infonet-economy

This study provides evidence of government distortion of news coverage among independently owned media outlets in a democratic regime. It uses data from 1946 to 2010 and documents that U.S. news coverage of human rights abuses committed by foreign governments was associated with membership on the United Nations Security Council and the degree of political alliance with the United…

We study the investment of criminal organizations in the legal economy. We focus on Italy, a country historically plagued by a conspicuous presence of mafia-type organizations. By using the exogenous credit contraction imposed by the 2007 financial crisis we highlight how the consequences for newly established enterprises have been less severe in areas with organized crime. Although…

Aversive emotions are likely to be a key source of irrational human decision-making but still little is known about the underlying neural circuitry. Here, we show that aversive emotions distort trust decisions and cause significant changes in the associated neural circuitry. They reduce trust and suppress trust-specific activity in left temporoparietal junction (TPJ). In addition,…

Adaptation facilitates neural representation of a wide range of diverse inputs, including reward values. Adaptive value coding typically relies on contextual information either obtained from the environment or retrieved from and maintained in memory. However, it is unknown whether having to retrieve and maintain context information modulates the brain’s capacity for value adaptation…

This paper develops an experimental approach to measure competition among intermediaries in agricultural markets, based on the random allocation of subsidies to traders. We show that, in individual-level randomizations with competitive spillovers, treatment-control differences in prices can inform an intuitive test of the degree of differentiation among firms. In the context of the…

Le but de cet article est d’explorer et de ressembler les éléments essentiels de la construction d’une marque forte dans le luxe. Cette étude se base sur les interviews semi-directives auprès des experts de l’industrie horlogère suisse de luxe. Contribution de cet article dans la discussion académique est dans l’approche «industriel» du développement du cadre conceptuel. Le résultat…

Die vom US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien betriebene Spitzenschule macht vor, wie sich akademische Exzellenz mit vergleichsweise geringen Mitteln erreichen lässt – doch es gibt Grenzen der Effizienz.