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The evolution of large-scale cooperation among genetic strangers is a fundamental unanswered question in the social sciences. Behavioral economics has persuasively shown that so called ‘strong reciprocity’ plays a key role in accounting for the endogenous enforcement of cooperation. Insofar...
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Though risk attitude is central to economics and finance, relatively little is known about how it is formed and how it changes over time. Based on US data from a dedicated psycho-social module on lifestyle of the 2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we provide new evidence on the correlation...
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Introduzione al tema della IX edizione delle Giornate di Bertinoro per l'economia civile <p> Veniamo da un’epoca storica, quella della rivoluzione industriale, che ha generato un progresso senza precedenti in termini di benessere economico e di indicatori sociali se consideriamo i dati a livello...</p>
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Nella ricerca economica emerge con sempre più forza la convinzione che lo sviluppo sia un fenomeno multidimensionale e che la crescita del Pil (Prodotto Interno Lordo) sia solo una delle lenti attraverso cui guardare il progresso economico e sociale di un Paese. In realtà è antico il richiamo...
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In questo lavoro metto a fuoco il tema dell’impresa sociale intesa come un’organizzazione che accresce le capacità dei cittadini e che genera beni relazionali e capitale sociale. La tesi che avanzo è che nel Mezzogiorno la promozione dell’impresa sociale avrebbe l’effetto diretto di...
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Creditworthiness and trustworthiness are almost synonyms since the act of conferring a loan has the indirect effect of signaling the trustworthiness of the borrower. We test the creditworthiness-trustworthiness nexus in an investment game experiment on a sample of participants/non participants...
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Microfinance institutions are used to claim that their impact goes beyond money since rescuing from exclusion uncollateralized poor borrowers significantly affects their dignity, self-esteem, social recognition and, through it, life satisfaction. Our paper aims to verify indirectly this claim by...
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In Italy social enterprises include more than 7,000 institutions with around 250,000 workers serving more than three million people, a big share of which disadvantaged. Using the ICSI 2007 survey conducted by a pool of Italian universities on a representative sample of social enterprises, we...
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