The forced remote working relationships experienced during the COVID-19 pandemics made employers and employees more aware of the productivity gains arising from the digital revolution. To investigate the characteristics of such gains, we model firms’ production allowing companies to choose...

Climate challenge can be modelled as a multiplayer prisoner's dilemma where any ecological action - i.e., purchasing an electric car or adopting sustainable life styles - is a costly action in terms of economic resources, time, and effort for individuals. According to the well-known embedded...

Climate challenge can be modelled as a multiplayer prisoner’s dilemma where ecological action – e.g., house retrofit, purchase of a lower emission car or adoption of sustainable life-styles – is costly in terms of economic resources, time, and effort. The prisoner’s dilemma structure of...

We investigate factors affecting happiness on a sample of Italian secondary school students. We find that money matters since family's house ownership, mortgages and (class) relative wealth significantly affect life satisfaction. Other crucial factors are geographical residence (those living in...

We outline a methodology which aims to give an answer to the widespread demand of impact analyses by regulators or by funding agencies which need to evaluate the current and past performance of development projects and may lack time series evidence. We devise a retrospective panel data approach...