In recent years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that happiness research is able to contribute important insights for...

Sono esaminati alcuni tentativi di collegare i fattori economici e politici nell’ambito dell’economia internazionale. La base analitica è la teoria economica della Politica delle Scelte Pubbliche. Sono esplicitamente considerati e stimati econometricamente le istituzioni e i processi...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the governance structure of monasteries to gain new insights and apply them to solve agency problems of modern corporations. In an historic analysis of crises and closures it asks, if Benedictine monasteries were and are capable of solving agency problems....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on a widely used yet scarcely investigated form of incentive, awards. The paper seeks to explore, first, whether awards can be used to motivate higher performance in academia and volunteering, and second, how often and in what forms awards...

Series foreword -- Preface -- Major developments -- Research on happiness -- The relationship of happiness to utility -- How income affects happiness -- How unemployment affects happiness -- How inflation and inequality affect happiness -- Pushing ahead -- The public sphere -- Self-employment...

Leading economics scholars consider the influence of psychology on economics, discussing topics including pro-social behavior, conditional trust, neuroeconomics, procedural utility, and happiness research.