The Istituto Bruno Leoni Index of Globalisation: a summary

On 28 March, EPICENTER’s Italian partner, the Istituto Bruno Leoni (IBL), published its Index of Globalisation. The index covers 39 countries, including members of …

Natural disasters and the faults of state-funded reconstruction

Paolo Belardinelli // 19.09.2016
 
I hail from Marche, one of the regions hit by the recent earthquake in which 292 people died. Unfortunately, …

The invisible effects of commission fee caps

François Bethaz and Michele Pisano // 16.06.2016
As of 9 June 2016, the new European rules on inter-bank commission fees for card-based payment transactions …

An Interview with F. A. Hayek’s Student, Kurt Leube

Rosamaria Bitetti // 16.05.2016
“When I turned 15, my parents gave me a copy of “The Road to Serfdom”. Some of the ideas in …

Austerity: A User’s Manual

Paolo Belardinelli // 29.03.2016
The mayhem in financial markets we have observed in the last few months gave renewed prominence to the issue of …

How Italy is doing, without the romance

Giacomo Lev Mannheimer // 03.02.2016
The founder of Public Choice theory, Nobel Laureate James Buchanan, called it “politics without romance”. Buchanan wanted to show …

EU Antitrust vs. Google

Istituto Bruno Leoni, 20 January 2016
The extent of market power enjoyed by Google is a debatable question. The antitrust literature emphasises the importance …

Could Italy’s economic stagnation also be due to a failure to protect property rights?

Giacomo Lev Mannheimer // 08.01.2016
Every year, several international organisations and think tanks monitor the index of economic freedom of different countries worldwide. Sometimes …

Reforms and growth: The 2015 IBL Index of Liberalisations

Diego Zuluaga // 01.12.2015
EPICENTER’s Italian partner, Istituto Bruno Leoni, just released its 2015 Index of Liberalisations report. This study, first conducted in 2007 …

Index of Liberalizations 2015

Istituto Bruno Leoni, November 2015
The Istituto Bruno Leoni’s Index of Liberalizations aims at identifying both the barriers to competition and the best practices …

The right to housing: a threat to property rights?

Nicolò Zanon, November 2015
In this IBL Occasional Paper, the author – a Justice of Italy’s Constitutional Court – discusses the legal and economic …

The dark side of Italy’s postal privatisation

Massimiliano Trovato and Alberto Mingardi // 28.10.2015
On the Cato at Liberty blog, Chris Edwards shared some hopeful thoughts on the fate of postal …

IBL Memo: Policy framework for climate and energy in the period from 2020 to 2030

 
Istituto Bruno Leoni, March 2014
 
Current obligations by the EU to decrease GHG emissions by 20% by 2020 are the most ambitious …

Are Green Jobs Real Jobs? The Case of Italy.

 
Luciano Lavecchia and Carlo Stagnaro, May 2010
 
The European Union has committed itself to increase the share of renewable energy up to …