Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giuseppe Vitaletti Title: Problemi e potenzialit? della riforma pensionistica del 1995 in un confronto tra modelli previdenziali stilizzati Abstract: Problemi e potenzialit? della riforma pensionistica del 1995 in un confronto tra modelli previdenziali stilizzati (di Giuseppe Vitaletti) - ABSTRACT: The debate over the characteristics of the social security system in Italy revolves around four basic models: a) the contribution defined fully funded scheme, which has oriented the outset of government?s intervention on the pension front in the first half of the twentieth century; b) the benefit defined pay-as-you-go scheme, which has dominated in the second half of the century; c) the contribution defined pay-as-you-go scheme, which was introduced by the 1995 reform to be fully operative after some decades in the new century, and which constitutes a typology adopted for the first time in the world; d) the benefit defined fully funded scheme, which has been recently proposed authoritatively in a fascinating way to change the national social security more incisively than it has been done in 1995. In the paper the four models are set forth in a stylized manner, by first framing the basic distinction between the fully funded and the pay-as-you-go typologies and by considering the two possibilities (the contribution defined method and the benefit defined one) to run both of them. They are then confronted and evaluated especially with regard to three profiles: 1) the advantages (comprehensive of riskiness) that workers perceive by confronting the returns they would receive from the same payments made either to the government or to private insurance companies; 2) the degree of ridistribution among incomes which is possible to pursue in each scheme; 3) the comparative capability to stabilize expenditures, with the aim of impeding that the ratio of social security outlays over GDP becomes excessive. It is shown that the great confidence in obtaining simultaneously the three targets at a high level, improving the situation very much with respect to the pre-1995 system, is not well founded whatever perspective is adopted: either that of the supporters of the 1995 reform or that of the advocates of a benefit defined fully funded scheme. Finally it is concluded that the best solution is perhaps a compromise between the two possible configurations of pay-as-you-go, on one side by maintaining and fostering some aspects of the 1995 reform, on the other side by reintroducing some characteristics of the pre-1995 model in a new operating fashion. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/4 Year: 2000 Issue:4 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=14576&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2000-004001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Massimo Filippini Author-Name: Roberto Fazioli Author-Name: Jorg Wild Title: La stima di una funzione di costo medio per potenziare l'efficacia della yardstick regulation nel settore della distribuzione di energia elettrica: una sperimentazione sul caso svizzero Abstract: La stima di una funzione di costo medio per potenziare l?efficacia della yardstick regulation nel settore della distribuzione di energia elettrica: una sperimentazione sul caso svizzero (di Roberto Fazioli, Massimo Filippini e J?rg Wild) - ABSTRACT: In this paper we have examined the cost structure of a sample of Swiss electricity distribution utilities. To do so, we have considered estimation of an average cost model. A log-log cost function was estimated using panel data for a sample of 45 municipal utilities over the period 1992-1996. The results indicate the existence of economies of output and customer density and economies of scale. Moreover, the regulator could use the average cost function estimated in this paper for yardstick regulation of the network access prices. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/4 Year: 2000 Issue:4 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=14577&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2000-004002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bernardo Maggi Title: Un'analisi della spesa e della struttura della pubblica istruzione nel contesto della riforma scolastica Abstract: Un?analisi della spesa e della struttura della pubblica istruzione nel contesto della riforma scolastica (di Bernardo Maggi) - ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the structure of the public education as far as secondary school is concerned for the Italian case. The empirical study is based on a geographic and econometric approach in order to evaluate the reform process of the school towards the autonomy as well. Data and administrative rules tell us that an ad hoc authority is necessary to implement the reform. Specifically this authority must support the quasi-market of the education where schools gain flexibility (released from bounding and inefficent rules) comparing with the actual local authorities, which manage resources such as funds, human and physical capital. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/4 Year: 2000 Issue:4 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=14578&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2000-004003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fabrizia Lapecorella Author-Name: Antonio Giuffrida Author-Name: Giacomo Pignataro Title: Organizzazione dell'assistenza ospedaliera: analisi dell'efficienza delle aziende ospedaliere e dei presidi ospedalieri Abstract: Organizzazione dell?assistenza ospedaliera: analisi dell?efficienza delle aziende ospedaliere e dei presidi ospedalieri (di Antonio Giuffrida, Fabrizia Lapecorella e Giacomo Pignataro) - ABSTRACT: The reforms of the Italian National Health Service have been characterised by the attempt to introduce competition in the production of health services. The implementation of competition requires a split between the purchasing and the producing functions. Italy has adopted a mixed solution, reaffirmed by the very recent reform. Independent providers have been created, like Aziende Ospedaliere, but USLs (Local Health Authorities) still retain direct production functions. Focusing on hospitals, the paper compares the technical efficiency of Aziende Ospedaliere, which represent an example of a complete split between purchasers and providers, and Presidi Ospedalieri, which are instead integrated into the purchasing authority USL. Efficiency is measured, through Data Envelopment Analysis, using data for all the public hospitals operating in Lombardia in 1996. Our empirical results show that Aziende Ospedaliere have, on average, higher efficiency than Presidi Ospedalieri, with the difference in performance being due to the pure technical component. Some intuition for the result is provided. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/4 Year: 2000 Issue:4 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=14579&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2000-004004 Number: 4