The economics of trust and culture
Financial Literacy
The choice of firms capital structure
Risk sharing and the labor market
Financing Innovation, Venture
Capital
Diffusion and Adoption of Technological
Innovation
Technology and Growth
Concentration /
deconcentration of the economic activity
Exchange Rate
Theory,
International
Diversification of Portfolios
Interests Rates and
Speculative Attacks Theory
The economics of trust
and culture: we study how cultural differences between
individuals belonging to different ethnic groups influence local
public expenditure using panel data of US cities.. We also
look at the effect of trust and marriages of different cultural
traits.
Financial Literacy:
using the PISA data we study what determines the difference
in financial literacy among italian regions.
The choice of firms
capital structure: we study the choice of the debt and equity
financing of firms
Risk sharing and the
labor market: we study how firms adopt policies of risk sharing
changing their capital structure and labor.
Financing Innovation, Venture Capital: we study how VC
choose to finance innovation.
Diffusion and Adoption of Technological Innovation:
we study the geographic diffusion of innovation
Concentration /
deconcentration of the economic activity: We study the process of
geographyc concentration or deconcentration of economic
activity
Exchange Rate Theory, : exchange rate theory and
exchange rate determination
International
Diversification of Portfolios: portfolio diversification as a mean
of macro shock risk sharing.