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Università della Svizzera italiana

Law enforcement, municipal budgets and spillover effects : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy

Galletta, Sergio

In this paper, I empirically investigate the presence of spillover effects resulting from the strengthening of law enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that gives power to the central government to replace democratically elected municipal officials who are potentially connected with mafia with a commission of...

Università della Svizzera italiana

New empirical evidence on local financial development and growth

Vaona, Andrea ; Patuelli, Roberto

In this paper, we show that the regional finance-growth nexus in Italy is robust to a series of innovations with respect to the existing literature on the topic. We use finer measures of economic and financial development, as well as instruments with a deeper economic content. We rely on state-of-the-art cross-sectional and panel estimation methods, and we offer a thorough investigation of the...