School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different reasons than quality considerations. On the other side, by exploiting individual data on voucher...

La legge 17 Maggio n. 144 del 1999 richiedeva a tutte le amministrazioni centrali e regionali in Italia di dotarsi di un nucleo di valutazione degli investimenti pubblici a supporto dell'attività di programmazione "con la finalità di migliorare e... dare maggiore qualità ed efficienza al...

We characterise the conditions for the existence of a mixed system of finance and provision of health-care by a social planner and a private market coexists. Private insurance/provision and public health-care provision cannot be consumed together, each individual has a certain probability of...

Income per capita is an important and hence widely used measure in the construction of social welfare weights. This paper, however, aims to discuss the construction of social welfare weights based not merely on Income per capita but on equally distributed equivalent income (EDEI). For example,...

The aim of this paper is to present an approach for solving the Stochastic Multi-Objective Programming (SMOP) through the Goal Programming (GP) model. We introduce a deterministic equivalent formulation and we show how GP can provide solutions to SMOP. The proposed method will be illustrated...

This paper focuses on the practical use of cost-benefit analysis (or, more generally, of monetary valuation and other decision-making tools) in environmental policymaking. Based on a questionnaire sent to Environmental Ministries of OECD member countries, a review of the use of such analysis in...

Wagner's Law would imply an exponential growth process of the ratio between public expenditures and national income (G/Y). However the law may be rejected both on theoretical and empirical reasons, because it disregards the role of ever increasing distortionary taxation. But, under...

Starting from the original definitions of Iterated Function Systems (IFS) and Iterated Function Systems with Probabilities (IFSP) we introduce the notions of Iterated Multifunction Systems (IMS) and Iterated Multifunction Systems with Probabilities (IMSP). We consider the IMS and IMSP as...

From the beginning of the 1990s, the business world has been talking about Knowledge Management (KM). Information Technologies (network technologies and local databases) have provided new tools to better perform the activity of using (codify and store) and sharing knowledge (modern Knowledge...