Italian municipalities
The issue of immigrants in Italy: a rational model of immigration management by Italian municipalities
... stressed, municipalities, in modifying the rate of change of immigration flows, must further take into account the level of rigidities exercised by both local residents and firms, who hence affect the process of ...
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Rules, discretion and quality of government : evidence from Italian municipalities
... that municipalities below and above the 5000 threshold have dif- ferent levels of education in their ...ian municipalities and the same reform exploited in this chapter, have already shown that fiscal rules ...
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Spatial interaction in local expenditures among Italian municipalities: evidence from Italy 2001-2011
... of Italian municipalities, such that a one-euro increase in the average expenditure of the neighbors generates, ceteris paribus, an increase in the expenditure of municipality i of ...
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Fiscal Rules and the Opportunistic Behaviour of the Incumbent Politician: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
... 246 Italian municipalities located in the Marche ...2001, Italian municipalities with a popula- tion lower than 5000 people have been excluded from the DSP, they represents 27% of our ...
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Do citizens hold mayors accountable for local conditions? Evidence from Italian municipalities
... big Italian municipalities between 2010 and 2015, this paper looks at the extent to which citizens' evaluations of mayors are responsive to changes in local performance ...of municipalities where ...
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Italian municipalities and the politics of financial derivatives: rethinking the Foucauldian perspective
... of Italian municipalities and their controversial use of interest rate swaps during the 2000-2014 ...– Italian municipalities entered the swaps market en masse as a political-strategic move ...
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Italian municipalities' NPFM reforms: an institutional theory perspective
... on municipalities with more than 40,000 inhabitants (Anessi Pessina and Caccia, 2000; Anessi Pessina and Steccolini, 2001, 2005, 2007; Buccoliero et ...small municipalities (De Matteis and Preite, ...the ...
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NPM Reforms in Napoleonic Countries: A Comparative Study of Management Accounting Innovations in Greek and Italian Municipalities
... and Italian municipalities is an accounting reform given by ...in Italian local governments, arguing that the coexistence delays the implementation of the new ...why Italian and Greek ...
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Why does social capital increase government performance? The role of local elections across Italian municipalities
... Considering our previous analysis, we illustrate now our contribution by stating the two main research hypotheses. First, we look at whether higher social capital increases the re- election probability of an incumbent ...
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Determinants of Fiscal Distress in Italian Municipalities
... Our analysis merges different source of information. The first one relies on an Italian database for public administration from the Ministry of the Interior, 2 which includes Municipalities budget data. We ...
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Does gender matter for public spending? Empirical evidence from Italian municipalities
... Before empirically address the role of gender in political decisions, we firstly look to the existence of differences in preferences between men and women. In fact, if there are no differences, there is no reason to ...
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Incumbency, turnout, and impact of legislature size on government spending : evidence from Italian municipalities
... by Italian law (according to this law -DL 25 March 1993, ...separately municipalities located in the Center- South and in the northern part of Italy, the negative effect persists only for ...
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The effect of council size on municipal expenditures: evidence from Italian municipalities
... The Municipal Budget (Bilancio di Previsione) is the main instrument used to plan the economic and financial management of local governments in which all of the information on total inflows and outflows (Spese ed Entrate ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES POLITICS 2.0: THE MULTIFACETED EFFECT OF BROADBAND INTERNET ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
... across Italian municipalities, between 2005 and 2011, to analyze how access to high-speed internet affected individuals’ decisions with regard to different forms of political ...
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Electoral rules and voter turnout
... the municipalities below the population threshold) or the first round (for those above the threshold, with a dual ballot in ...the Italian municipalities, for most of which turnout data is available ...
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How sticky are local expenditures in Italy? Assessing the relevance of the “flypaper effect” through municipal data
... An extensive literature analyses the impact of upper-tier transfers on the spending behaviour of lower level governments. According to the median voter framework, a transfer from the centre should act as a lump sum grant ...
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March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident impacts on Japanese agri food sector
... In the rest of the affected municipalities there was no progress 11.6% or even a reduction 18.6% in the agricultural output, including in 58.3% of the damaged municipalities in Iwate pre[r] ...
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Open data within municipalities: Does cooperation between municipalities on the topic of open data improve the provision of open data by municipalities? A case study involving Dutch Municipalities
... between municipalities on the topic of open data and the provision of open data does actually ...that municipalities within the phase of data collection and publication and within the external phase, were ...
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Financial resources of municipalities in Turkey
... Municipalities can be aided with grants which have general and special purpose. General aids: There is no limit or requirement about spending of such assistance to where, how, and in what way. Aim is to strengthen ...
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Gone with the wind? The impact of wind turbines on tourism demand
... German municipalities are relatively small with an average area corresponding to a circle with slightly more than a 3 km ...Few municipalities exceed a 10-km ...of municipalities, we take their wider ...
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