Many European countries have recently experienced a substantial increase in the proportion of immigrants in their populations. The incidence of resident foreigners calculated at a national level does not provide information on the local spatial and temporal distribution of the phenomenon. This...

We propose a model to estimate the direct and indirect effects of the relationship between subjective well-being and satisfaction in various domains of life using a partial least squares path modelling approach in a structural equation model framework. A drawback of these models is that they...

In this paper, we investigate the impact that spatial and micro-economic variables have on the probability that a household goes on holiday. In doing so, we propose two alternative modelling specifications: a classic discrete choice model and a semiparametric logistic model. The semiparametric...

The aim of this paper was to estimate the effect of obesity on the employment probability for Italian men and women accounting for both observed and unobserved confounding. We use microdata collected by the Italian National Statistical Office for the year 2009 during a multi-scope survey of...

A growing number of academic studies on public health have highlighted that participation in sports can help prevent people from becoming overweight. Estimates of the effect of sports on the risk of overweight based on sample surveys have primarily controlled for a number of socio-behavioural...

Investors have a growing awareness that climate transition risks (such as carbon pricing policy) are among the new risk drivers of the financial system. One of the relevant implications of a shock in carbon price is the increase in business costs, which may diminish profitability and affect...

Several studies have shown a positive correlation between investment in machinery and equipment (M&E) and economic growth. For this reason, it is very important for policy-makers to study the dynamics of investments and their expected evolution over time through forecast scenarios. The paper...

We investigate Okun's law in some European countries over 1985-2020 period, with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare estimates using traditional OLS and an M-robust estimator within a rolling regression framework. Firstly, we found that the M-estimator outperforms the OLS estimator in...

I investigate the exposure of sectoral equity portfolios to climate transition risks by augmenting a three-factor asset pricing model with a green-minus-brown (GMB) factor as a proxy. I estimate the relationship between risk factors and excess returns within an additive mixed model...

We estimated the effects of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores on the credit ratings of firms in the sectors of manufacturing, mining and quarrying, wholesale and retail trade, information and communication, and real estate activities and located in North America, Europe, and...