Becchetti Leonardo

22 Settembre 2015

143 – The Impact of Redistribution Mechanisms in the Vote with the Wallet Game: Experimental Results

Abstract We use the Vote-with-the-Wallet game (VWG) to model socially or environmentally responsible consumption, an increasingly relevant but still under-researched phenomenon. Based on a theoretical model […]
9 Febbraio 2015

138 – Education, health and subjective wellbeing in Europe

Abstract The productive and allocative theories predict that education has positive impact on health: the more educated adopt healthier life styles and use more efficiently health […]
7 Luglio 2014

Social/Civil Economy – And how it is Gradually Transforming the Economic Environment

Abstract The crisis we are living is multifaceted as it affects at least five (economic, financial, environmental, currency-related and wellbeing-related) dimensions. As such it requires solutions […]
4 Maggio 2014

La buona organizzazione dell’impresa civile

A cura di Leonardo Becchetti, Marina Galati, Giovanni Acquati, Tiziana Bonora, Claudio Ferrari, Pasquale Iorio, Ercole Ongaro. Nelle imprese tradizionali le relazioni sono strumentali all’obiettivo di […]
9 Marzo 2014

135 – Some insights on procrastination: a curse or a productive art?

Abstract The choice between performing a task today or procrastinating it until tomorrow or later is the building block of any economic action. In our paper […]
15 Gennaio 2014

133 – A dynamic model of Gambling addiction with social costs: theory and policy solutions

Abstract We investigate the effects of gambling addiction in a dynamic model in which wellbeing crucially depends on the accumulation of relational goods which is weakened […]
8 Gennaio 2014

132 – Information & belief elicitation effects on charitable giving: An artefactual field experiment

Abstract We examine by means of an artefactual field experiment on a representative sample of Italian adults, the impact of information and belief elicitation on charitable-giving […]
15 Novembre 2013

129 – Corporate social responsibility and profit volatility: theory and empirical evidence

Abstract Corporate social responsibility implies extra care for the wellbeing of stakeholders different from shareholders. In our theoretical model we show that, when this principle implies […]
8 Novembre 2013

128 – The heterogeneity of wellbeing “expenditure” preferences

Abstract With an online survey on major Italian newspapers we ask respondents to simulate the typical policymaker decision, that is, the dilemma of allocating scarce financial […]
15 Ottobre 2013

126 – The Legal Origins of Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract The legal origin literature documents that civil and common law traditions have different impact on rules and economic outcomes. We contribute to this literature by […]