Working Paper

15 Novembre 2013

129 – Corporate social responsibility and profit volatility: theory and empirical evidence

Abstract Corporate social responsibility implies extra care for the wellbeing of stakeholders different from shareholders. In our theoretical model we show that, when this principle implies […]
8 Novembre 2013

128 – The heterogeneity of wellbeing “expenditure” preferences

Abstract With an online survey on major Italian newspapers we ask respondents to simulate the typical policymaker decision, that is, the dilemma of allocating scarce financial […]
25 Ottobre 2013

127 – La ricerca di nuove prospettive e strategie dell’intervento pubblico

Abstract Il tema proposto mi dà la possibilità di affrontare alcune problematiche inerenti l’individuazione delle modalità di acquisizione, erogazione e gestione dei servizi pubblici locali di […]
15 Ottobre 2013

126 – The Legal Origins of Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract The legal origin literature documents that civil and common law traditions have different impact on rules and economic outcomes. We contribute to this literature by […]
24 Luglio 2013

125 – The Silver Lining Of Cooperation

Abstract Cooperatives are characterised by mutual-benefit coordination mechanisms aimed at the fulfilment of members’ participation rights. This paper explores the institutional elements that regulate individual behaviour […]
23 Luglio 2013

124 – Intrinsic Motivation in the Labor Market: Not Too Much, Thank You

Abstract We study the screening problem of a firm that needs to hire a worker to produce output and that observes neither the productive ability nor […]
15 Luglio 2013

123 – The Lemons Problem in a Labor Market with Intrinsic Motivation

Abstract We study the Lemons Problem when workers have private information on both their skills and their intrinsic motivation for the job offered by firms in […]
3 Luglio 2013

122 – Fair Trade impact and the price fetish

ABSTRACT We here present the main final results coming from four different on-the-field fair trade impact studies, confronting them with the most recent literature and deriving […]
27 Marzo 2013

121- Sociability is like skiing: multiple equilibria in education, sociability and life satisfaction

Abstract Empirical evidence documents that other regarding activities (voluntary/charity work, helping friends/neighbours) done with other regarding motivations contribute positively and signi cantly to subjective wellbeing. The […]
15 Marzo 2013

120 – Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being

Abstract We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of […]