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"Virtual water and the inequality in water content of consumption"

Countries exporting agricultural goods are relatively abundant in the combined availability of water and arable land but, in absolute terms, scarce in capital and not richer in water in comparison to more developed ones. In this paper, published in Environment and Development Economics, Mohamad

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"Who supports liberal policies? A tale of two referendums in Italy"

In this paper, published in Economics Letters, Leonardo Madio (dSEA Unipd) and Francesco Principe (University of Bergamo) examine at the municipality level in Italy the factors that drive support for two referendums: one on the decriminalization of cannabis cultivation and the other on physician

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"Robots and the productivity of local manufacturing systems in Emilia-Romagna: the mediating role of occupational similarity and complexity"

In their recent publication in "European Planning Studies", Roberto Antonietti, (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua), Luca Cattani (Gran Sasso Science Institute) and Giulio Pedrini (Kore University of Enna) analyze the link between robot exposure, labour productivity, and

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"What’s in a shade? The market relevance of green bonds’ external reviews"

Authors:Marco Ghitti Department of Economics and Management, University of PaduaGianfranco Gianfrate EDHEC Business SchoolFlorencio Lopez-de-Silanes SKEMA Business School, Universite Cote d'Azur & NBERMarco Spinelli EDHEC Risk Institute Investigating the informative content of Second Party

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"Racial bias in newspaper ratings of professional football players"

In this paper, published in the European Economic Review, Francesco Principe from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova and Jan C. van Ours from the Erasmus School of Economics, study whether there is a racial bias in ratings of professional football players in

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