Hardening a soft budget constraint through 'upward devolution' to a supranational institution
Subtitle: the case of Italian state-owned firms and and the European Union
By: Elisabetta Bertero and Laura Rondi.
Contributors: Rondi, Laura.; World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Series: WIDER discussion paper -- no.2002/16
Publisher: United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- European Union countries; Government business enterprises -- Italy -- Finance; Budget deficits -- Italy; European federation; Supranationalism
Notes: "January 2002."

Includes bibliographical references.