2012

7 Settembre 2012

L’investimento sostenibile e responsabile: da dove viene e dove sta andando

Il Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI), cioè l’Investimento Sostenibile e Responsabile (ISR) è un autentico Giano bifronte. Riunisce in sé due dimensioni distinte, seppure non rivali, […]
7 Agosto 2012

Le politiche sociali nell’era della vulnerabilità

Ripensare le politiche sociali secondo il principio di vulnerabilità Cosa significa al giorno d’oggi ripensare le politiche pubbliche, in generale, e sociali, in particolare? Quali sono […]
27 Luglio 2012

112 – Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Abstract Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and nonprofit sector as well as in firms that engage […]
10 Luglio 2012

111 – The internal and external governance of cooperatives: effective membership and consistency of values

Abstract Cooperatives are characterised by mutual-benefit coordination mechanisms aimed at the fulfilment of members’ participation rights and welfare, consistently with the normative principles of democratic involvement, […]
27 Giugno 2012

110 – What is new in the finance-growth nexus: OTC derivatives, bank assets and growth

Abstract We investigate the finance-growth nexus before and around the global financial crisis using for the first time OTC derivative data in growth estimates. Beyond the […]
20 Giugno 2012

109 – Increasing Voluntary Contribution in a Public Goods Game through a Behavioral Policy Implementation: an Experimental Test

Abstract The aim of this work is to show that in a repeated Public Goods Game situation it is possible, through the implementation of a properly […]
15 Giugno 2012

108 – Does workers’ control affect firm survival? Evidence from Uruguay

Abstract Worker-managed firms (WMFs) represent a marginal proportion of total firms and aggregate employment in most countries. The bulk of firms in real economies is ultimately […]
14 Giugno 2012

107 – In the Nation We Trust: National Identity as a Substitute for Religion

Abstract We construct an index for national identity using information from the World Values Survey on peoples’ attitudes concerning politics and to the state itself. We […]
13 Giugno 2012

106 – The role of parental cognitive aging in the intergenerational mobility of cognitive abilities

Abstract This paper studies intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities from parents to children. We create a measure of parental cognitive evolu- tion across time, which combines […]
12 Giugno 2012

105 – Hard to Forget: Longlasting Effects of Social Capital Accumulation Shocks

Abstract Very few contributions have dealt with the analysis of specific determinants of social capital accumulation and destruction. Even if limited in scale, the analysis of […]