Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Agnese Sacchi Author-Name: Raffaella Santolini Title: La revisione della spesa pubblica "made in Italy" Abstract: The control of public spending in Italy started to be experienced in the Eighties and it has evolved into a process of spending review characterized by a variety of approaches and a number of key figures appointed to implement such policy interventions. The main consequence of the heterogeneous nature of these spending review exercises was a difficult achievement of the efficiency targets in public expenditure revision. The experience of the Italian spending review was also notable for substantial linear cuts to the public budget and for the attitude to frequently assign "outside" - often beyond the political boundary - the guidance of the spending review process. On the one hand, this approach has been justified by the will of exploiting high technical skills on that ground. On the other hand, it has often undermined the assumption of political responsibility by governments on specific areas of intervention and on the identification of the best tools to achieve the political objectives related to the re-allocation and rationalization of public spending in Italy. Classification-JEL: H1, H5, H6 Keywords: Note: Pages:5-11 Volume: 2015/1 Year: 2015 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=54575&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2015-001001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gilberto Muraro Title: La prima esperienza di Spending Review in Italia Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the first experience of the Spending Review in Italy, which took place between April 2007 and May 2008 through the work of a specific Commission (Technical Commission on Public Finance), under the political guidance of the Minister of the Economy and Finance, Tommaso Padoa Schioppa. After recalling the meaning and the goals of the Spending Review, the paper illustrates the framework, the composition, the organization, the working methods and the main proposals of the Commission. The author concludes that, compared with following chapters of the story of the Spending Review in Italy, the first experience, rarely recalled in the political debate, is still offering valid indications as for the working methods and the policy proposals. Classification-JEL: H1, H5, H6, H7 Keywords: Note: Pages:13-30 Volume: 2015/1 Year: 2015 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=54576&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2015-001002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcello Degni Author-Name: Paolo De Ioanna Title: L?orologiaio e il tagliaboschi Abstract: The paper deals with the theme of the spending review from a methodological point of view and its intertwining with the budget decision. The thesis of the authors is that there is a strong link between economic growth and balance of public finance. And this connection is clouded by legal and accounting categories that can never be combined with a clear assessment of the objectives and financial results that the different sectorial policies aim to achieve. To argue this thesis is presented a reconstruction of the experience of spending review in Italy. The analysis reveals two distinct approaches: the dominant one, still widely prevalent, based on linear cuts, sometimes partially targeted, according to the moment and the persons called to identify them(which can be framed the period of Commissioners); the other, structural and fully integrated with the budget cycle, inaugurated by Ciampi in 1997 and taken over by Padoa Schioppa in 2006-2008. The objective of the SR, according to the authors, is not cut but innovate in depth to achieve public policies furthering development and productivity. The crucial question is the recombination of inputs (human and technical resources) in the territory and among the structures that articulate public policies. This requires a major reorganization of the administrative machinery. Classification-JEL: H11, H61, H72, H83 Keywords: Note: Pages:31-67 Volume: 2015/1 Year: 2015 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=54577&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2015-001003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniela Monacelli Author-Name: Aline Pennisi Title: Spending Review: una, nessuna, centomila Abstract: Internationally, spending reviews are increasingly considered to be the most appropriate tool to facilitate the reallocation and the reduction of public expenditure because they offer a path to improve the "rationality" of decisionmaking aimed at the achievement of the final goals of public intervention. However, the actual experiences are very diverse, difficult to encode, and change their features over time even in the same country, in response to the external environment. This paper presents the contribution expected in recent years from spending reviews in connection with the financial and economic crisis. It also describes the main features of a spending review, drawing considerations on the Italian case. In particular, it highlights the multiplicity of actions taken and the associated coordination problems, and it discusses the need to implement a tighter integration of the spending review in the budget process, signaling the difficulties encountered. Classification-JEL: H11, H61, H83 Keywords: Note: Pages:69-108 Volume: 2015/1 Year: 2015 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=54578&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2015-001004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Flavia Ambrosanio Author-Name: Paolo Balduzzi Author-Name: Massimo Bordignon Title: Who should review public spending? Abstract: Since the early ?80s of the last century, Italy has experienced different waves of spending reviews. The ideal aim of these processes is (at least) twofold: efficiency, namely to reach public goals at a lower cost, and effectiveness, that is, to clearly state priorities of public activity. Has any of the different reviews in Italy ever been successful? Even taking into account the most recent experience, it would be hard to reply affirmatively. So what are the sources of this long series of failures? And why international experience, on the contrary, seems to reach its goals? To answer, we review international experience, scientific literature, and provide a detailed story of the different attempts of spending reviews in Italy. Our conclusions are that lack of political will and lack of economic competence among Italian bureaucracy are the most likely causes: and that the appointment of external technocrats is not the solution, particularly under illdefined mandates. Classification-JEL: H5, H6 Keywords: Note: Pages:109-127 Volume: 2015/1 Year: 2015 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=54579&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2015-001005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adriano Giannola Author-Name: Riccardo Padovani Author-Name: Carmelo Petraglia Title: Spending Review e divari regionali in Italia Abstract: This paper deals with the asymmetric regional effects of austerity policies in Italy in the current crisis. We discuss how austerity has caused a substantial downsizing of interregional redistribution, thus amplifying the economic downturn in Southern regions. First, we look at the regional distribution of the cost of austerity in terms of both higher tax burden and cuts in public expenditure. Then, we focus on the declining pattern experienced by both public investment and industrial policy. Classification-JEL: H50, R10, R58 Keywords: Note: Pages:129-155 Volume: 2015/1 Year: 2015 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=54580&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2015-001006 Number: 6 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alessandro Petretto Title: Le specificit? dei processi di revisione della spesa pubblica locale Abstract: The article analyses the specific features of "spending review" procedures in medium-large Italian municipalities. The author recalls as the local public expenditures is oriented, more than in all other sectors of Public Administration, to directly enhance the welfare of citizens, and it has direct effects on potential growth of the local territory where the municipality is working. The work emphasizes the implications of spending review in terms of quantitative and qualitative levels of public service and in terms of investments on local infrastructures maintenance. It presents the case of Florence municipality that has applied spending review procedures in 2012 and 2013. Finally, it deals with the perspectives for these procedures by the public accountancy reform recently carried on in Italy. Classification-JEL: H11, H72, H83, R11 Keywords: Note: Pages:157-175 Volume: 2015/1 Year: 2015 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=54581&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2015-001007 Number: 7 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carlo Cottarelli Title: Ten lessons from the 2014 Italian spending review Abstract: This paper discusses ten lessons for future spending reviews based on the experience of the 2014 Italian spending review. Among other things, it underscores the importance of a clear top down component, of transparency, of outreach, of avoiding equal cuts to spending units that differ in terms of efficiency level, and, of course, of political support, as spending cut decisions are ultimately political decision, given their impact on resource allocation and income distribution. Classification-JEL: H50, H61 Keywords: Note: Pages:177-186 Volume: 2015/1 Year: 2015 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=54582&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2015-001008 Number: 8