Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014ECO007.
In the last two decades many countries have proposed structural reforms to decentralize public tasks as well as policy decisions to sub-central jurisdictions. The aim of these reforms, accordingly with the common theoretical arguments, was to produce beneficial effects such as an improved matching between citizens' preferences and policy adoption, an increase in politicians' accountability...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO013.
Many events can have a catastrophic effect on an economic environment, such as natural disasters, wars, migrations, pandemic diseases, etc. This thesis focuses on three of them: catastrophic agglomeration of firms as a response to tax differentials, immigration phenomena described as catastrophic by the natives and catastrophic earthquakes with destructive consequences for both physical and...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015ECO003.
Switzerland is a country with a strongly decentralized political system, based on federalism and institutions of direct democracy, on a liberal economic culture, and on a well-developed tradition of mutualism and social security (generous social expenditure and welfare system). Switzerland is unique for its high level of decentralization and for the particular distribution of competences and...
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