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Partnership Communities: Public Private Partnerships and Non-Market Infrastructure Development Around the World

We undertake the first quantitative and broadly comparative study of the structure and performance of partnership communities to our knowledge. Our study addresses several important research questions. How connected are the members of partnership communities? How can we understand the quality of the projects a community undertakes? How do political institutions shape their structure and performance? After defining partnership communities as networked communities of private firms which form th...

Mapping Behavioral Public Policy. Citizens' Preferences and Trust

This book provides a new perspective on behavioral public policy. The field of behavioral public policy has been dominated by the concept of ‘nudging’ over the last decade. As this book demonstrates, however, ‘nudging’ is one of many behavioral techniques that practitioners and policymakers can utilize in order to achieve their goals. The book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these alternative techniques, and demonstrates empirically how the impact of ‘nudging’ and ‘non-nudging’ ...

La riforma del TUF. Intermediari, mercati e nuove frontiere del diritto dell’economia

Il diritto privato delle Regioni

In the last decades, the sources of private law have undergone a marked process of expansion. Looking upwards, Europe has no doubt taken up a leading role, becoming the source of a new private law, with its own features and rules. And looking downwards? A few questions arise: Can regional governments make norms of private law? And if so, what are their limits in doing so? The research presented here offers a reconstruction of the problem of private law at the regional government level...