The paper compares the quality of Italian Medical schools’ freshmen on the basis of the scores ob... more The paper compares the quality of Italian Medical schools’ freshmen on the basis of the scores obtained in the locally conducted entry exams which are using a common national test frame. The test is quite selective (partly because of the reduced size of the intake yearly allowed): winners are people on average better than the average graduates of their own
We exploit a gravity model to study the main determinants of cross-border financial flows and to ... more We exploit a gravity model to study the main determinants of cross-border financial flows and to identify those flows that appear to be abnormally above the predicted value. Our data include all Italian cross-border bank transfers that took place between 2007 and 2010. We find that, other things being equal, financial flows to risky destinations are 36 per cent larger than in other countries. Using the residuals from our main econometric specification, we then construct an index of anomaly and find positive and statistically significant correlations between this and the rate of property and drugs-related crimes in the province of origin, and also between the index and other measures of foreign jurisdictions’ riskiness and opacity of legislation.
The paper compares the quality of Italian Medical schools’ freshmen on the basis of the scores ob... more The paper compares the quality of Italian Medical schools’ freshmen on the basis of the scores obtained in the locally conducted entry exams which are using a common national test frame. The test is quite selective (partly because of the reduced size of the intake yearly allowed): winners are people on average better than the average graduates of their own
We exploit a gravity model to study the main determinants of cross-border financial flows and to ... more We exploit a gravity model to study the main determinants of cross-border financial flows and to identify those flows that appear to be abnormally above the predicted value. Our data include all Italian cross-border bank transfers that took place between 2007 and 2010. We find that, other things being equal, financial flows to risky destinations are 36 per cent larger than in other countries. Using the residuals from our main econometric specification, we then construct an index of anomaly and find positive and statistically significant correlations between this and the rate of property and drugs-related crimes in the province of origin, and also between the index and other measures of foreign jurisdictions’ riskiness and opacity of legislation.
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2010. We find that, other things being equal, financial flows to risky destinations are 36 per
cent larger than in other countries. Using the residuals from our main econometric specification, we then construct an index of anomaly and find positive and statistically significant correlations between this and the rate of property and drugs-related crimes in the province of origin, and also between the index and other measures of foreign jurisdictions’ riskiness and opacity of legislation.
2010. We find that, other things being equal, financial flows to risky destinations are 36 per
cent larger than in other countries. Using the residuals from our main econometric specification, we then construct an index of anomaly and find positive and statistically significant correlations between this and the rate of property and drugs-related crimes in the province of origin, and also between the index and other measures of foreign jurisdictions’ riskiness and opacity of legislation.