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"Do institutional donors value social media activity and engagement? Empirical evidence on Italian non-profit grantees"

In this paper, published in The British Accounting Review, Anna Alexander (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua), Silvia Pilonato (University of Bergamo) and Giulia Redigolo (ESADE Business School), examine whether social media activity and engagement of non-profit

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"Who Benefits from Privileged Peers? Evidence from Siblings in Schools"

In this study, published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Marco Bertoni and Giorgio Brunello from the Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno" and Lorenzo Cappellari from the Catholic University of Milan compare siblings attending the same school at different points of time and

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"Do institutional donors value social media activity and engagement? Empirical evidence on Italian non-profit grantees"

In this paper, published in The British Accounting Review, Anna Alexander (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua), Silvia Pilonato (University of Bergamo) and Giulia Redigolo (ESADE Business School), examine whether social media activity and engagement of non-profit

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Prof. Fulvio Fontini: Economics of Electricity

Economics of Electricity. Markets, Competition and RulesAnna CretìUniversité de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine)Fulvio FontiniDepartment of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno", University of Padova, ItalyThis comprehensive and up-to-date book explains the economic rationale behind the production,

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"Anti-mafia police actions, criminal firms, and peer firm tax avoidance"

Mafia firms introduce distortions in the markets in which they operate, increasing the cost of doing business for peer firms. Using a sample of Italian anti-Mafia police actions that resulted in the removal of Mafia firms, the authors find that peers reduce their tax avoidance following these anti

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