Art. 2511 of the Italian Civil Code defines co-operatives as companies “with variable capital and mutual purpose”. Therefore main characteristics of co-operative companies are: capital variability and most of all the pursuit of a mutual purpose. The cooperative company, while pursuing a...

This Article takes stock of post-financial crisis regulatory developments to tell a tale of two markets within a political economy of financial regulation. The financial crisis stemmed from excessive risk-taking and dodgy practices in the subprime home mortgage market, a market that owed its...

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field experiment with Filipino migrants in Rome are used to examine remitting behavior...