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Essays of Political economy: Strategic timing of confidence votes and similarity measures of electoral promises
No full textStrategic timing in politics and media attention: Evidence from Italy. The eect of populism on electoral promises
Libertas in legis “non iam” consistit. L’evoluzione del principio di separazione dei poteri attraverso la lente del diritto ad una morte dignitosa
No full textThis paper explores the tension between emerging bioethical rights—especially
the right to a dignified death—and the traditional separation of powers. As science and
society evolve, the legal system faces growing complexity, revealing a gap between
legislative inaction and judicial or administrative activism.
Through the Cappato case, the Constitutional Court effectively created a right to assisted
suicide, compensating for the lack of legislation and prompting regional initiatives that
raised issues of competence. The 2024 ruling no. 135 further refined the concept of life-
support treatments, adopting a more flexible, patient-centered view.
In the absence of clear laws, ethics committees and administrations play a key role in
implementing these rights, though not without ambiguity. Overall, the study calls for a
reinterpreted separation of powers, based on institutional dialogue and coordinated
competences, to better protect fundamental individual rights
When AI meets “humanness”: Understanding recruiters’ attitudes towards AI in personnel selection
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Optimal Capital Taxation with Borrowing Constraints and Entrepreneurial Heterogeneity
No full textThis paper analyzes the optimal taxation of labor and various forms of capital in a
model with entrepreneurial heterogeneity and financial frictions as in Itskhoki and Moll (2019a). We consider both a closed economy, populated by workers that buy corporate bonds, and a small open economy with hand-to-mouth workers where entrepreneurs finance capital by using their wealth and by borrowing abroad. The optimal fiscal policy differs depending on whether we consider the closed economy or the small open economy. In the former the taxes on labor and pure capital should be positive, while the tax on capital income should be zero. The wealth tax levied on workers and entrepreneurs and the pure capital tax levied on firms are equivalent fiscal instruments. When we consider a small open economy, we find that the pure capital tax should be set to zero but both the capital income tax and the labor tax should be positive. In this case the capital income tax and the wealth tax are perfect substitutes
Delegated Rulemaking in Times of Crisis Rethinking Emergency Powers in the EU
No full textThe insurgence of different transnational crises over the course of the last decade has uncovered several vulnerabilities in the administrative governance of the European Union (EU) and raised questions about its crisis management capacity. Emergency response traditionally lies in the hands of the member states, but the increasing spillovers, overlaps, and intertwining elements of crises have showcased a clear need for a collective European crisis management. Beyond a couple of very specific and isolated exceptions, the Treaties do not envision fully-fledged emergency powers. Consequently, the EU has had to often resort to the creation of mechanisms outside the scope of the Treaties, later incorporating them in its legal framework and thus casting further doubts on the democratic legitimacy of the process. The executive institutions are generally in charge of emergency politics, leaving the legislative branch little room to carry out its normal functions. The legitimacy of crisis management in general is in any case subject to frequent questioning, as it tends to favour effectiveness and efficiency over the fulfilment of a thorough democratic process.
The long-standing practice of delegated rulemaking pursuant to Arts. 290 and 291 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) has significantly increased in the last few years. This has included, though it was not limited to, the management of the most recent crises. Delegated and implementing acts, while traditionally carrying the burden of a disputed transparency and accountability, are rooted in the Treaties and arguably ensure the adoption of measures quickly and effectively. Despite their relatively limited scope, they have been increasingly adopted among the plethora of measures of EU crisis decision-making.
Against this background, this thesis analyses the role of delegated and implementing acts in the crisis management strategy of the EU. It focuses in particular on their implications on the democratic legitimacy of EU decision-making during crises, evaluating the potential trade-off between their controversial accountability against their democratic ground and procedural effectiveness. The general objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of delegated rulemaking on EU crisis management through the lens of democratic legitimacy – specifically, input, throughput, and output. The empirical contribution of this thesis is articulated by means of a comparative analysis of the most recent crises faced by the EU, namely the sovereign debt crisis, the so-called refugee crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the consequences to the war in Ukraine. The data, also collected by means of semi-structured interviews with EU officials in Brussels, and overall findings suggest that delegated rulemaking is an effective tool of crisis management, but it is nevertheless subject to several limitations. Its democratic standing, however, does not fundamentally impinge on the already output-driven legitimacy of emergency politics. Future research could be aimed at further exploring the potential for integrating emergency ruling by decree in EU governance
Optimal planning in habit formation models with multiple goods
No full textIn this paper we investigate a model with habit formation and two types of substitute goods. We are inspired by the classical models in e.g. Carroll et al. (Am Econ Rev 90(3):341–355, 2000) where on the contrary only one good is considered. Such a family of models, even in the case of 1 good, are difficult to study since their utility function is not concave in the interesting cases (see e.g. Bambi and Gozzi (J Math Econ 91:165–172, 2020)), hence the first order conditions are not sufficient. We are inspired by the situation in which there is a lockdown in the economy and one sector closes whereas habits develop on the second good. This more elaborate model will be the subject of future work. In the present paper, we carry out a first analysis in the case of no lockdown. We introduce and explain the model which considers two goods where one of the two is related to habit stock and where the utility function is expressed as the sum of two utility functions. For this model, we provide some first results using the dynamic programming approach. We prove that the value function is a viscosity solution of the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation, and also some results on the qualitative behaviour of the value function are furnished. Such results will form a solid ground over which a deep study of the features of the solutions can be performed
