Empirical evidence about innovation is doubtful in showing incumbent firms’ and new entrants’ attitude toward radical innovations. Moreover, theoretical works exhibit divergent conclusions when investigating the incentives to innovate. Our paper emphasizes the importance of distinguishing...

We measure ingroup bias in the context of real social groups operating in a slum and investigate which ingroup members’ features affect it. We find that higher homogeneity within the group and stronger relationship with the super-categorized group (the community of people living in the slum)...

The paper studies whether (and how) redistributive choices aim to reward others’ sacrifice of their own interest for the community’s sake and whether this introduces a trade-off between the willingness to reward cooperation and a pure meritocratic ideal. We design an online social preference...

We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence...