Social Impact

12 January 2022

190 – A new model to design and evaluate the multidimensional impact: the NeXt Impact®

Leonardo Becchetti, University of Rome Tor Vergata Luca Raffaele, NeXt Nuova Economia per Tutti Maristella Cacciapaglia, CeSVa NeXt Nuova Economia per Tutti Lorenzo Semplici, CeSVa NeXt […]
23 March 2021

185 – The social impact of living indexes: the case of Next

Abstract The design of proper environmental and social indicators is one of the most critical challenges when monitoring and implementing corporate and government policy measures toward […]
21 June 2018

Impact investing for climate change

Paolo Venturi (AICCON CEO) and Giorgia Perra (AICCON Research) with the support of the Italian Sustainable Investment Forum (Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile or FFS) Some […]
13 March 2017

From foresight to welfare practices

Report on driving forces One central aim of the futures studies is to help understand the future and to support planning and responsible decision making. In […]
22 September 2015

143 – The Impact of Redistribution Mechanisms in the Vote with the Wallet Game: Experimental Results

Abstract We use the Vote-with-the-Wallet game (VWG) to model socially or environmentally responsible consumption, an increasingly relevant but still under-researched phenomenon. Based on a theoretical model […]
9 June 2015

140 – Fair Trade certification Italian style. The Altromercato experience

Abstract Certification is one of the most hotly debated issues in the fair trade international movement. Fair Trade oriented consumers and public administrations demand more and […]
4 June 2015

Cohesive Economy. The Italian Way to Create Shared Value

The key role played by the firms in building a new kind of welfare is going to become even more relevant, especially as actors able to […]
13 June 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 June 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 […]
11 June 2012

104 – Globalization: guidance from Franciscan economic thought and “Caritas in Veritate”

Abstract This essay pursues a threefold purpose: first, to sketch the historical period that provides the backdrop to the formation of Franciscan economic thought; second, to […]