pt. 1. The Italian environment of waste management : spatial analyses, convergence, illegal markets and policy assessments -- pt. 2. The international setting : waste trade drivers, convergence and policy making in spatial-framed environments.

The main objective of this article is to evaluate to which extent the set of national and regional cost control policies implemented in recent years in Italy have affected hospital activity. Our contribution is mainly empirical as we focus our attention on the impact that policies like hospital...