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Al sistema Italia serve un'agenzia per la ricerca
È necessaria una svolta radicale nella politica del governo su ricerca e innovazione. Le evidenze più recenti della scienza economica testimoniano che la crescita di lungo periodo ha due motori.
Institution partenaire
Italiano / 22/04/2016
Job history, work attitude, and employability
We study whether employment history can provide information about a worker’s non-cognitive skills - in particular, about “work attitude,” or the ability to work well and cooperatively with others. We conjecture that, holding all else equal, a worker’s frequent job changes can indicate poorer work attitude, and that this information is transmitted in labor markets through employment…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2016
The influences of social context on the measurement of distributional preferences
Different social contexts have been used when measuring distributional preferences. This could be problematic as contextual variance may inadvertently muddle the measurement process. We use a within-subjects design and measure distributional preferences in resource allocation tasks with role certainty, role uncertainty, decomposed games, and matrix games. Results show that, at the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2016
Does the absence of human sellers bias bidding behavior in auction experiments?
This paper studies the impact of the presence of human subjects in the role of a seller on bidding in experimental second-price auctions. Overbidding is a robust finding in second- price auctions, and spite among bidders has been advanced as an explanation. If spite extends to the seller, then the absence of human sellers who receive the auction revenue may bias upwards the bidding…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2016
Priming in economics
Conceptual priming has become an increasingly popular tool in economics. Here, we review the literature that uses priming in incentivized experiments to study economic questions. We mainly focus on the role of social identity, culture, and norms in shaping preferences and behavior. We also discuss recently raised objections to priming research and conclude with promising avenues for…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2016
Hidden persuaders: do small gifts lubricate business negotiations?
Gift-giving customs are ubiquitous in social, political, and business life. Legal regulation and industry guidelines for gifts are often based on the assumption that large gifts have the potential to influence behavior and create confl of interest, but small gifts do not. However, scientific evidence on the impact of small gifts on business relationships is scarce. We conducted a…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2016
Mortality inequality: the good news from a county-level approach
In this essay, we ask whether the distributions of life expectancy and mortality have become generally more unequal, as many seem to believe, and we report some good news. Focusing on groups of counties ranked by their poverty rates, we show that gains in life expectancy at birth have actually been relatively equally distributed between rich and poor areas. Analysts who have…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2016
Saving more in groups: field experimental evidence from Chile
We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microcredit clients. The first experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group, and non-financial rewards, increases savings in a new savings account significantly. The number of deposits grows 3.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2016
Mastering temptation: Behavioral, neuraland physiological investigations of self-control in goal-directed choice
Self-control is a key skill that has important implications for life success. Parallel research programs in psychology, economics, and most recently neuroeconomics have identified important correlates and outcomes of self-control. Among those are for example educational achievements, financial stability, and health. However, the cognitive mechanisms underlying self-control remain…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2016
"Wie wenn Ronaldo zum FC Zürich wechseln würde"
Volkswirtschafts-Professor Ernst Fehr über den Ruf der Forschung in Zürich, die Schweizer als geborene Ökonomen und die Nationalbank im Labor.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 20/03/2016
Shared neural basis of social and non-social reward deficits in chronic cocaine users
Changed reward functions have been proposed as a core feature of stimulant addiction, typically observed as reduced neural responses to non-drug-related rewards. However, it was unclear yet how specific this deficit is for different types of non-drug rewards arising from social and non-social reinforcements. We used functional neuroimaging in cocaine users to investigate explicit…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/03/2016
"Fairness ist wichtig"
Der Verhaltensökonom hat die Wissenschaften bereits revolutioniert. Nun fordert Ernst Fehr auch von Bankmanagern und Politikern ein Umdenken.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 10/03/2016
An envelope approach to tournament design
Optimal rank-order tournaments have traditionally been studied using a first-order approach. The present analysis relies instead on the construction of an "upper envelope" over all incentive compatibility conditions. lt turns out that the first-order approach is not innocuous. For example, in contrast to the traditional understanding, tournaments may be dominated by piece…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2016
Efficient computation of adjusted p-values for resampling-based stepdown multiple testing
There has been a recent interest in reporting p-values adjusted for the resampling-based stepdown multiple testing procedures proposed in Romano and Wolf (2005a,b). The original papers only describe how to carry out multiple testing at a fixed significance level. Computing adjusted p-values instead in an efficient manner is not entirely trivial. Therefore, this paper fills an…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2016
Dynamic R&D networks with process and product innovations
We analyze the endogenous formation of R&D networks, where firms are active in different product markets and can benefit from R&D spillovers form collaborating firms within or across different industries. R&D spillovers help firms to introduce process innovations to lower their production costs. Product innovations introduce an escape-competition effect, through which…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2016
The brain’s functional network architecture reveals human motives
In humans, two completely different motives may nevertheless lead to exactly the same behavior. Because we can't directly observe motives, modern economists often completely disregard them. However, Hein et al., using fMRI, show that different human motives can yield observable responses in the brain (see the Perspective by Gluth and Fontanesi). In empathy-based and reciprocity-…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2016
Quantitative models of commercial policy
What tariffs would countries impose if they did not have to fear any retaliation? What would occur if there was a complete breakdown of trade policy cooperation? What would be the outcome if countries engaged in fully efficient trade negotiations? And what would happen to trade policy cooperation if the world trading system had a different institutional design? While such questions…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2016
Mirrlees meets Diamond-Mirrlees
We show that the Diamond and Mirrlees (1971) linear tax model contains the Mirrlees (1971) nonlinear tax model as a special case. In this sense, the Mirrlees model is an application of Diamond-Mirrlees. We also derive the optimal tax formula in Mirrlees from the Diamond-Mirrlees formula. In the Mirrlees model, the relevant compensated cross-price elasticities are zero, providing a…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2016
Optimal taxation with rent-seeking
We develop a framework for optimal taxation when agents can earn their income both in traditional activities, where private and social products coincide, and in rent-seeking activities, where private returns exceed social returns either because they involve the capture of pre-existing rents or because they reduce the returns to traditional work. We characterize Pareto optimal income…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2016
The political color of fiscal responsability
We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model that yields testable implications about the fiscal policy run by governments of different political color. Successive generations of voters choose taxation, expenditure, and government debt through repeated elections. Voters are heterogeneous by age and by the intensity of their preferences for public good provision. The political…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2016
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