This work aims at investigating the changes in technical efficiency following the privatization of 39 Italian medium-sized firms operating in competitive sectors. Using Data Envelopment Analysis over a period of 10 years we highlight that, apart from acquisitions by foreign groups, there have...

Nel processo di riorganizzazione del servizio idrico italiano, imposto dalla "Legge Galli", il Comitato per la Vigilanza sull’uso delle Risorse Idriche presso il Ministero del Tesoro ha proposto la formulazione di un metodo normalizzato per la determinazione della tariffa. Il presente lavoro...

[This paper analyses the technological characteristics of a sample of Italian electric municipal firms. The standard partial productivity approach is integrated with total factor productivity measures based on Data Envelopment Analysis. Main results can be summarised as follows: i) small firms...

The analysis of the technology and costs of the gas distribution networks highlights that the number of customers is more important than the amount of gas delivered, as well as the absence of economies of scale, the presence of economies of density and the significant role of the morphologic and...

The Italian electric supplying activity has been concentrated in the hands of a State company (ENEL) since 1963, when private firms were nationalised. Since then, for nearly three decades the sector has been nm tmder a nearly absolute monopoly. Tue first innovations were approved in 1982,but...

The potential of tourism-based activities to help achieve environmental preservation and conservation has been recognised. Events are frequently identified in plans for destination development and promoted as an attractor for leisure activity visitors. Festivals and events might be considered a...