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cover -- frontespizio -- indice -- Introduzione -- Primo Capitolo - I confini tra stato e mercato (M. Bonasia) -- Secondo capitolo - Inefficienze di mercato ed intervento pubblico (Mariangela Bonasia e Marcella D'Uva) -- Terzo Capitolo - Fallimenti di mercato: mercati non concorrenziali, beni pubblici e asimmetrie informative (Mariangela Bonasia e Marcella D'Uva) -- Quarto Capitolo - Fallimenti di mercato: le esternalità (Mariangela Bonasia e Marcella D'Uva) -- Quinto Capitolo - Potere di mercato: determinanti, inefficienze ed intervento pubblico (Marcella D'Uva) -- Sesto Capitolo - Politiche della concorrenza (Marcella D'Uva) -- Settimo Capitolo - Normativa della politica della concorrenza (Marcella D'Uva) -- Ottavo Capitolo - La protezione sociale (Mariangela Bonasia) -- Nono Capitolo - Le politiche pensionistiche (Mariangela Bonasia) -- Bibliografia -- finito di stampare

This paper investigates the economic and non‐economic determinants of interregional migration for unskilled and skilled migrants in Italy for the period 1985–2006. In addition to the traditional variables of the Harris and Todaro model, we consider the impact of house prices, carbon dioxide emission and crime. Using a dynamic two‐step panel generalized method of moments, the traditional model omits some important variables and may not be representative of migration flow. Our analysis confirms that for different periods we have to take into account different determinants. Moreover, the externalities are significant, indicating the importance of including broader quality of life as explanatory variables.

The paper investigates the role of economic indicators as determinants of trust in the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission (EC) and the European Parliament (EP) in eleven countries of the Eurozone, from 1999 to 2013, using country level data from the European Commission's Eurobarometer survey. This paper aims to shed light particularly on the role played by income distribution, together with standard economic indicators such as unemployment and inflation, in the consolidation of supranational institutions. The empirical analysis also controls for financial market shocks, including domestic bond yields and stock market returns. The additional contribution is to analyze whether the sensitiveness of trust is strengthen during the recent crisis, associating binary dummies to explanatory variables. The main conclusions can be summarized as follows: a) income inequality negatively affects trust in the EC and the EP in normal times; in crisis times, this relation is strengthened and extended to the ECB for one of the two indexes of trust considered; b) inflation and unemployment significantly affect trust in all European Institutions after the crisis DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.27.1.12581

PurposeMaking citizens able to monitor and evaluate public spending activities is a fundamental issue in public financial management literature. The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether fiscal transparency, measured by the Open Budget Index, has an effect on public spending performance, measured by the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report data.Design/methodology/approachResearch methods rely on random-effects panel regression models on a country-level panel data set of 82 world countries observed in the 2008–2015 time interval.FindingsResults show that the potential positive effects of fiscal transparency are mediated by the level of democracy of the country. In detail, in democratic countries, a higher degree of disclosure of fiscal information is correlated with a higher efficiency of government spending while, in non-democratic countries, fiscal transparency does not seem to provide any effect.Social implicationsThe results suggest that fiscal transparency can be a powerful device where politicians can be held accountable for their actions, while it could fail to provide positive results where a strong and effective vertical accountability is missing.Originality/valueThe novelty of the paper is twofold. First, it provides new additional evidence about the positive effect that fiscal transparency has on public spending efficiency by advancing previous research on this topic (Porumbescu, 2017; Monteset al., 2019). Second, the paper investigates conceptually and empirically how the positive effect on public spending efficiency determined by fiscal transparency depends on the degree of democracy present in the institutional environment in which fiscal information disclosure is implemented.