The paper is devoted to the assessment of the relevance of the they-come-to-play effect (CTPE, defined in the text). It employs both a real-effort setting and a questionnaire. The effect proves to be significant, albeit the results cannot be generalized straightforwardly. From the comparison...

Contingent valuation of public goods (or bads) is strongly biased due to the endowment effect and/or the status quo bias.

This paper shows the results of an experiment aiming to test the effect of taxation on the labour supply. Differently from previous experiments [Lévy-Garboua, L., Masclet, D., & Montmarquette, C. (2005). Fiscalité et offre de travail: Une étude experimentale. CIRANO, Montréal, working paper...

L’analisi economica di contesti micro-territoriali è di grande interesse per le scienze sociali, in quanto capace di contribuire all’interpretazione di processi sociali ed economici complessi spesso sottostanti a dinamiche macro-economiche. Scopo di questo studio è descrivere e analizzare...