Becchetti Leonardo

20 July 2009

63 – Virtuous interactions in removing exclusion: the link between foreign market access and access to education

Abstract We devise a retrospective panel data approach to evaluate the effects of fair trade affiliation on the schooling decisions of a sample of Thai organic […]
20 January 2009

60 – Revisiting the economy by taking into account the different dimensions of well-being

Abstract In standard economic models benevolent governments are the unique actors in charge to tackle the problem of reconciling individual with social wellbeing in presence of […]
20 January 2008

48 – Does money affect happiness and self-esteem? The poor borrowers’ perspective in a quasi-natural experiment

Abstract Research on the nexus between life satisfaction and income has looked at lottery winners or postcommunism transition to document that exogenous changes in income generate […]
20 June 2007

44 – Sociability and Happiness

Abstract The standard specification of utility functions in economic models usually neglects the effect of sociability on happiness. Our level and first difference panel estimates show […]
20 October 2005

21 – Corporate Social Responsibility And Profit Maximizing Behaviour

Abstract We examine the behavior of a profit maximizing monopolist in a horizontal differentiation model in which consumers differ in their degree of social responsibility (SR) […]
18 May 2005

15 – The game of social responsibility: pioneers, imitators and social welfare

Abstract In this paper we outline a model of horizontal product differentiation where two duopolists – a profit maximising producer (PMP) and a “socially responsible” “fair […]
20 February 2005

8 – The dynamics of ethical product differentiation and the habit formation of socially responsible consumers

Abstract In our model of ethical product differentiation two duopolists (a zero profit socially concerned producer and a profit maximizing producer) compete over prices and (costly) […]