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"Measuring Switching Costs in the Italian Residential Electricity Market"

This paper, published in 'The Energy Journal', investigates the existence and magnitude of consumers switching costs – namely, time-based and cognitive-based costs on consumers changing providers – in the Italian residential electricity market. Such costs may lead to consumer inertia in making

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Department closure: 12 & 13 June 2023 - Giustinianea Feast & City's patron saint

On Monday 12 June and Tuesday 13 June 2023, the University of Padua will be closed for the Giustinianea Feast and the city's patron saint, Saint Anthony of Padua.Department activities will resume on Wednesday, 14 June 2023.

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"The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy"

Literature on environmental sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) focuses on how ‘lead firms’ can improve the environmental conditions of production among their various layers of suppliers. In this paper, Stefano Ponte (Copenaghen Business School) and our Valentina De Marchi, Marco Bettiol

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Accounting Summer Camp 2023 - VI edition

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WARM UP Meet Your Future May 25

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