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2. La valutazione delle performance nella pubblica amministrazione italiana: dalla stagione dei controlli alla spending review.
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Urbani, Giovanni
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PUBLIC administration ,PUBLIC spending ,GOVERNMENT policy ,DECISION making ,ORGANIZATIONAL governance ,POLITICAL science - Abstract
The paper discusses the evolution of public performance evaluation from the early nineties to the present, age of the so-called spending review. It is a re-reading of facts with an operational dimension, also to orient future choices and the growth of the country, promoting policies for the development of productive public spending and acknowledging merit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
3. Nuovi mercati della valutazione: misurare I'impatto di uno sforzo addizionale territoriale in ricerca e innovazione.
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Silvani, Alberto, Boneila, Filippo, Celia, Lucia, and Rotilio, Alessandro
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POLICY analysis ,LOCAL government ,COMMUNITY development ,AD hoc organizations ,PUBLIC administration ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
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- 2008
4. The efficiency of agricultural spending in Italy: A territorial analysis
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Assunta Amato, Tatiana Castellotti, Giulia Diglio, Maria Assunta D'Oronzio, Franco Gaudio, and Mariacarmela Suanno
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rural development ,regional disparities ,rural policies ,policy evaluation ,regional budget ,crea database ,policies and bioeconomy ,Agriculture - Abstract
This paper assesses the efficiency of public agricultural expenditure in each Italian region through the analysis of regional budgets, both as a whole and in relation to specific agricultural policy measures. The degree of integration/complementarity between regional funds and Community funds of the second pillar of the CAP is also evaluated, in order to determine whether European resources are used by the Regions as a substitute for or in addition to regional measures. In Italy, public agricultural funding comes from three sources: the EU, the State, and the regions. While the literature on the effectiveness and efficiency of public spending in agriculture focuses on EU funds, the present research also takes into consideration the agricultural spending of Regions. This original analysis of agricultural spending at the regional level has been made possible by the databank of the CREA (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics), which has been gathering information on the allocations, payments, and remaining balances of regional accounts since 1990. The expenditure items for the agricultural sector included in the regional budgets were reclassified according to an original methodology created by the INEA (National Institute of Agricultural Economics, today CREA). The results show that the overall efficiency of public expenditure has improved over the last two decades (from less than 40% in 2000 to just over 50% in 2019). This improvement is quite evident in the South and the Islands and less so in the North. Agricultural policy measures that can be defined as “short term measures” (contributions to public and private entities involved in agricultural and forestry activities for running costs, such as salaries, telephone, electricity, etc.) show a good spending capacity, while measures requiring planning, such as business investments, still present difficulties. As regards integration/complementarity between regional funds and EU Fund for Rural Development Programmes (RDPs), the regions have been classified depending or whether or not they differentiate between the RDP financing and Budget financing. In the most recent period of 2014-2020, most regions have tended to target both sources of funding to support the same types of priority activities.
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- 2023
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5. The evaluation of fiscal and monetary policy in Croatia over a business cycle
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Manuel Benazić and Daniel Tomić
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macroeconomic management ,policy evaluation ,fiscal policy ,monetary policy ,business cycles ,Hodrick-Prescott filter ,Croatia ,Economic theory. Demography ,HB1-3840 - Abstract
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the controversies of fiscal and monetary policies in defining business cycles in Croatia, i.e. to answer the question whether they can, and in what way, determine the cyclical movements. Using Hodrick-Prescott filter for extracting cycles from selected macroeconomic variables for the period 1994-2013, this paper gives a reflection on the past relationship between the characteristics of Croatian fiscal and monetary policies by testing whether these two economic pillars are in fact coordinated over a business cycle. We found that both fiscal and monetary variables exhibit counter-cyclical behaviour with relatively weak correlation to the real GDP suggesting that they are coordinated during a business cycle but their reach is ambiguous. Finally, we conclude that fiscal and monetary policies in Croatia are constrained by internal and external factors, and thus they often cannot accomplish their counter-cyclical role.
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- 2014
6. L'Agenda Digitale Europea: il punto sulle strategie e gli investimenti nel campo della valutazione.
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Cortoni, Ida and Pandolfini, Valeria
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The European Digital Agenda represented a priority of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart growth of the European Union, towards the objectives of Europe 2030. The article outlines the regulatory framework on the digital strategy in Europe and Italy, proposing a theoretical-methodological discussion on the evaluation of policies on digitalization. The national results are presented in relation to the DESI INDEX, the main European tool for the observation of socio-cultural changes resulting from investments in digitalization, in the pre and post COVID period, discussing on the current state of evaluation practice in the implementation of Digital Agenda in Italy. The policy cycle outlined by the EU 2021-2027 programming and by the Recovery Plan on the topic of digital transition leads to a discussion of the main challenges of the evaluation practice, evidence of the structural complexity of the policies on digitization, stressing the need for multifocal and pluralistic evaluative perspectives of programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. Sapere valutativo e politiche pubbliche: l'ingannevole rincorsa al rigore.
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GAMBARDELLA, DORA and LUMINO, ROSARIA
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The paper critically examines how evaluation gains visibility as a «soft» policy instrument in the current policy making climate shaped by the rhetorical appeals for neutrality and sound evidence, and which consequences can be observed on the kind of legitimate knowledge devices and actors that are called to use them, admitted into the policy arena. In this framework we analyse specifically the experimental methods and performance analysis systems, often recognized as legitimate devices to provide value free accounts able to prompt reassuring effects on the complexity of decision making processes. Our intention is not prescriptive, we do not seek to identify the better instruments of evaluation nor to deny the potential worthiness of the mentioned devices, rather we aim at removing the «taken-for granted» character of their use, stressing their problematisation and insisting on the need of surfacing the assumptions underpinning their choice, that are often doomed to remain in the dark. For this purpose, we use the technical dimension as a preferable point of view to surface the logic of reasoning underpinning their adoption, outlining how they construct and legitimize interpretations of truth and causal links between behaviour and events, and vice versa how they are effected by them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
8. IL TURISMO SOCIALE: LA SITUAZIONE ATTUALE E LE PROSPETTIVE DI SVILUPPO.
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Destefanis, Sergio and Lavadera, Giuseppe Lubrano
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In this paper we dealt with social tourism trying to concentrate mainly on its quantitative aspects. However, once we found a working definition for the analysis of this phenomenon (identifying the key players in its supply and demand, and outlining its main features in common and in disagreement with other types of tourism), the lack of sufficiently informative databanks clearly emerged. Then, in order to characterize the phenomenon and its evolution we analyzed several case studies, describing particularly interesting examples of social tourism around the world. Our analysis indicates the need to develop a richer quantitative information than the existing one, especially if policy evaluation exercises must be undertaken. Surveys are needed that can identify the groups currently excluded from tourism. Besides, policies must be analyzed considering their effects on the treated subjects vis-à-vis control (non-treated) groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
9. Il dilemma della politica: incrementalismo, possibilismo e teoria della complessità.
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Marra, Mita
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Through an ideal dialogue with Albert O. Hirschman and Charles Lindblom, in this article, I focus on how to envision and assess desired change. The most innovative contributions by Hirschman and Lindblom are still in tune with recent complexity theory-based approaches to policy analysis and evaluation. Departing from rational choice premises, I highlight learning and social mechanisms to mobilize those contextual resources, which are underutilized or hidden. The aim of this article is to shed light on those processual dimensions of change where to focus public policy analysis and evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
10. Conviene incentivare le piccole imprese piuttosto che le grandi? Un'analisi basata sul multiple regression discontinuity design.
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Cerqua, Augusto and Pellegrini, Guido
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Capital subsidies are usually adopted to overcome credit market imperfections and compensate for local external diseconomies common in backward areas. Such rationales usually holds stronger for small firms. This might mean that small firms benefit the most from business subsidy policies. Using a multiple regression discontinuity design we evaluate the effectiveness of the main Italian regional policy in the period 1996-2007 -- the Law 488/92 (L. 488) -- in achieving economic growth for firms of different sizes. We find that the impact of the subsidies on employment, investment, and turnover is positive and statistically significant for micro and small firms, while it is not statistically different from zero for medium and large firms. On the other side, the effect on productivity is negligible irrespective of the firms' size. This might mean that are the smaller firms that really need the Government support to grow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
11. Sostenere le imprese agro-industriali in Piemonte: un'analisi controfattuale
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Lisa Sella, Elena Ragazzi, and Sara Pavone
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Urban Studies ,Economics and Econometrics ,Public Administration ,Food Animals ,Geography, Planning and Development ,agro-food industry ,counterfactual analysis ,policy evaluation ,coarsened exact matching - Abstract
This paper aims at analysing the role played by the Rural Development Programme (RDP) in supporting the Piedmont (Italy) agro-food industry, i.e. that part of the agricultural production chain characterised by the highest added value. This is a first attempt to extend the previous in itinere evaluation to an ex-post quasi experimental counterfactual evaluation of the subsidies' net impact. Since the agri-food industry is characterised by an extreme variety of firms, and having observed that the treated firms do not share the characteristics of the average population, The counterfactual group has been selected by adopting the coarsened exact matching technique, a quite recent imbalance-reducing matching method. The final results do suggest, above all, a stabilizing effect of the subsidy in a period characterized by a sever worldwide economic crisis. However, since results are quite uncertain, we expect that on-going further research (on the data-base, the model, and balance sheet indicators) will lead to stronger conclusion on the effectiveness of the policy. Nonetheless, this exercise already shows that the selected matching set and methodology, the chosen timing, and the quality of the available data do strongly influence the impact analysis.
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- 2015
12. Politiche di sostegno al settore agroindustriale in Piemonte: una valutazione controfattuale
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Sara Pavone, Elena Ragazzi, and Lisa Sella
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agro-food industry ,counterfactual analysis ,policy evaluation ,coarsened exact matching - Abstract
This paper aims at analysing the role played by the Rural Development Programme (RDP) in supporting the Piedmont (Italy) agro-food industry, i.e. that part of the agricultural production chain characterised by the highest added value. This is a first attempt to extend the previous in itinere evaluation to an ex-post quasi experimental counterfactual evaluation of the subsidies' net impact. Since the agri-food industry is characterised by an extreme variety of firms, and having observed that the treated firms do not share the characteristics of the average population. The counterfactual group has been selected by adopting the coarsened exact matching technique, a quite recent imbalance-reducing matching method. The final results do suggest, above all, a stabilizing effect of the subsidy in a period characterized by a sever worldwide economic crisis. However, since results are quite uncertain, we expect that on-going further research (on the data-base, the model, and balance sheet indicators) will lead to stronger conclusion on the effectiveness of the policy. Nonetheless, this exercise already shows that the selected matching set and methodology, the chosen timing, and the quality of the available data do strongly influence the impact analysis.
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- 2015
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