A partire dai risultati dell’indagine “L’Italia del lavoro” – diretta e coordinate dall’IRES-CGIL – si è qui inteso osservare alcuni tratti descrittivi del modello di stratificazione e mobilità inter-generazionale riferito al sistema del lavoro dipendente in Italia (lavoratori...

La politeness del leader migliora le prestazioni di un gruppo alle prese con un compito complesso, come risolvere assieme un problema o prendere una decisione in una riunione? e la politeness di partecipanti diversi dal leader? Si tratta di quesiti di notevole interesse pratico. Se la politeness...

Our research aims to find out whether meditation has a positive impact on trust and cooperation. By comparing the behavior of agents exposed to meditation before playing an investment game to others not exposed, we find that the formers show more trust on average than the latters. Meditation...

This paper investigates the effect of counter-violence measures, adopted by Italian Government in 2007, on Italian Serie A gate attendance. Starting from the evidence of a negative trend in the average stadium presences, experienced by Italian football since the first 80s, an econometric...

We challenge the widely held belief that New-Keynesian models cannot predict optimal positive inflation rates. In fact these are justified by the Phelps argument that monetary financing can alleviate the burden of distortionary taxation. We obtain this result because, in contrast with previous...

Our paper aims to investigate conditional and unconditional motivations in investment games by using a counterfactual methodology and attitudinal survey and self-reported information about participants’ behavior. We have combined different methodologies to verify the coherence between...