The way we collectively discuss migration shapes citizens' perceptions of migrants and their influence on our society. This paper investigates whether a narrative about the positive impact of immigrants on the hosting economy affects natives' behaviour towards migrants. To shed light on the...

We characterize the optimal investment decision and the stock value of an unlevered firm that holds the non-standard option of improving the growth rate of cashflows from its assets in place upon incurring an irreversible cost. The firm's investment policy and equity price are studied as a...

Ad oltre dieci anni dalla prima direttiva europea e mentre il mercato finale è arrivato alla sua apertura totale il bilancio delle liberalizzazioni sul piatto della concorrenza e della regolamentazione non è esaltante. Le Autorità incaricate di promuovere la concorrenza nei momenti cruciali...

The problem of taking into account the quality attributes of different goods has a long tradition in economics A strand of literature deals with the environmental impacts in the measurement of efficiency and productivity growth. Färe et al. (1989) indeed started what has become now a relatively...

In this paper, we focus on a specific component of economically rel- evant trust, i.e. on what we call `institutionally produced generalized trust', defined as the amount of widespread trust (which is a public good for the economic system as a whole) endogenously and continuously gen- erated by...

The study of intergenerational mobility deals with questions regarding the opportunities of children and how their long run economic outcome is related to their family background. Most importantly, from a policy point of view, it is trying to understand the sources of persistence in economic...

Lo smaltimento dei rifiuti è uno dei principali problemi che le economie moderne debbono affrontare. In questo lavoro si è studiato il caso di una particolare categoria di rifiuti, quelli generati dalle apparecchiature elettriche ed elettroniche dismesse (RAEE), che sta da qualche tempo...