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The opinion of Italians on tax evasion
Luigi, Cannari; D'Alessio Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2007
In this paper we use data from the Bank of Italy�s Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to study what Italian households think of tax evasion, and to estimate their propensity to evade taxes. This propensity turns out to be larger for the self-employed than for employees; within the...
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Universalism vs. particularism: a round trip from sociology to economics
Blasio, Guido de; Scalise, Diego; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2014
long-celebrated dimensions of social behaviour (trust, political awareness, and associational activities). Then, it shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105105
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Inequality and trust: new evidence from panel data
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2014
The relationship between inequality and trust has attracted the interest of many scholars who have found a negative … relationship between the two variables. However, the causal link from inequality to trust is far from being identified and the … findings, income inequality significantly and negatively affects generalised trust. However, this result only holds for …
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Social capital, economics and political economy
Barone, Guglielmo; Blasio, Guido de; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2014
The volume collects the essays presented at the conference "Social capital, economics and political economy" held in Rome on 27 June 2014. The first session analyzes definition and measurement issues about social capital. The second and third sessions examine its determinants and economic...
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Social capital and the cost of credit: evidence from a crisis
Mistrulli, Paolo Emilio; Vacca, Valerio - Banca d'Italia - 2015
Social capital is a key factor affecting the functioning of financial markets (Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales, 2004). However, the estimation of the effect of social capital on credit markets is notoriously difficult. In this paper we exploit the recent Lehman Brothers crisis and a rich dataset to...
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Extreme value theory for finance: a survey
Rocco, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2011
Extreme value theory is concerned with the study of the asymptotical distribution of extreme events, that is to say events which are rare in frequency and huge with respect to the majority of observations. Statistical methods derived from this theory have been increasingly employed in finance,...
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Identifying and tracking global, EU and Eurozone systemically important banks with public data
Masciantonio, Sergio - Banca d'Italia - 2013
This paper develops a methodology for identifying systemically important financial institutions based on that developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2011) and used by the Financial Stability Board in its yearly G-SIBs identification. The methodology uses publicly available data...
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Public sector efficiency and political culture
Giordano, Raffaela; Tommasino, Pietro - Banca d'Italia - 2011
The capability of a country's public sector to provide high-quality goods and services in a cost-effective way is crucial to fostering long-term growth. In this paper we study the determinants of public service efficiency (PSE) and in particular the role of citizens' political values. Indeed, we...
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Female labour market participation and cultural variables
Camussi, Silvia A. M. - Banca d'Italia - 2013
This article offers a descriptive analysis of the relationship between cultural factors and female participation in the labour market. Using attitudinal variables from the World Value Survey, the correlation between female labour market participation and two aspects of culture (religion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100402
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Social capital and inequality in Italy
Blasio, Guido de; Nuzzo, Giorgio - Banca d'Italia - 2012
In the last two decades the socio-economic literature has highlighted the importance of social capital (an ample set of social relations and cultural attitudes) for economic growth and the wellbeing of citizens. The literature broadly suggests a negative correlation between social capital and...
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