Italian Abstract: Il volume sintetizza i risultati del progetto di ricerca “Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico sull’economia italiana”. Il progetto si compone di 17 lavori di ricerca che (a) misurano l’impatto delle variazioni climatiche sull’attività economica, in particolare di...

We perform a cost-benefit analysis of the green investments contained in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). We compute the future discounted benefits in terms of expected emission reductions using various estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon, and compare them with the...

This article documents a positive and sizable correlation between the location of historical Christian missions and the allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of geographical and historical control variables that...

First-past-the-post elections in single-member districts make legislators more accountable to their district of election compared to proportional electoral systems. Accountability makes politicians more sensitive to voters' preferences when deciding where and how to allocate public expenditure,...

This paper provides a sufficient statistics framework to study the design of optimal targeted social insurance in the presence of manipulation opportunities, through which individuals select into policies not intended for them. We apply our framework to Italian unemployment insurance (UI), which...

We study the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in Italy over a period of almost forty years, until 2021. The size of gross job flows was large and in line with other developed economies. Every year, around 13 per cent of jobs are created and 12 per cent are destroyed. Most of this...