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ECONOMIA PUBBLICA
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Publisher
FrancoAngeli
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ISSN
0390-6140 (Printed Journal)
1972-5566 (Online Journal)
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Journal Issue Number
2
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Journal Issue Designation
2-3
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Journal Issue Date (YYYY/MM)
2018/11
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Full Title
Transparency and Performance in the Italian Large Municipalities
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5
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Last Page
25
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Language of text
English
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Publication Date
2018/11
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Copyright
2018 FrancoAngeli srl
Introduction or preface
In this paper, we aim at evaluating from an economic perspective the recent Italian regulation on transparency to investigate its relationship with the performance of the public sector. We address the following questions: is the degree of administrative transparency somehow related with the performance? Is it likely that municipalities showing a better performance are also more transparent? Using large Italian municipalities as a case study, through the joint analysis of a new transparency indicator built by Galli et al. (2017) and of rather new official data on local governments performance, we provide some preliminary evidence that the degree of transparency is related to the performance.
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