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We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...
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Sono numerose le architetture di database alla base di software per l'ottimizzazione dell'attivita' di fund raising, strategica per le organizzazioni non profit. Con la realizzazione di un'analisi comparativa dei principali prodotti, si intende fornire uno strumento operativo per la scelta tra...
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Using a longitudinal data set of balance sheets of 504 non profit and for-profit firms operating in the social residential sector in Italy, we investigate the relationship between capital structure and type of enterprise. The nondistribution constraint typical of nonprofit organizations...
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Empirical evidence documents that other regarding activities (voluntary/charity work, helping friends/neighbours) done with other regarding motivations contribute positively and signi cantly to subjective wellbeing. The question is why only a re- stricted group of people performs these...
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There may be a nexus between card games and financial markets. Akerlof and Shiller (2010) wonder whether the decline in the number of bridge players and the growth in the number of poker players may have led to the current bad financial traders’practices which are responsible for the global...
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The process of globalisation affects more and more the life quality of people around the world. In particular it impinges in different ways upon their health. In its turn the health of people affects the demographic and economic growth as well as their sustainability. However, notwithstanding...
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In our model of ethical product differentiation two duopolists (a zero profit socially concerned producer and a profit maximizing producer) compete over prices and (costly) socially and environmentally responsible features of their products under a given law of motion of consumer habits. In a...
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Se si presta attenzione alla dimensione intersoggettiva delle interazioni tra agenti individuali, appare difficile negare che, per lungo tempo, la teoria economica di matrice neoclassica abbia coniugato un'apertura formale ad un ampio spettro di forme di socialita' con una chiusura sostanziale...
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Perche', nelle economie di mercato occidentali, esiste uno spazio socioeconomicamente rilevante che viene occupato dal cosiddetto "settore non profit"? L'obiettivo di questo contributo di riflessione e' quello di illustrare alcune delle principali ragioni argomentative che, adottando come punto...
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In questo saggio si espongono alcune ragioni giustificative dell'adozione, da parte di organizzazioni non profit (d'ora in poi, ONP), di uno strumento di rendicontazione sociale come il bilancio di missione. La tesi di fondo che intendiamo sviluppare e' sintetizzabile nei termini seguenti: e'...
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