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Changing business perceptions regarding biodiversity: from impact mitigation towards new strategies and practices
Houdet, Joël; Trommetter, Michel; Weber, Jacques - HAL - 2009
Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to reduce their negative impacts on living systems. In response, business attitudes, behaviors and strategies … regarding biodiversity are progressively changing, suggesting that interactions between business and biodiversity could go …
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Accounting for changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services from a business perspective
Houdet, Joël; Pavageau, Charlotte; Trommetter, Michel; … - HAL - 2009
a business perspective. First, we seek to analyze how Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) may be used by firms to … changes in business accounting and reporting standards. Because this would imply significant changes in business information …
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A Rational Irrational Man?
Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2006
A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794157
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Finance, Human Capital and Infrastructure: An Empirical Investigation of Post-War Italian Growth
Ferri, G.; Mattesini, F. - Banca d'Italia - 1997
Post-war Italy provides an interesting case to test for recent contributions on economic growth which play down the relevance of physical capital per se and stress its complementarity with infrastructure and less tangible factors such as finance and human capital. In truth, behind the remarkable...
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Production or consumption? Disentangling the skill-agglomeration connection
Blasio, Guido de - Banca d'Italia - 2006
To explain the concentration of human capital in cities, urban theory conjectures that the metropolitan scale provides two sources of returns for the more educated; production benefits, both in terms of wages and non-monetary gains, and consumption benefits. By exploiting a unique survey on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005467307
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Labor market pooling: evidence from Italian industrial districts
Blasio, Guido De; Addario, Sabrina Di - Banca d'Italia - 2002
The paper provides an empirical investigation of labor market pooling. The analysis concentrates on Italian industrial districts and shows that there is fragmentary evidence of a widespread wage premium. In particular, there is no evidence of district differentials for the returns to seniority...
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Human capital for growth: possible steps towards an upgrade of the Italian education system
Cipollone, Piero; Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2012
The problems of Italy�s education system mostly stem from its modus operandi and interactions with the expectations of families and students. The recent signs of improvement in Italian students� proficiency, plausibly reflecting greater emphasis on rigour, could be reinforced by making...
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Family background, self-confidence and economic outcomes
Filippin, Antonio; Paccagnella, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2012
In this paper we analyze the role played by self-confidence, modeled as beliefs about one�s ability, in shaping task choices. We propose a model in which fully rational agents exploit all the available information to update their beliefs using Bayes� rule, eventually learning their...
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Home or away? Gender differences in the effects of an expansion of tertiary education supply
Rizzica, Lucia - Banca d'Italia - 2013
The aim of this paper is to estimate the effects of the expansion of tertiary education supply on the educational choices of young Italian high school graduates. A quasi-experimental setting given by the reform of the tertiary education system implemented in 2001 is exploited. The reform was...
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Rethinking the crime reducing effect of education? Mechanisms and evidence from regional divides
Brilli, Ylenia; Tonello, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2015
We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates between different cohorts and at different ages that followed a reform that raised the school-leaving age in Italy. A 1 percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces...
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