Most recent empirical analyses of aggregate economic fluctuations rely on the implicit assumption that business cycles are all alike. This paper investigates this assumption for the long-run international data set of Backus and Kehoe and presents the results of statistical tests of the...

Questo lavoro ripercorre le diverse fasi dello sviluppo della teoria delle fluttuazioni economiche in prospettiva storica. L'obiettivo è di mostrare come le idee sulla natura e le cause delle fluttuazioni economiche si siano sviluppate nel corso del tempo, e come questo processo di sviluppo...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the informative content of indicators of trade exhibition activity for business cycle analysis. We analyse the comovements between alternative indicators of trade exhibition activity and reference variables at both aggregate and disaggregate...

Questo lavoro fornisce una valutazione del contenuto informativo di indicatori della attività fieristica per l'analisi e la previsione congiunturale. A tale scopo l'analisi utilizza la base dati di Fieramilano, studiando i comovimenti tra diversi indicatori dell'attività fieristica e variabili...

This paper presents the results of a survey-based experiment on the role of equity and efficiency for altruistic behavior. Using simple binary decisions for a representative pool of subjects, we find that both equity and efficiency are relevant for the decision to give. However, contrary to the...

C<sc>olombo</sc> E., M<sc>ichelangeli</sc> A. and S<sc>tanca</sc> L. <italic>La dolce vita</italic>: hedonic estimates of quality of life in Italian cities, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper investigates quality of life in Italian cities using the hedonic approach. It analyses micro-level data for housing and labour markets to estimate...

This paper presents an application of the hedonic approach to measure the monetary price of social relations. We use micro data for housing and labor markets in the 103 Italian province capitals to estimate the price of relational amenities and construct monetary indices of quality of relational...

This paper investigates opinion dynamics and social in uence in directed communication networks. We study the theoretical properties of a boundedly rational model of opinion formation in which individuals aggregate the information they receive from their neighbors by using weights that are a...