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Economic Survey of Italy 2009: Supporting regulatory reform

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17-Jun-2009

Despite the improvement in regulatory indicators, overall productivity performance has improved very little in Italy. This chapter reviews a number of possible structural explanations.

Economic Survey of Italy 2009: Weathering the storm: the financial system in Italy

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17-Jun-2009

Italy is facing strong headwinds from the international financial crisis but so far its banking system has been more resilient than in other countries. This chapter suggests that this reflects a combination of factors.

Italy: ensuring regulatory quality across levels of government

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08-Nov-2007

This report analyses multi-level governance in Italy and the capacity of regions to produce high quality regulation, an important theme to achieve overall regulatory coherence.

Italy should improve regulatory quality to boost regional growth, says OECD

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08-Nov-2007

Italy should cut red tape, improve the way new rules affecting citizens and business are drafted at a regional level and strengthen co-ordination between the State and the regions. This will boost innovation ...

Economic Survey of Italy 2005: Corporate governance and market liberalisation: the scope for improvement

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18-May-2005

Households have been hurt by a series of bond defaults that have highlighted the urgency of improving bankruptcy procedures, corporate governance and financial market supervision. Network industries, professional ...

Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti

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14-Jan-2004

A member of  the National Economic Research Organisations (NERO).

Regulatory Reform in the Telecommunications Industry in Italy

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16-May-2003

The telecommunications industry has undergone significant regulatory reform over the last decade. By the beginning of 2001, 27 OECD Member countries have liberalised their telecommunications market, including ...

Regulatory Reform in Electricity, Gas and Railroads in Italy

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16-May-2003

Italy is profoundly changing the role of the public sector in the "productive sphere." Until the 1990s, the State was directly involved in production. Public utilities were organised in a monopolistic ...

Enhancing Market Openness through Regulatory Reform in Italy

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16-May-2003

As trade barriers to trade have fallen, the impact of domestic regulations on international trade and investment has become more apparent than ever. While regulations aim at reaching arguable objectives ...

Sectoral regulatory reforms in Italy: framework and implications

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14-May-2001

Alessandro Goglio

Economics Department working paper 294. This paper discusses product market regulatory reforms in Italy over the past decade. Special attention is given to the underlying macroeconomic context for sectoral ...