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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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"Uncertainty and Monetary policy during the Great Recession"

In this paper the authors, Giovanni Pellegrino, Efrem Castelnuovo and Giovanni Caggiano from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during and in the aftermath of the great recession. They

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Junior positions in Immigration and Health Economics

The Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova offers two junior positions:P1) a two-year postdoc to join a project on immigration and health, aiming to uncover the effects of immigration on natives' health and their mechanisms, and the differential utilization of healthcare

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Christmas season

17.12.2018

Christmas festivities

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What happens if Italy leaves the euro?

Padua, Room 32 - via Bassi 1

06.12.2018

What happens if Italy leaves the euro?

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