Publications des institutions partenaires
Persistent and transient productive inefficiency in a regulated industry : electricity distribution
In: Energy Economics, 2018, vol. 69, p. 325-334
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Move people or move the plant? : Business travel and relocation choices of firms
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO007.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
The role of culture in long-term care arrangement decisions
In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, vol. 143, p. 186-200
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Strategies to access and manage donations for humanitarian operations
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO006.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Habits and rational behavior in residential electricity demand
In: Resource and Energy Economics, 2018, vol. 52, p. 137-152
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Corporate governance issues and performance of initial public offerings
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO005.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Understanding the effects of communication and engagement in a social marketing intervention on children’s eating behavior : design, measurement and evaluation
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017COM014.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
What drives the rise of antidepressant consumption? Evidence from Switzerland
What drives the rise of antidepressant consumption? Evidence from Switzerland
Masiero, Giuliano ; Mazzonna, Fabrizio...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/02/2019
Abandon ship? : party brands and politicians’ responses to a political scandal
Abandon ship? : party brands and politicians’ responses to a political scandal
Daniele, Gianmarco ; Galletta, Sergio...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/02/2019
Essays in asset pricing
My dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on a different area of research in asset pricing. The first chapter's focal point is the measurement of the premium for jump risks in index option markets. The second chapter is devoted to non- parametric measurement of pricing kernel dispersion. The third chapter contributes to the literature on latent state variable...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/11/2017
Abandon ship?: party brands and politicians’ responses to a political scandal
In this article, we study politicians’ – rather than voters’ – responses to the main political scandal in Italian recent history (Tangentopoli), and overcome endogeneity concerns by analysing the local implications of this national corruption scandal. We find that local politicians withdraw support for incumbents in parties hit by Tangentopoli – inducing increased political...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/08/2017
Costly institutions as substitutes: novelty and limits of the Coasian approach
One of the main contributions of Ronald H. Coase was to demonstrate how mainstream economics was based on a contradictory amalgam of costly physical inputs and free institutional resources, and to give origin to the economics of institutions: each institution is a mode of allocation and organization of economic resources that is to be investigated. In particular, none of the...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2017
Gender gaps in policy making: evidence from direct democracy in Switzerland
This paper uses a unique data set on individual voting decisions to shed new light on gender gaps in policy making. Our analysis focuses on Switzerland, the world leader in direct democracy, where all citizens directly decide on a broad range of policies at the ballot box. Analysing all federal votes held between 1981 and 2003, we show that there are large gender gaps in the areas of...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2017
Positional goods and Robert Lee Hale's legal economics
The legal realist Robert Lee Hale offered a definition of freedom as a zero-sum game: each volitional freedom implies some degree of coercion over other people's freedom, and at the same time one's freedom is subject to some degree of control and coercion by others. The objective of our work is to develop this idea along with the theory of positional goods. This allows us to...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2017
What drives the substitutability between native and foreign workers?: evidence about the role of language
This paper investigates the role of language in determining the degree of substitutability between foreign and native workers. To this end, we focus on Switzerland, an immigration-receiving country with four official languages spoken, three of which in common with bordering countries. We modify the model proposed by Ottaviano and Peri (2012) to account for the linguistic...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/05/2017
Exchange rate fluctuations and border crossings: evidence from the Swiss-Italian border
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of nominal exchange rate fluctuations on cross-border mobility and on retailer firms' sales. Exchange rate shocks may affect the labour supply decisions of cross-border workers and the propensity for consumers to shop across the border. By using hourly data on traffic flows in Ticino, the southernmost canton of Switzerland...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/05/2017
Essays on variance risk
My PhD thesis consists of three papers which study the nature, structure, dynamics and price of variance risks. As tool I make use of multivariate affine jump-diffusion models with matrix-valued state spaces. The first chapter proposes a new three-factor model for index option pricing. A core feature of the model are unspanned skewness and term structure effects, i.e., it is...
Institution partenaire
English / 27/12/2016
ICT and gamified learning in tourism education: a case of South African secondary schools
Tourism is often introduced as a subject in formal education curricula because of the increasing and significant economic contribution of the tourism industry to the private and public sector. This is especially the case in emerging economies in Asia and Africa (Hsu, 2015; Mayaka & Akama, 2015; Cuffy et al., 2012). Tourism in South Africa – which is the geographical setting of...
Institution partenaire
English / 10/11/2016
Behavioral analyses of retailers’ ordering decisions
The main objective I pursue in this thesis is to better understand how different factors may independently and in combination influence retailers' ordering decisions under different supply chain structures (single agent and multi agent), different demand uncertainty (deterministic and stochastic), and different interaction among retailers (no interaction, competition and...
Institution partenaire
English / 18/10/2016
Profit theory: a new macroeconomic approach
Profit and its investment in productive activities lie at the heart of modern monetary economies. Indeed, it is thanks to profit investment that fixed capital is produced and used by companies to increase the number of consumption goods and, ultimately, to increase the wealth of households. Yet, despite economists’ full understanding of corporate gains from a microeconomic...
Institution partenaire
English / 05/10/2016
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