Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "D03"

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Title: Cooperation hidden frontiers : the behavioral foundations of the Italian north-south divide Author(s): BIGONI, Maria; BORTOLOTTI, Stefania; CASARI, Marco; GAMBETTA, Diego; PANCOTTO, Francesca Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that ...
Title: Risk Attitudes and Measures of Value for Risky Lotteries Author(s): LEWANDOWSKI, Michal Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The topic of this thesis is decision-making under risk. I focus my analysis on expected utility theory by von Neumann and Morgenstern. I am especially interested in modeling risk attitudes represented by Bernoulli utility ...
Title: Acquisition of Information and Share Prices: An Empirical Investigation of Cognitive Dissonance Author(s): ARGENTESI, Elena; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; MOTTA, Massimo Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper deals with the determinants of agents' acquisition of information. Our econometric evidence shows that the general index of Italian share-prices and the series of Italy's financial newspaper sales are cointegrated, ...

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