Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma Galli Author-Name: Ilde Rizzo Author-Name: Carla Scaglioni Title: Transparency and Performance in the Italian Large Municipalities Abstract: In this paper, we aim at evaluating from an economic perspective the recent Italian regulation on transparency to investigate its relationship with the performance of the public sector. We address the following questions: is the degree of administrative transparency somehow related with the performance? Is it likely that municipalities showing a better performance are also more transparent? Using large Italian municipalities as a case study, through the joint analysis of a new transparency indicator built by Galli et al. (2017) and of rather new official data on local governments performance, we provide some preliminary evidence that the degree of transparency is related to the performance. Classification-JEL: K2, K4, H3, H7 Keywords: Note: Pages:5-25 Volume: 2018/2-3 Year: 2018 Issue:2-3 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=62865&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2018-002001 Number: 1 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=62865 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Carnazza Title: Il saldo di bilancio corretto per il ciclo economico: un?analisi empirica del caso italiano Abstract: The cyclically adjusted budget balance: An empirical analysis of the Italian case This article presents an estimate of the cyclically-adjusted primary balance in Italy during the new Millennium (1999-2016) in order to assess the fiscal policy stance pursued during the period considered. If it is possible to initially qualify the fiscal policy as counter-cyclical, when the correction is made for the cycle, the budget balance becomes completely acyclical. Therefore, once the budget balance has been adjusted for the automatic influences deriving from the fluctuations of the economic cycle, the discretion of the Government has been explained in the weakening of the original anti-cyclical nature of the fiscal policy. Repeating the analysis in two different sub-periods with the 2008 crisis as a watershed, it emerged that this discretionary reductionist intervention has focused more on the period following the outbreak of the crisis, which highlights how discretionary fiscal policy has failed its expansive contribution in the most difficult moments of the crisis. Classification-JEL: H20, H50, H61, H62 Keywords: Note: Pages:27-52 Volume: 2018/2-3 Year: 2018 Issue:2-3 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=62866&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2018-002002 Number: 2 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=62866 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luca Gandullia Author-Name: Andrea Taddei Title: Il fondo di solidariet? 2017: effetti e sostenibilit? per i comuni italiani Abstract: The Municipal Solidarity Fund (MSF) performs the role of equalizing instrument for the municipal sector. Being of a purely horizontal nature, it implies a strong solidarity pact between contributory and beneficiary municipal administrations. This paper aims to deepen the redistributive effects of the MSF and its impact on the financial sustainability of municipal budgets. The evidence shows that some types of municipalities are more disadvantaged by the MSF 2017; moreover, the simulation to 2021, when there will be the final implementation of the new equalization system, shows that in some cases the increase in the negative impact of equalization in relation to the own fiscal revenue will make difficult to sustain the contribution to the Fund by many administrations. Lastly, a "solidarity" threshold is proposed to make the equalization levy more sustainable. Classification-JEL: H71, H73, H77 Keywords: Note: Pages:53-77 Volume: 2018/2-3 Year: 2018 Issue:2-3 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=62867&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2018-002003 Number: 3 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=62867 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fabio Fiorillo Title: Il vertical imbalance e federalismo fiscale in Italia: un possibile disegno per la finanza comunale Abstract: The attempt to promote fiscal federalism in Italy seem to be stopped by economic crisis. The Legge Delega 42/2009 was never fully applied, municipalities had lost the power of setting local tax rates and the main local tax on housing was reformed to not apply IMU on the main house. This paper suggests that the main problem to solve for designing a local tax system in Italy is the vertical imbalance one. Therefore resources for providing a list of main functions of Municipality have to be granted by central governement. Such provision should be accountable and only after the definition of such resources municipal fiscal autonomy could be set. Four scenarios are propose in order to design an accountable local fiscal system where central and local responsability are clear. Classification-JEL: H71 Keywords: Note: Pages:79-106 Volume: 2018/2-3 Year: 2018 Issue:2-3 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=62868&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2018-002004 Number: 4 X-File-Ref: http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/References.ashx?idArticolo=62868 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Valeria Garotta Author-Name: Bruno Spadoni Title: Le partecipate nei servizi idrici, ambientali ed energetici. L?analisi del White Book di Utilitatis Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:107-118 Volume: 2018/2-3 Year: 2018 Issue:2-3 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=62869&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/EP2018-002005 Number: 5