Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154800 
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Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 36.1997
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The paper deals with the regulation of professions in Italy. It is a very traditional system of regulation based on inputs control. This regulation is clearly excessive for most of the professions. In fact, market failures - both in terms of information asymmetries and externalities - do not require and/or justify the present licensing system. Rather, for most of the professions, licensing should be substituted by a weaker certification system, operated by professional associations, that should lose their public law status. Competition between these associations, which would have a private character, could perform many of the functions, like control on malpractice and sanctioning which are currently delegated to the appropriate Orders. In fact, it is no longer true - at least for most of the professions - that output regulation is an inherently difficult task for professional services.
Subjects: 
Regulation
Professions
JEL: 
L44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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