During the last decade the Italian system of intergovernmental fiscal relations has been involved in a radical process of reform that is still under way. The reform has assigned to Regions a mix of new autonomous taxes and the sharing of national taxes, has abolished discretionary transfers and...

This paper provides estimates of the redistribution and risk sharing across regional jurisdictions accomplished by the public sector in Italy. In this analysis the multi-level structure of the Italian government and the financial relations which link the different layers of government are...

In this paper we explore how political pressures for an increased decentralisation of revenue and expenditure competencies to sub-national governments may affect the degree of interregional redistribution accomplished by the public sector. We do this by focusing on a specific case, that of the...