A reflection on the role of political variables and institutional aspects for identifying the determinants underlying the dynamics of spending, taxing, and borrowing by local governments is particularly urgent for Italy, in the light of the ongoing decentralization process. Moreover, for the Italian case, the empirical evidence is still sparse and fragmentary. The workshop was aimed at filling this gap. Several papers on the political economy of local public finance were discussed, with a focus on the Italian institutional peculiarities. The results should be helpful in informing the public debate and public policies on these issues in the next years.
Pigou or Hobbes? Budgetary choices of local governments in ItalyRome, 14-15 November 2011
programme
- Programmepdf 346.2 KB Publish date::12 March 2012
Session I
- Maura Francese, Massimiliano Piacenza, Marzia Romanelli, Gilberto Turati: Understanding inappropriateness in Health Carepdf 305.0 KB The Case of Caesarean Deliveries across Italian Regions Publish date::12 March 2012
- Massimiliano Rigon, Giulia M. Tanzi: Does gender matter for public spending? Empirical evidence from Italian municipalitiespdf 241.5 KB Publish date::12 March 2012
- Alfredo Bardozzetti ed Emilio Vadalà: Il finanziamento degli investimenti dei Comuni: vincoli di bilancio e ricorso al debitopdf 589.1 KB Publish date::12 March 2012
- Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini, Ugo Troiano: Do Fiscal Rules Matter? A Difference-in-Discontinuities Designpdf 2.0 MB Publish date::12 March 2012
- Silvia Scozzese, Salvatore Parlato, Stefano Croella: Il Patto di Stabilità Internopdf 452.6 KB Un’analisi dell’overshooting dell’obiettivo nel biennio 2009-2010. Quali prospettive per il Patto di Stabilità regionalizzato? (text only in Italian) Publish date::12 March 2012
Session II
- Agnese Sacchi, Simone Salotti: The effects of fiscal decentralization on household income inequality: some empirical evidencepdf 216.1 KB Publish date::12 March 2012
- Domenico Depalo, Giovanna Messina: Follow the Herd. Spatial Interactions in Tax Setting Behaviour of Italian Municipalitiespdf 145.7 KB Publish date::12 March 2012
- Massimo Bordignon, Matteo Gamalerio, GilbertoTurati: Fiscal Federalism and Political Selection: Evidence From Italypdf 232.8 KB Publish date::12 March 2012
- Leonzio Rizzo, Alberto Zanardi: Coalition list (or of lists): does it matter for fiscal policies? Evidence from Italypdf 588.3 KB Publish date::12 March 2012
- Raffaella Santolini: Do electoral rules and elections matter for expenditure composition?pdf 332.0 KB An empirical analysis on Italian regions using the fragmentation index Publish date::12 March 2012
- Chiara Dalle Nogare, Matteo M. Galizzi: The Political Economy of Cultural Spending: Evidence from Italian Citiespdf 598.7 KB Publish date::12 March 2012
- Marika Cioffi, Giovanna Messina, Pietro Tommasino: Parties, institutions and political budget cycles at municipal levelpdf 319.4 KB An evidence from Italy Publish date::12 March 2012
