Structural Reforms Without Prejudices - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199203628 ISBN 13: 9780199203628

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2006

Riassunto

Our economies face constant challenges from many different directions. Structural reforms are implemented every day, either to grasp the benefits of globalization and technological change, or to avoid foundering on unaffordable welfare systems or the rise of new economies.

Despite this flurry of reforms, many of their effects are insufficiently understood. What makes reforms a success or a failure? Why do we witness systematically ambivalent attitudes to reforms? Can governments implement reforms differently, without inflicting prejudice to large fringes of the population?

This book explores these issues by comparing a number of reforms, across a large set of countries and sectors. First, through an innovative multisectorial input-output analysis, the authors compare the effects of liberalisation reforms in the telecommunication and electricity sectors across Europe. Surprisingly, they find that very similar and well-intended reforms can generate highly contrasted outcomes. It is also shown that governments must consider the effects of each reform on all sectors of the economy. Second, the authors explore how governments can tailor their reform strategy to alter the redistributive effects of reforms. They show that the government's approach to reforms has been very different across time and across countries. A government's approach depends on local institutions, on the nature of the opposition, and on the scope of the reform under way. The authors, however, show that governments do have alternatives. Often, there are ways to tailor reforms so as to protect specific parts of the population; and there are ways to experiment gradually, to avoid costly policy mistakes.

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L'autore:

Tito Boeri received his Ph.D. in economics from New York University and is currently Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and is Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He has also acted as consultant to the European Commission, International Monetary Fund, the ILO, the World Bank and the Italian Government. Micael Castanheira received his Ph.D. in economics from the Free University of Brussels and is currently a research fellow of the Belgian National Research Foundation (FNRS), and Professor of Economics at the Free University of Brussels. Riccardo Faini is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He was previously Director General at the Italian Treasury and has held the post of Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. Vincenzo Galasso obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and is currently Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, and Research Fellow of IGIER.

Contenuti:

• Introduction
• Part I.Riccardo Faini, Jonathan Haskel, Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Carlo Scarpa, and Christian Wey: Contrasting Europe's Decline: Do Product Market Reforms Help?
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Competition and Economic Performance: A Brief Review of the Literature
• 3: The Maze of Services Regulation
• 4: The Changing Role of the Tertiary Sector
• 5: The Impact of Service Regulation
• 6: Looking Ahead: Will Liberalization Policies Succeed?
• Part II.How to Gain Political Support for Reforms
• 7: Introduction
• 8: Evidence and Theory of Reforms
• 9: Exploit Parlimentary Majority
• 10: Widen Your Political Base
• 11: Divide and Conquer
• 12: Exploit External Constraints
• 13: How to Reform: Pulling the Strings
• Final Remarks

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199203628
• ISBN 13: 9780199203628
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Redattore: Boeri Tito, Castanheira Micael, Faini The Late Riccardo, Galasso Vincenzo