Download or read book Regulatory Reforms in Italy written by Dieter Kerwer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. The question this thesis attempts to answer is summarized as follows: what accounts for the amazing stability of Italian transport policy in the face of European challenges, given the fact that - as most national and European policy-makers readily believe - it is not capable of addressing the problem of the sector? This study analyzes the transport policy in Italy from the 1990s into the 21st century. It looks at how the two sub-sectors of surface transport, road haulage and raliways, have been managed by the public and private actors involved. In both sectors the policy appears to have failed, either by not offering a remedy to problems or by aggravating them further. The author believes that studying transport policy in Italy will shed light on the wider question of how national policy-making patterns are influenced by developments in the international environment; in this case looking closely at the influence of the European Union.

Download or read book Sectoral Regulatory Reforms in Italy written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Regulatory Reforms in Italian Local Public Services written by Magda Bianco and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper summarizes the framework used in a research project on local public services carried out by Bank of Italy researchers. It discusses motivations, characteristics, results and general lessons of the project, whose sector-specific results are detailed in individual papers. The project was set up to analyze the effectiveness and outcomes of a set of reforms initiated approximately 15 years ago (but still unfinished in many respects). Studies of specific economically important and socially sensitive sectors were performed, to obtain an updated picture of the current framework (ownership structure, role of local authorities) and evaluate performance (market structure, costs and quality, profitability, environmental results). A set of horizontal studies (on the evolution of regulation, the spread of project financing, the growth of some large players) complemented the sectoral analyses. As a whole the project confirmed that the results of the reforms have been unsatisfactory. The paper also discusses some characteristics of the regulatory framework and market structures that could explain the reforms' poor results: a) insufficient attention to sectoral peculiarities in the regulatory design; b) the approach used in determining tariffs that should have covered full costs; c) excessively fragmented regulatory authorities, which were set up at too local a level; d) insufficient separation between the different roles played by local authorities as regulators, majority shareholders of service providers and representatives of consumers' interests.

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Italy 2007 Ensuring Regulatory Quality across Levels of Government written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review analyses the institutional set-up for multi-level regulation, the specifics of power sharing between the State and the regions, as well as the horizontal and vertical co-ordination mechanisms in place in the country, before turning to their use in the four specific regions.

Download or read book Lessons from Two Public Sector Reforms in Italy written by Nazim Belhocine and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reform of the Italian public administration has been a priority for at least two decades, with several major initiatives undertaken toward modernization and simplification. Notwithstanding laudable intentions, however, progress remains limited. This analysis is a case study of two reforms since 2016—on the rationalization of state-owned enterprises and of public procurement. It finds that original reform provisions were weakened or overturned, regulatory complexity and uncertainties in the application of the reforms blunted their impact, and enforcement mechanisms were inadequate. Addressing these gaps will be essential for successfully modernizing Italy’s public administration.

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Reform in Italy 2001 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD's 2001 review of regulatory reform in Italy.

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Italy 2009 Better Regulation to Strengthen Market Dynamics written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of regulatory reform in Italy presents a general picture of the overall regulatory reform frameworks in Italy, examining quality regulation, competition policy and professional services. The review also offers a special focus on multi-level governance.

Download or read book Sectoral Regulatory Reforms in Italy written by Alessandro Goglio and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State Market and Social Regulation written by Peter Lange and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume provide a systematic analysis of the contemporary means of regulation employed in a range of economic and social policy areas in Italy.

Download or read book Sectoral Regulatory Reforms in Italy written by Alessandro Goglio and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Regulatory Reform in Italy written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD's 2001 review of regulatory reform in Italy.

Download or read book Better Regulation in Europe Italy 2012 Revised edition June 2013 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of regulation in Italy maps and analyses the core issues which together make up effective regulatory management, laying down a framework of what should be driving regulatory policy and reform in the future. Issues examined include ...

Download or read book Regulatory Reform in Italy written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Liberalization and Regulatory Reform of Public Utilities in Italy written by Alberto Asquer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to contribute investigating the difficulties to reap the intended benefits of policy reforms to liberalize and re-regulate network industries. This issue is tackled through the 'theoretical lenses' of new institutional economics, in particular by following the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. The study is a comparative analysis of the effects of liberalization and regulatory reforms of network industries within the same country context. In Italy, various reforms of network industries have been made and implemented during the 1990s and 2000s, especially in water, gas, electricity, telecommunications, railways, highways, local public transports, and urban solid waste. These reforms resulted in changes of regulatory institutions and industry structures, but they generally led to modest changes in competitive pressures and industry performance. This analysis suggests that the difficulty to implement liberalization and regulatory reforms of network industries in Italy may be explained by various concurrent mechanisms, which relate to the rent-seeking behavior of the actors of the industry's community, the rise of barriers to entry against competitors, and the adoption of collusive practices between regulators and regulated. This study suggests some tentative generalizations concerning the effectiveness of reforms intended to open up network industries to competitive pressures.

Download or read book The Impact of Product Market Reforms on Firm Productivity in Italy written by Mr.Sergi Lanau and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the role of removing obstacles to competition in product markets in raising growth and productivity. Using firm-level data from Italy during 2003–13 and OECD measures of product market regulation, we estimate the effect of deregulation in network sectors on value added and productivity of firms in these sectors, as well as firms using these intermediates in their production processes. We find evidence of a significant positive impact. These effects are more pronounced in Italian provinces with more efficient public administration, underscoring the complementarities of advancing public administration and product market reforms simultaneously.

Download or read book Italian Institutional Reforms A Public Choice Perspective written by Fabio Padovano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few established European democracies have undergone as much change as Italy in recent years, and here is a book that explores precisely what has been achieved – from a public choice perspective. The book pays particular attention to, among others, the introduction of the EURO, the reform of voting from proportional to majoritarian rule, and the switch from a highly centralized government to a federal organization.

Download or read book Identifying Service Market Reform Priorities in Italy written by Nazim Belhocine and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy’s labor productivity in market services has declined since 2000, underperforming manufacturing and peer European countries, especially in strongly regulated sectors. A model of monopolistic competition is used to identify which service sectors would benefit more from removing entry and/or exit barriers. Using Italian firm-level data, the paper finds that sectors with high markups, such as professional services, would primarily benefit from removing entry barriers. Sectors with a large mass of unproductive firms, such as retail, would instead benefit from removing exit barriers. Policy recommendations to improve efficiency are outlined in relation to the sectoral priorities identified in the data.