Servizi pubblici locali: concorrenza, regolazione e intervento pubblico

Magda Bianco () and Paolo Sestito
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Magda Bianco: Banca d'Italia, Roma

Rivista di Politica Economica, 2011, issue 1, 255-276

Abstract: Local public services heavily affect the quality of life with an impact upon local development. Since they are often natural monopolies, they have been typically heavily regulated. Starting in the 1990s, a reform process in Italy aimed at liberalizing them. Its concrete steps have not taken adequately into account the potential opposition from relevant stakeholders and have established too weak and too local regulatory bodies. Recent reforms aimed at re-enforcing the competitive orientation of the legal frame. However, they do not appear to tackle the issues of establishing well functioning and independent regulatory bodies and of financing infrastructures.

Keywords: liberalization; local public services; regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 H42 H75 K23 L33 L43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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