This report presents results of the impact evaluation of the Directive 2009/12/EC - the Airport Charges Directive (ACD) - on the level of airport charges. The ACD aimed to influence inter...
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This paper explores the role of decentralization in explaining variation in fuel subsidies across countries. Using panel data over the period 1998-2008 and for 108 countries, it emerges...
This paper uses European firm-level survey data to provide some robust empirical evidence that suppliers engaged in production to order (PTO) for foreign firms are more...
Intermunicipal cooperation is a common way to provide local public services, exploit economies of scale, and internalize externalities. However, little is known about possible efficiency gains...
By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that rise minimum retirement age can affect individual investment in health-promoting behaviors before retirement. Using...
We study the problem of evaluating whether the selection from a set is close to the ordering of the set determined by an exogenously given measure. Our main result is that three axioms, two...
Background: An increasing number of hospitals react to recent demographic, epidemiological and managerial challenges moving from a traditional organizational model, based on functional departments, to a Patient-Centered (PC) hospital...
In this study we leverage on Italy’s size-contingent firing restrictions in order to identify the causal effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on firm-provided training using a regression discontinuity...
In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001) through which immigrants generate increased export...
