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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385405
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Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study
Haeringer, Guillaume; Calsamiglia, Caterina; Klijn, Flip - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects' incentives are drastically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008015
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The Political Economy of Privatization
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Pinotti, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role of political institutions in privatization. The empirical testing relies on a new political database with continuous and time-varying measures of the political-institutional setting, and of the partisan orientation of the executive. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385457
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Bounded Rationality and Voting Decisions Exploring a 160-Year Period
Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848–2009), we investigate whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904923
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On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union
Barbera, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230814
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The Right Amount of Trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642148
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Social Capital and Political Accountability
Nannicini, Tommaso; Stella, Andrea; Tabellini, Guido; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
In this paper, we empirically investigate a channel through which social capital may improve economic wellbeing and the functioning of institutions: political accountability. The main idea is that voters who share norms of generalized morality demand higher standards of behavior on their elected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465520
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How (not) to Choose Peers in Studying Groups
Gall, Thomas; Amann, Roland - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper analyzes social group formation when agents are subject to peer effects within groups increasing human capital and instantaneous utility. When agents are heterogeneous on two dimensions, ability and social skills, and monetary payments are not feasible the model predicts segregation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570263
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Short and Long-term Effects of Environmental Tax Reform
Oueslati, Walid - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of an environmental tax reform in a growing economy. A model of endogenous growth based on human capital accumulation is used to numerically simulate the growth effects of different environmental tax reforms and compute their impact on welfare in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904908
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Reconsidering The Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime
Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Using an overlapping generation model à la Blanchard (1985) with human capital accumulation, this article demonstrates that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385426