financial transfers may be motivated by altruism or by the expectation of future services. For this reason, we select a sample …

intergenerational altruism among Italian households. The Italian socio-economic framework represents an interesting ground to test for … altruism. Further, I evaluate how restrictive is the assumption of a zero correlation between the clan’s Euler errors and the …

selected and surveyed about four aspects of altruism: altruistic love, altruistic values, altruistic behaviors and empathy. We … entrepreneurs have a significant amount of altruism, and that they think that government decision makers (politicians and high …

In this article, the concept of Kantian Altruism in the writings of Ibn Khaldun is examined. Government efficiency … improves when Kantian Altruism becomes the characteristic of public decision makers. It is also argued that Kantian Altruism … coincides with the altruism in the writings of Ibn Khaldun. …

degree of altruism. In particular I experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way … was able to reduce the degree of altruism of a group of experimental subjects. The subjects were divided into groups and …. It was found that the introduction of a hierarchical structure generated a significant decrease in the rate of altruism …

more performant than other types of firms. This paper draws on altruism and on the theory of incentives contracting to … explain why family firms perform better. Assuming that altruism only exists in family firms, we show that the strength of …