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The stagnation of the Italian economy over the last two decades is widely documented. During this period, the world economy has become highly integrated, and foreign outs [...]
English | 08 February 2016 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on the Italian directorship network of the corporate governance reform that was introduced in Italy in 2011 to prevent [...]
English | 01 February 2016 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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This paper studies the effect of the Spanish Reconquest, a military campaign that aimed to expel the Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula, on the population of its most imp [...]
English | 15 September 2015 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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The article proposes a social network analysis of the main European capitalisms and its correspondence with an index of economic freedom. The analysis relates to two kind [...]
English | 01 September 2015 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for int [...]
English | 23 December 2014 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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We develop a continuous time dynamic game to provide with a benchmark theory of Arab Spring-type events. We consider a resource-dependent economy with two interacting gro [...]
English | 19 December 2014 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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Volunteering is a dominant social force that signals a healthy state. However, although the literature on volunteering is extensive, knowledge on how life’s discontinui [...]
English | 18 December 2014 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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This paper analyses the statistical distribution of war size. We find strong support for a Pareto-type distribution (power law) using data from different sources (COW and [...]
English | 28 November 2014 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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Understanding companies’ preferences for various domestic policy instruments is crucial to designing and planning Sectoral Market Mechanism (SMM) in China. Based on a d [...]
English | 28 October 2014 | Working or Discussion Paper |
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Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Sec [...]
English | 03 October 2014 | Working or Discussion Paper |