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You've come a long way, baby. Effects of commuting times on couples' labour supply

Carta, Francesca; Philippis, Marta De - Banca d'Italia - 2015

This paper explores the effects of husbands' commuting time on their wives' labour market participation and on family time allocation. We develop a unitary family model of labour supply, which includes commuting times and household production. In a pure leisure model longer commuting time for...

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Economic Theory and Banking Regulation: The Italian Case (1861-1930s)

Gigliobianco, Alfredo; Giordano, Claire - Banca d'Italia - 2010

¿½ la Bagehot; the second (1921-23) confirmed - to no avail - the dangers congenital to bank-industry ties. The following … sub-period (1926-1930) was inaugurated by the first commercial bank regulation (1926) and responded to the prevailing … economists' call for restricting bank competition. The 1936 regulation, which inaugurated the approximately five-decade long …

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The Political Economy of Investor Protection

Tommasino, Pietro - Banca d'Italia - 2006

Why do some countries suffer from backward financial institutions and weak corporate governance rules? We show that, even if, overall, the economy would benefit corporate governance reforms, not all the agents would stand to gain from the improvement. In particular, entrepreneurs and firms that...

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Social mobility and endogenous cycles in redistribution

Zollino, Francesco - Banca d'Italia - 2004

By allowing median voterï¿½s location and preferred policy to change over time, a variety of redistributive policies results in the long-run with no unique relationship to inequality. Single outcome depends on the interaction between the pure economic structure and policy action in...

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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 Italyï¿½s Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to study what Italian …

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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...

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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

Social scientists, in particular sociologists, claim that the distinction between universalistic and particularistic values is relevant to explaining the social behaviour of individuals (and societies). This paper provides preliminary empirical evidence that supports the claim. It first defines...

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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 existing empirical evidence admittedly remains weak,...

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Arab banking - present and future challenges : conference, Union of Arab Banks, Rome, November 18, 1991

Dini, Lamberto - 1991

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