The Effects of Fiscal Decentralisation on Publicly Provided Services and Labour Market.

This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian municipalities by replacing government transfers with revenues from a local property tax. Our identification leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralization that stems from differences in the average age of buildings caused by bombings during WWII.

Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy.

The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar economic development. It exploits differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received.

The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program.

This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S.