Blar i Publikasjoner fra CRIStin - NTNU på forfatter "Iacono, Roberto"
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A comparison of fiscal rules for resource-rich economies
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2017)This paper produces a normative evaluation of fiscal rules for a resource-rich economy. Ad hoc fiscal rules might imply substantial welfare costs; the goal is to analyze the magnitude of these costs by quantitatively ... -
The Basilicata Wealth Fund
Iacono, Roberto; Viccaro, Mauro (Journal article, 2021)This paper introduces a novel resource policy for the resource-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. This policy consists of establishing a regionally-owned wealth fund (labeled for simplicity as the Basilicata Wealth ... -
Corporate Income Taxation and Inequality: Review and Discussion of Issues Raised in The triumph of injustice—How the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay (2019)
Faccio, Tommaso; Iacono, Roberto (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article surveys the literature on the relationship between corporate income taxation and inequality through the lens of the recent book The triumph of injustice—How the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay by ... -
The Evolution of Income Composition Inequality in Italy, 1989–2016
Iacono, Roberto; Ranaldi, Marco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We study the evolution of inequality in income composition in terms of capital and labor income in Italy between 1989 and 2016. We document a rise in the share of capital income accruing to the bottom of the distribution, ... -
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state
Smedsvik, Bård; Iacono, Roberto; D'Agostino, Antonella (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In Norway, immigrants receive higher levels of social assistance than natives. How can we explain this difference? After controlling for differences in take-up rates through a two-step Heckman procedure, we attempt to ... -
(In)visible Sanctions: Micro-level Evidence on Compulsory Activation for Young Welfare Recipients
Iacono, Roberto; Smedsvik, Bård (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Since the early years of activation and workfare in the 1990s, the use of welfare conditionality and benefit sanctions has been proposed among the necessary solutions to ensure the efficiency of welfare policy by reinforcing ... -
A Micro Perspective on r > g
Iacono, Roberto; Palagi, Elisa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)By exploiting large-scale administrative data on income and estimated personal wealth in Norway from 2010 to 2018, this paper establishes the first micro-level analysis of the difference between the real return on wealth ... -
On the Interplay between Intergenerational Transfers and Natural Resources
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This paper studies an overlapping generations model with selfish agents, natural resources and human capital externalities. The initial result is to quantify the economic effects of intergenerational transfers by comparing ... -
Still the Lands of Equality? Heterogeneity of Income Composition in the Nordics, 1975–2016
Iacono, Roberto; Palagi, Elisa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)According to standard measures of income inequality, the Nordic countries rank among the most equal economies in the world. This paper studies whether and how this picture changes when the focus is on inequality of income ... -
The Dutch disease revisited: absorption constraint and learning by doing
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2017)This paper revisits the Dutch disease by analyzing the general equilibrium effects of a resource shock on a dependent economy, both in a static and dynamic setting. The novel aspect of this study is to incorporate in one ... -
The Nordic Model of Economic Development and Welfare: Recent Developments and Future Prospects
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2018)The stylised evidence from the Welfare State Sustainability (WSS) ratios points to a decrease in the future sustainability of public welfare spending in the Nordic countries. -
The Norwegian Oil Bonanza and the Scandinavian Model in Comparative Perspective
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2018)This paper aims at highlighting the effects of large natural resource endowments on the institutions of the so-called Scandinavian or Nordic model, through a comparative quantitative case study. Focusing on two key features ... -
The wage curve across the wealth distribution
Iacono, Roberto; Ranaldi, Marco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper studies the relationship between wages and the unemployment rate across the wealth distribution. Using microdata from Norway covering the entire population of residents between 2000 and 2015, we introduce four ...