Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marco Missaglia Author-Name: Franco Osculati Title: De-Tax e Tobin Tax Abstract: De-Tax e Tobin Tax (di Marco Missaglia, Franco Osculati) - ABSTRACT: The Italian government has recently proposed the introduction of the so called De-Tax (or A-Tax) as a tool to fund more enerously development and anti-poverty programs in poor countries. The basic idea is simple: if the seller of a given good or service decides to devote a fraction of her proceeds to some development, humanitarian purpose, he will be supported by the government through a reduction in indirect taxation (VAT). Basically, the De-Tax adds to the already existent incentives to ?virtuous? behaviours, which operate through direct taxation, a further incentive operating through indirect taxation. In the paper we analyse some of the implications associated to this new mechanism, and we try to understand whether the De-Tax could be thought of as a good substitute for the Tobin Tax, the other well-known proposal on the policy arena. It will be elucidated that the idea of the De-Tax has both advantages and disadvantages compared to the current situation. On the one hand, being a mechanism based on indirect taxation, it introduces some more distorsions in the process of resources? allocation; on the other, it is likely to make generous behaviours a bit less costly, to make the transaction costs associated to ethical behaviours much lower than they are under the current fiscal regime. As to the comparison with the Tobin Tax, we will argue why it does not make a lot of sense. The De-Tax is intended to promote a virtuous behaviour, whereas the Tobin Tax is thought of as a way of discouraging a vicious behaviour; the De-Tax can be seen as a subsidy introduced to deal with a positive externality, whilst the Tobin Tax should be conceptualised as a tax to mitigate a (financial) market failure. In a well-designed fiscal system there may be some room for both these tools. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2003/5 Year: 2003 Issue:5 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=20626&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2003-005001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Franco Amisano Title: La corruzione amministrativa in una burocrazia di tipo concorrenziale: modelli di analisi economica Abstract: Franco Amisano (di Franco Amisano) - ABSTRACT: The paper analyses the administrative corruption in a bureaucracy whose officials have overlapping jurisdictions (competitive bureaucracy). Analysis has been performed through models of demand and supply of the services provided by officials accepting bribes. Diffusion of corruption in the bureaucracy and possible equilibrium situations have been examined through models introducing several probability densities for the corruption costs of the individual bureaucrats. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2003/5 Year: 2003 Issue:5 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=20627&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2003-005002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Limosani Author-Name: Dario Maimone Author-Name: Ansaldo Patti Author-Name: Pietro Navarra Title: Il rapporto di agenzia tra elettori ed eletti e gli effetti di Mani pulite sulle decisioni di politica economica locale Abstract: Il rapporto di agenzia tra elettori ed eletti e gli effetti di Mani pulite sulle decisioni di politica economica locale (di Michele Limosani, Dario Maimone, Ansaldo Patti, Pietro Navarra) - ABSTRACT: Did the judicial operation of Mani puliteaffect local policy decisions? The aim of this study is to provide an answer to this question. We describe the relationship between voters and elected representatives in a simple principal-agent setting. We use this framework to develop a theory analysing the impact produced by tighter judicial controls on this agency relationship. Our theoretical model allows us to formulate some hypotheses on the possible policy consequences associated to the judicial interventions in the Tangentopoliyears. Our theoretical hypotheses are then tested empirically. The results of the empirical investigation tell us that higher monitoring in the form of tighter judicial controls crowded-out public investment spending at local level. This effect, however, was not uniformly distributed across Italian regions. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2003/5 Year: 2003 Issue:5 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=20628&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2003-005003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marco Percoco Title: L'efficienza tecnica nel settore dei servizi idrici Abstract: L'efficienza tecnica nel settore dei servizi idrici (di Marco Percoco) - ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical assessment of technical efficiency in the Italian water service industry. After providing a descriptive framework for production technology, financial variables and liberalisation process, technical efficiency by stochastic production frontier is estimated over a sample of 83 municipal firms. A 28% of inefficiency is found and its determinants are shown. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2003/5 Year: 2003 Issue:5 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=20629&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2003-005004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claudio Jommi Author-Name: Stefano Villa Author-Name: Simone Gerzeli Title: Politiche regionali e variabilit? della spesa farmaceutica convenzionata Abstract: Politiche regionali e variabilit? della spesa farmaceutica convenzionata (di Simone Gerzeli, Claudio Jommi, Stefano Villa) - ABSTRACT: The research aims at evaluating the relationship between different regional policies and the cross-regional variability in the public per capitapharmaceutical expenditure. This relationship was matched with the effects of other variables, that affect the demand for and the supply of drugs but are not (or are only partially) influenced by regional actions (including population age structure and socio-economic conditions, morbidity, hospitalisation rates, pressure of pharmaceutical companies? reps, GP and pharmacy density). The study is based on a qualitative and a quantitative approach. Regional policies on pharmaceuticals have been surveyed through a qualitative checklist. The explicative variables of the cross-regional variability in the pharmaceutical expenditure has been investigated through a multiple regression model. Cross-regional variability in the pharmaceutical expenditure proved to be explained related with differences among regional policies and partly with other variables This result may prove that (i) on the one side, regional policies may contribute to cost-containment; (ii) on the other side, cross-regional variability does not depend only on regional and local policies (and the effects of these policies on the appropriateness of demand for and prescriptions of drugs); (iii) should regions present the same (high) level of maturity as far as pharmaceutical policy is concerned, the cross-regional variability in the pharmaceutical expenditure would still remain rather high. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2003/5 Year: 2003 Issue:5 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=20630&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/Ep2003-005005 Number: 5