Search Results - "Becchetti, L."

The drivers of happiness inequality: suggestions for promoting social cohesion by Becchetti, Leonardo, Massari, Riccardo, Naticchioni, Paolo

“…This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a…”
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Self-stabilizing repeated balls-into-bins by Becchetti, L., Clementi, A., Natale, E., Pasquale, F., Posta, G.

“…We study the following synchronous process that we call repeated balls-into-bins . The process is started by assigning n balls to n bins in an arbitrary…”
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The impact of the French Tobin tax by Becchetti, L., Ferrari, M., Trenta, U.

“…•We analyse the impact of the introduction of the French Tobin tax.•We control with diff-in-diff for simultaneous month-of-the-year and size effects.•The tax…”
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A lightweight privacy preserving SMS-based recommendation system for mobile users by Becchetti, L., Bergamini, L., Colesanti, U. M., Filipponi, L., Persiano, Ginseppe, Vitaletti, A.

“…In this paper, we propose a fully decentralized approach for recommending new contacts in the social network of mobile phone users. With respect to existing…”
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ICT Investment, Productivity and Efficiency: Evidence at Firm Level Using a Stochastic Frontier Approach by BECCHETTI, L., BEDOYA, DAVID ANDRES LONDONO, PAGANETTO, L.

“…We analyze the determinants of ICT investment and the impact of information technology on productivity and efficiency on a representative sample of small and…”
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Corporate social responsibility and shareholder's value by Becchetti, Leonardo, Ciciretti, Rocco, Hasan, Iftekhar, Kobeissi, Nada

“…Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become one of the core components of corporate strategy and a crucial instrument to minimize conflicts with…”
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The Determinants of Motion Picture Box Office Performance: Evidence from Movies Produced in Italy by BAGELLA, M., BECCHETTI, L.

“…The paper provides an empirical analysis of box office performance for movies produced in Italy between 1985 and 1996. Descriptive evidence documents a…”
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The Determinants of Growth for Small and Medium Sized Firms. The Role of the Availability of External Finance by Becchetti, Leonardo, Trovato, Giovanni

“…We present an empirical analysis of the determinants of growth for a sample of Italian small and medium sized firms. We show that, when investigating a sample…”
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Financial constraints on investments: A three-pillar approach by Bagella, M., Becchetti, L., Caggese, A.

“…Recent theoretical analyses demonstrate how informational asymmetries between financiers and investors may generate credit rationing and positive cost…”
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Violence, trust, and trustworthiness: evidence from a Nairobi slum by Becchetti, Leonardo, Conzo, Pierluigi, Romeo, Alessandro

“…We test with a field experiment in a Nairobi slum whether violence suffered during the 2007 political outbreaks affects trustworthiness when interethnicity…”
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The Effects of Fair Trade on Affiliated Producers: An Impact Analysis on Kenyan Farmers by Becchetti, Leonardo, Costantino, Marco

“…We analyse the impact of fair trade (FT) affiliation on monetary and non-monetary measures of well-being in a sample of Kenyan farmers. Our descriptive and…”
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Parallel scheduling problems in next generation wireless networks by Becchetti, L., Leonardi, S., Marchetti-Spaccamela, A., Vitaletti, A., Diggavi, S., Muthukrishnan, S., Nandagopal, T.

“…Next‐generation 3G/4G wireless data networks allow multiple codes (or channels) to be allocated to a single user, where each code can support multiple data…”
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SOCIAL/CIVIL ECONOMY — AND HOW IT IS GRADUALLY TRANSFORMING THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT by Becchetti, Leonardo

“…The crisis we are living affects at least five (economic, financial, environmental, currency-related and well-being-related) dimensions. In this paper we…”
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Bankruptcy risk and productive efficiency in manufacturing firms by Becchetti, Leonardo, Sierra, Jaime

“…The paper investigates the determinants of bankruptcy in three representative unbalanced samples of Italian firms for the periods 1989–91, 1992–94 and 1995–97…”
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Working in the for-profit versus not-for-profit sector: what difference does it make? An inquiry on preferences of voluntary and involuntary movers by Becchetti, L., Castriota, S., Depedri, S.

“…We investigate the drivers of the for-profit/not-for-profit wage differential by comparing judgments of job characteristics of workers who voluntarily or…”
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The sources of happiness: Evidence from the investment game by Becchetti, Leonardo, Degli Antoni, Giacomo

“…The paper draws on data collected in an investment game plus a questionnaire to investigate whether happiness is affected by the circumstances and/or outcomes…”
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Real effective exchange rate volatility and growth: A framework to measure advantages of flexibility vs. costs of volatility by Bagella, Michele, Becchetti, Leonardo, Hasan, Iftekhar

“…By devising a real effective exchange rate (REER) index where bilateral exchange rates are weighted for relative trade shares, we find that the REER volatility…”
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Role of industrial districts externalities in export and value-added performance : evidence from the population of Italian firms by BECCHETTI, L, DE PANIZZA, A, OROPALLO, F

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The Positive Effect of Industrial District on the Export Performance of Italian Firms by BECCHETTI, LEONARDO, ROSSI, STEFANIA P. S.

“…Economies of scale in the provision of export services and informal face-to-face exchanges of information about export markets may improve export performance…”
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Average case and smoothed competitive analysis of the multi-level feedback algorithm by Becchetti, L., Leonardi, S., Marchetti-Spaccamela, A., Schafer, G., Vredeveld, T.

“…In this paper, we introduce the notion of smoothed competitive analysis of online algorithms. Smoothed analysis has been proposed by Spielman and Teng (2001)…”
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