2012
15 November 2012
Pubblicato il 15 November 2012
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Abstract There may be a nexus between card games and financial markets. Akerlof and Shiller (2010) wonder whether the decline in the number of bridge players […]
31 October 2012
Pubblicato il 31 October 2012
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Social Innovation, generally acknowledged as the capacity to respond to emerging needs through new forms and/or models of collaboration, represents one of the fields in which […]
30 September 2012
Pubblicato il 30 September 2012
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Abstract The poor in developing countries are the most exposed to natural catastrophes and microfinance organizations may potentially ease their economic recovery. Yet, no evidence on […]
21 September 2012
Pubblicato il 21 September 2012
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Abstract The paper aims to analyse the role covered by “Mutual Benefit Societies” (hereinafter MBSs – it. trans. “Mutue Sanitarie Integrative”) in terms of “social innovation” […]
10 July 2012
Pubblicato il 10 July 2012
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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 June 2012
Pubblicato il 27 June 2012
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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 June 2012
Pubblicato il 20 June 2012
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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 June 2012
Pubblicato il 15 June 2012
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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 June 2012
Pubblicato il 14 June 2012
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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 June 2012
Pubblicato il 13 June 2012
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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 […]