Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carlo Buratti Title: I fabbisogni di spesa degli enti locali. Le stime effettuate dal Ministero dell'Interno in applicazione della legge 133/1999 Abstract: I fabbisogni di spesa degli enti locali. Le stime effettuate dal Ministero dell?Interno in applicazione della legge 133/1999 (di Carlo Buratti) - ABSTRACT: Act n. 133/1999 delegated the Government to reform the system of grants to Local Governments. A Governmental Commission has been working in Rome in the late months of 1999 to produce an appropriation formula which met the requirements of the delegation Act. Among other things, the Commission produced estimates of Local Governments? needs based on data of all Municipalities and Provinces but those of the three Regions having special autonomy statutes and direct responsibility for Local Finances. Needs were estimated by multiple regression technique separately for Municipalities and Provinces, for both basic services (?servizi indispensabili?) and the overall bundle of services. Regressors were a bundle of demographic, socio-economic and territorial variables thought to influence need. Results were analysed for a sample of 515 Municipalities and all Provinces and show large residuals for a high number of Governments which might make difficult to implement the grant reform without additional resources; e.g. Campania and Basilicata have a large proportion of Municipalities with standard expenditure below actual expenditure. The paper addresses attention to a number of technical points, as the circularity problem which is often deemed to negatively affect estimates, and distortions generated by specific grants, later consolidated in general grants, which benefited Local Governments within certain areas. The paper also thoroughly analyses per capita expenditure for basic services, basic and widespread services and all services, questioning the opportunity of basing the equalisation process on basic services only. JEL H71, H77 Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2001/6 Year: 2001 Issue:6 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=16992&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2001-006001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fabrizio Balassone Author-Name: Stefania Zotteri Title: Il Patto di stabilit? interno due anni dopo: norme pi? morbide, risultati pi? deludenti Abstract: Il Patto di stabilit? interno due anni dopo: norme pi? ?morbide?, risultati pi? deludenti (di Fabrizio Balassone e Stefania Zotteri) - ABSTRACT: A Domestic Stability Pact (DSP) has been introduced in Italy in 1998, in order to involve Regions and other local authorities in the effort to attain the objectives set for the budget of the general government under the European Stability and Growth Pact. The paper analyses how the legal framework of the DSP has evolved since its introduction. It is argued that while certain features of the DSP were ill-suited to the goal it pursued from the start, subsequent adjustments have further weakened the DSP: on the one hand, they have reduced the credibility of the budget constraint introduced by the DSP; on the other hand, they have made the DSP constraint more slack. The paper also carries out an assessment of the results obtained by the DSP in 1999 and 2000: a)local government net lending displays a dynamic divergent from the one of the DSP balances; b) as for Regions, actual DSP deficits were higher than targeted in both years, in spite of the weakening of constraints; c) as for Provinces and Municipalities, while the actual deficit was better than targeted in 1999 (by some 3 trillion lire), it was just in line with the targets in 2000, thanks mainly to the changes introduced in the DSP. This results must be regarded as preliminary as they are partly based on estimates for 2000; the delay with which final data on the DSP deficit become available witnesses another weakness of the DSP, i.e. the difficulty met in monitoring its implementation both during and at the end of the year. JEL C70 E61 H50 Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2001/6 Year: 2001 Issue:6 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=16993&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2001-006002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maurizio Bovi Author-Name: Laura Castellucci Title: Cosa sappiamo dell'economia sommersa in Italia al di l? dei luoghi comuni? Alcune proposizioni empiricamente fondate Abstract: Cosa sappiamo dell?economia sommersa in Italia al di l? dei luoghi comuni? Alcune proposizioni empiricamente fondate (di Maurizio Bovi e Laura Castellucci) - ABSTRACT: It is commonly thought that the underground economy is larger in Italy than in most other developed countries and that it is growing. Using several methods of measuring it we find no sound empirical support for such view but rather that the underground economy seems to fluctuate around a stable mean. We find instead confirmation of the widespread view of a larger underground economy in the southern Regions of the country than in the center-north. We develop an appropriate methodology for arriving at size estimations by Regions. Finally we claim that the differences between the south and the center-north are not limited to the size of the underground economy but extend to its nature and motivations, thus reaffirming the dualism of the country and calling for regional, as opposed to national, policy interventions. JEL O17, E60, H26 Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2001/6 Year: 2001 Issue:6 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=16994&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2001-006003 Number: 3