This paper investigates the role played by the cultural norms of particularism and universalism for collusive bribery. In our theoretical framework, the act of proposing or demanding a bribe violates a commonly held social norm, thus producing a psychological cost. By lowering this psychological...

Questo lavoro fornisce una valutazione del contenuto informativo di indicatori della attività fieristica per l'analisi e la previsione congiunturale. A tale scopo l'analisi utilizza la base dati di Fieramilano, studiando i comovimenti tra diversi indicatori dell'attività fieristica e variabili...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the informative content of indicators of trade exhibition activity for business cycle analysis. We analyse the comovements between alternative indicators of trade exhibition activity and reference variables at both aggregate and disaggregate...

Questo lavoro ripercorre le diverse fasi dello sviluppo della teoria delle fluttuazioni economiche in prospettiva storica. L'obiettivo è di mostrare come le idee sulla natura e le cause delle fluttuazioni economiche si siano sviluppate nel corso del tempo, e come questo processo di sviluppo...

Most recent empirical analyses of aggregate economic fluctuations rely on the implicit assumption that business cycles are all alike. This paper investigates this assumption for the long-run international data set of Backus and Kehoe and presents the results of statistical tests of the...

This paper presents the results of a survey-based experiment on the role of equity and efficiency for altruistic behavior. Using simple binary decisions for a representative pool of subjects, we find that both equity and efficiency are relevant for the decision to give. However, contrary to the...

This Paper presents firm level evidence on the dynamics of non-manual wage premia and employment shares in Italian manufacturing during the nineties. We find that the relative stability of aggregate wage premia and employment shares hides offsetting disaggregate forces. First, while technical...

This paper investigates behavior in the Traveler's Dilemma game and isolates deviations from textbook predictions caused by di®erences in welfare perceptions and strategic miscalculations. It presents the results of an experimental analysis based on a 2x2 design where the own and the other...