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Università della Svizzera italiana

Abandon ship? : party brands and politicians’ responses to a political scandal

Daniele, Gianmarco ; Galletta, Sergio ; Geys, Benny

In this article, we study politicians’ – rather than voters’ – responses to the main political scandal in Italian recent history (Tangentopoli), and overcome endogeneity concerns by analysing the local implications of this national corruption scandal. We find that local politicians withdraw support for incumbents in parties hit by Tangentopoli – inducing increased political...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Accounting for WTP/WTA discrepancy in discrete choice models : discussion of policy implications based on two freight transport stated choice experiments

Masiero, Lorenzo ; Maggi, Rico

A key input in cost-benefit analysis is represented by the marginal rate of substitution which expresses the willingness to pay, or its counterpart willingness to accept, for both market and non-market goods. The consistent discrepancy between these two measures observed in the literature suggests the need to estimate reference dependent models able to capturing loss aversion by...

Université de Fribourg

Activation of Phonological Codes during Reading : Evidence from Eye Movements and Proofreading

Sparrow, Laurent ; Miellet, Sebastien

In: Brain & Language

This experiment explored the role of phonology in the activation of word meanings when homophonic and non homophonic errors were embedded in meaningful texts. The resulting data supported the position that phonological codes are activated very early in an eye fixation and are compatible with the verification model of Van Orden (1987).

Université de Fribourg

An adaptation of kamishibai as an educational kit for reproductive health in India

Nakaya-Sommet, Maki ; Sommet, Moritz

In: The Art of Kamishibai: The Word of the Image and the Image of the Word, International Symposium, Ljubljana, May 10-13, 2018. Online Compendium

This paper presents an on-going product design project that aims to improve reproductive health education in India through Japanese paper theatre (kamishibai). The educational kit resulting from the project alters the conventional form of kamishibai to adapt it to local conditions and make it easier to use, allowing untrained persons to teach this complex subject matter. We discuss the pilot...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Adoption and use of new information technology

Alderighi, Marco ; Maggi, Rico

A general result of information theory is that asymmetric information generates agent rents and distortions in production. In this paper, we analyse the impact of asymmetric information on adoption and use of information technology (IT). Depending on the conctracting scheme, different results may occur. We explore the differences between the case of contractible investment and the case of...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Agent communication and institutional reality

Fornara, Nicoletta ; Viganò, Francesco ; Colombetti, Marco

In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of an artificial institution. Within such an approach, we first reformulate a previously proposed commitment-based semantics for ACLs. In particular we show that all commonly used types of communicative acts can be defined in terms...