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Ratanov, Nikita - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

The paper develops a class of Financial market models with jumps based on a Brownian motion, and inhomogeneous telegraph processes: random motions with alternating velocities. We assume that jumps occur when the velocities are switching. The distribution of such a process is described in detail....

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Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choices and Social Mobility

Piacentini, Mario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

This paper investigates the presence of a network externality which might explain the persistence of low schooling achievements among internal migrants. We test empirically whether young migrants schooling decisions are affected by the presence of covillagers at destination, using data on...

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Supplier-Buyer Proximity and Production to Order Choice

Casaburi, Lorenzo; Minerva, G. Alfredo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

We study the determinants of the firm-level choice to produce following an order placed by a downstream firm (production to order) or to produce in advance. We rationalize this choice through a simple theoretical model and apply it to a firm-level empirical analysis. Relying on a large panel of...

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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in or-der to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...

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Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique

Gallego, Juan Miguel; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

There is a large literature pointing to community participation and social networks as salient components of household … associated with social networks, or whether labor migration displaces social informal institutions in village economies at origin …. This paper directly tests the role of international migration in shaping participation in groups and social networks by …

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Strategia ed ecologie tra risorse, fiducia e relazioni nell’impresa-network

PILOTTI, Luciano - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

In that work we explore the ability to learning-by-learning of the SME-network as relational capital of sustainable advantage. The nature of the most of those abilities connect resources and competences useful to realize successful of the firm in the long run in the form of intangibles and...

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Gas thin markets:insights from bargaining and networks models

GALIZZI, Matteo Maria - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

Several results from bargaining and networks microeconomic literature are presented and their main insights and … negotiations in bilateral oligopolies. Models of price formation both in fixed and in endogenously formed buyers-sellers networks …

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Learning at the boundaries for industrial districts between exploitation of local resources and the exploration of global knowledge flows

BELUSSI, Fiorenza; PILOTTI, Luciano; SEDITA, Silvia Rita - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

districts - IDs), through informal social networks (communities of practice - CoPs), and firms networks, in an osmotic process … combines forms of localised learning with learning at the boundaries, through the access to pipelines (FDI, firms networks …

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The Formation of Migrant Networks

Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...

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Networks, Sorting and Self-selection of Ecuadorian Migrants

Bertoli, Simone - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

This paper provides new empirical evidence about the influence exerted by migration networks upon migrants‟ self … geographical variability in the size of migration networks. As Ecuadorian migrants opted for a variety of destination countries in … the aftermath of the crisis, we estimate a multinomial logistic model to assess the impact of migration networks on both …

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