The Working Paper series publishes original research related to IREF’s mission.
Every article also provides a non-technical Executive Summary.
WP 2013-07. Executive Summary The traditional argument in favour of decentralization focuses on tax competition and on the quality of public expenditure. In a sentence, it is argued that a…
WP 2013-06. Executive Summary There is a vast literature that documents the benefit of training, both for the employee (whose productivity and wage rate increase) and for the employer (who…
WP 2013-05. Executive Summary Although it is generally agreed that government size has a negative impact on economic growth, it is also manifest that the intensity of this causal relationship…
WP 2013-04. Executive Summary The critical situation of most state-pension schemes plays a key role in explaining the public-finance crises that characterize many West-European countries. Although most observers refrain from…
WP 2013-03. Executive Summary International restructurings by globally acting enterprises have become a common occurrence in the wake of accelerating globalization and have led to increasing global relocations of economic…
WP2013-01. Executive Summary This working paper explores the notion of personal responsibility by considering people’s attitude towards redistribution. In particular, the authors run a controlled experiment by offering a representative…
WP 2013-02. Executive Summary Update (Nov’14): The paper has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Law and Economics. There is no doubt that the judiciary plays a…
WP 2012-03. Executive Summary Update Jul’14: The paper has been published by Palgrave Macmillan and is available on Amazon. The European crisis is not behind us and easy solutions do…
WP 2012-02. Executive Summary The quality of the institutional environment is a crucial issue in understanding the effective outcome of fiscal decentralization initiatives. However, there has been so far very…
WP 2012-01. Executive Summary Update: The paper was published in 2013 as “Grant legislation vs. political factors as determinants of soft budget spending behaviors. Comparison between Italian and French regions”…
