Paolo Liberati
Biographic Data
| ID | 178017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Liberati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Liberati |
| SIGNATURE | LIBERATI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6317-9701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Health spending, income inequality and patient mobility
This study investigates the interplay between income inequality, health spending and patient mobility within the context of the Italian healthcare system. By analysing a balanced panel of 15 Italian regions from 2003 to 2019, we examine how income inequality influences regional health expenditure policies and moderates the relationship between interregional compensation for patient mobility and public health spending. Our findings indicate that b…
Interregional patient mobility, underfunding and the private-public provision of healthcare in Italy
This paper employs cluster analysis to examine how interregional patient mobility, the level of health funding, and the public-private mix contribute to shaping territorial differences in health services in Italy. The findings indicate that these regional models reflect the country’s longstanding economic divide between the North and the South. Rather than mitigating inequalities in access and opportunity, the current regional healthcare configur…
Does politics matter? A comparative assessment of discretionary fiscal policies in the euro area
When using discretionary fiscal policies in the countries belonging to the European Union, any change affecting the current fiscal stance must run into the boundary designed by fiscal rules. This would imply that discretionary fiscal policies - being mainly driven by the need to comply with fiscal rules - might be scarcely affected by politics and the political characteristics of a country. We empirically test this hypothesis on a sample of 19 Eu…
Monetary flows for inter-regional health mobility
This study investigates the dynamics of healthcare mobility in Italy, where citizens have the freedom to access medical treatment across regions. More than half a million patients, primarily from the Southern regions, engage in healthcare mobility, resulting in a total inter-regional transfer of resources amounting to about €3.7 billion in 2019. Leveraging a unique dataset spanning from 2002 to 2019, this research examines financial flows among r…
Income-related inequality in smoking habits
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries
Smoking and income distribution
From Potential GDP to Structural Balance
Since the Maastricht Treaty, increasingly complex fiscal rules have been progressively introduced aimed at closely regulating and deeply affecting the budgetary policies of all signatory countries. One of the main reforms, enacted since 2005, has been to interpret national budget balances in structural terms, forcing each member state to comply with a Medium-Term Objective (MTO) based on the general principle of a zero-structural budget balance. …
Measuring Health Inequality in US
Does redistribution matter? The decomposition of the fiscal residuum in Italian regions
Fiscal residuum has often been used as an index of the territorial balance between taxes paid and benefits received from the policies of different tiers of government. Its standard calculation, however, conflates what of the residuum is due to the need of financing public spending and what is due to the redistributive aims of government levels. This paper introduces a decomposition that isolates these two elements. The empirical evidence for Ital…
The growth and variability of regional taxes
The growth and variability of regional taxes: an application to Italy. Regional Studies. This paper investigates the potential long-term growth and short-term cyclical stability of the Italian regional tax system. Short- and long-run elasticities with respect to regional gross domestic product (GDP) are estimated between 2001 and 2012 for the surtax on central personal income tax (RPIT) and for the regional tax on productive activities (RTPA). Cy…
A matching model of university–industry collaborations
A Decomposition of the Sen Index of Poverty Using the Analysis of Gini
This paper provides a decomposition of the Sen index by subgroups using the analysis of Gini. This method decomposes the Sen index, isolating the contribution of the poverty gap, those of within and between inequality, as well as the contribution of overlapping. The application of this method to the analysis of world poverty in two years shows that the evolution of the Sen index and of all its components can be easily captured and interpreted, a …
Tax decentralization and local government size
A Decomposition of the Personal Income Tax Changes in Italy
The effects of personal income tax changes are usually analyzed by comparing the inequality of income distributions before and after the tax policy change on a fixed pretax income distribution. This constant-population methodology aims at isolating the »pure« redistributive effect of the tax legislation. On the basis of the OECD's 1987 analysis, this paper proposes a methodology to disentangle the pure effect of tax changes from the influence of …
Trade Openness, Capital Openness and Government Size
This paper provides empirical evidence of the relation between trade openness, capital openness and government expenditures in a cross-sectional time-series context. It is shown that capital openness is significantly and negatively related to government expenditures in line with the conventional wisdom that capital mobility may undermine the ability of governments to maintain larger public sectors. More importantly, the compensation hypothesis or…
UK Privatization and Household Welfare
This paper investigates the effects of the UK privatization process by estimating changes in household welfare on the basis of real relative price changes. As measured on the basis of price changes at the consumer level, privatization has generated aggregate welfare gains for households. When exogenous input costs in the production process are controlled for, it is noted that the role of privatization is more limited, being between 15% and 50% of…
Trade Openness, Capital Openness and Government Size
This paper provides empirical evidence of the relation between trade openness, capital openness and government expenditures in a cross-sectional time-series context. It is shown that capital openness is significantly and negatively related to government expenditures in line with the conventional wisdom that capital mobility may undermine the ability of governments to maintain larger public sectors. More importantly, the compensation hypothesis or…
Tax decentralization and local government size
Monetary flows for inter-regional health mobility
This study investigates the dynamics of healthcare mobility in Italy, where citizens have the freedom to access medical treatment across regions. More than half a million patients, primarily from the Southern regions, engage in healthcare mobility, resulting in a total inter-regional transfer of resources amounting to about €3.7 billion in 2019. Leveraging a unique dataset spanning from 2002 to 2019, this research examines financial flows among r…
From Potential GDP to Structural Balance
Since the Maastricht Treaty, increasingly complex fiscal rules have been progressively introduced aimed at closely regulating and deeply affecting the budgetary policies of all signatory countries. One of the main reforms, enacted since 2005, has been to interpret national budget balances in structural terms, forcing each member state to comply with a Medium-Term Objective (MTO) based on the general principle of a zero-structural budget balance. …
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries
Measuring Health Inequality in US
The growth and variability of regional taxes
The growth and variability of regional taxes: an application to Italy. Regional Studies. This paper investigates the potential long-term growth and short-term cyclical stability of the Italian regional tax system. Short- and long-run elasticities with respect to regional gross domestic product (GDP) are estimated between 2001 and 2012 for the surtax on central personal income tax (RPIT) and for the regional tax on productive activities (RTPA). Cy…
UK Privatization and Household Welfare
This paper investigates the effects of the UK privatization process by estimating changes in household welfare on the basis of real relative price changes. As measured on the basis of price changes at the consumer level, privatization has generated aggregate welfare gains for households. When exogenous input costs in the production process are controlled for, it is noted that the role of privatization is more limited, being between 15% and 50% of…
Trade Openness, Capital Openness and Government Size
This paper provides empirical evidence of the relation between trade openness, capital openness and government expenditures in a cross-sectional time-series context. It is shown that capital openness is significantly and negatively related to government expenditures in line with the conventional wisdom that capital mobility may undermine the ability of governments to maintain larger public sectors. More importantly, the compensation hypothesis or…
A Decomposition of the Personal Income Tax Changes in Italy
The effects of personal income tax changes are usually analyzed by comparing the inequality of income distributions before and after the tax policy change on a fixed pretax income distribution. This constant-population methodology aims at isolating the »pure« redistributive effect of the tax legislation. On the basis of the OECD's 1987 analysis, this paper proposes a methodology to disentangle the pure effect of tax changes from the influence of …
Tax decentralization and local government size
A Decomposition of the Sen Index of Poverty Using the Analysis of Gini
This paper provides a decomposition of the Sen index by subgroups using the analysis of Gini. This method decomposes the Sen index, isolating the contribution of the poverty gap, those of within and between inequality, as well as the contribution of overlapping. The application of this method to the analysis of world poverty in two years shows that the evolution of the Sen index and of all its components can be easily captured and interpreted, a …
A matching model of university–industry collaborations
The growth and variability of regional taxes
The growth and variability of regional taxes: an application to Italy. Regional Studies. This paper investigates the potential long-term growth and short-term cyclical stability of the Italian regional tax system. Short- and long-run elasticities with respect to regional gross domestic product (GDP) are estimated between 2001 and 2012 for the surtax on central personal income tax (RPIT) and for the regional tax on productive activities (RTPA). Cy…
Measuring Health Inequality in US
Does redistribution matter? The decomposition of the fiscal residuum in Italian regions
Fiscal residuum has often been used as an index of the territorial balance between taxes paid and benefits received from the policies of different tiers of government. Its standard calculation, however, conflates what of the residuum is due to the need of financing public spending and what is due to the redistributive aims of government levels. This paper introduces a decomposition that isolates these two elements. The empirical evidence for Ital…
Smoking and income distribution
From Potential GDP to Structural Balance
Since the Maastricht Treaty, increasingly complex fiscal rules have been progressively introduced aimed at closely regulating and deeply affecting the budgetary policies of all signatory countries. One of the main reforms, enacted since 2005, has been to interpret national budget balances in structural terms, forcing each member state to comply with a Medium-Term Objective (MTO) based on the general principle of a zero-structural budget balance. …
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries
Income-related inequality in smoking habits
Monetary flows for inter-regional health mobility
This study investigates the dynamics of healthcare mobility in Italy, where citizens have the freedom to access medical treatment across regions. More than half a million patients, primarily from the Southern regions, engage in healthcare mobility, resulting in a total inter-regional transfer of resources amounting to about €3.7 billion in 2019. Leveraging a unique dataset spanning from 2002 to 2019, this research examines financial flows among r…
Does politics matter? A comparative assessment of discretionary fiscal policies in the euro area
When using discretionary fiscal policies in the countries belonging to the European Union, any change affecting the current fiscal stance must run into the boundary designed by fiscal rules. This would imply that discretionary fiscal policies - being mainly driven by the need to comply with fiscal rules - might be scarcely affected by politics and the political characteristics of a country. We empirically test this hypothesis on a sample of 19 Eu…
Health spending, income inequality and patient mobility
This study investigates the interplay between income inequality, health spending and patient mobility within the context of the Italian healthcare system. By analysing a balanced panel of 15 Italian regions from 2003 to 2019, we examine how income inequality influences regional health expenditure policies and moderates the relationship between interregional compensation for patient mobility and public health spending. Our findings indicate that b…
Interregional patient mobility, underfunding and the private-public provision of healthcare in Italy
This paper employs cluster analysis to examine how interregional patient mobility, the level of health funding, and the public-private mix contribute to shaping territorial differences in health services in Italy. The findings indicate that these regional models reflect the country’s longstanding economic divide between the North and the South. Rather than mitigating inequalities in access and opportunity, the current regional healthcare configur…
Economics (13 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (7 works) · Inequality (7 works) · Global Health Care Issues (5 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (5 works) · Macroeconomics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic inequality (4 works) · European union (4 works) · International economics (4 works)