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Italy Selected Issues

This Selected Issues paper establishes a causal link between public sector efficiency at the provincial level and firm productivity using data for about 450,000 Italian firms. It emphasizes that significant productivity gains could be realized if public sector efficiency improves from currently low...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund European Dept
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2015
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Finance, Public
Public Administration
Public-private Enterprises
Banks
Finance
Banks And Banking
Industries: Financial Services
Financial Sector Policy And Analysis
Financial Statements
Mortgages
Business Enterprises
Macroeconomics: Production
Accounting
Public Sector Accounting And Audits
Civil Service & Public Sector
Macroeconomics
Public Financial Management (pfm)
Financial Reporting, Financial Statements
Depository Institutions
Distressed Assets
Productivity
Public Enterprises
Public Sector
Financial Institutions
General Financial Markets: Government Policy And Regulation
Micro Finance Institutions
Ownership & Organization Of Enterprises
Corporate Finance And Governance: General
Nonperforming Loans
Economic Sectors
Corporate Sector
Loans
Finance, Public; Accounting
Finance: General
Production And Operations Management
Italy
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This Selected Issues paper establishes a causal link between public sector efficiency at the provincial level and firm productivity using data for about 450,000 Italian firms. It emphasizes that significant productivity gains could be realized if public sector efficiency improves from currently low levels. If efficiency rises to the frontier in all provinces, output per employee would increase 9 percent for the average firm. Implementing the public administration reform agenda and recommendations of the 2014 spending review and competition authority could help deliver some of these productivity gains
Physical Description:74 pages
ISBN:9781513559681

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