Università della Svizzera italiana

Labour market outcomes : Careers, transitions and durations

Malfitano, Paolo ; Maggi, Rico (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO004.

This thesis contributes to labour economics by considering a wide range of factors influencing career paths, transitions to self- employment and duration in entrepreneurship. In the past literature, several studies have analysed labour market outcomes, transitions and durations. Nevertheless, there is the need of knowing more about the influence of individual and background characteristics on...

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Essays in empirical finance

Parise, Gianpaolo ; Franzoni, Francesco (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015ECO006.

This thesis contains three essays on the role of incentives in financial decisions. The first essay documents how airlines financial choices are affected by the threat of future competition. The second essay explores the role of cross-trading in mutual fund families. The third essay shows the effect of stock undepricing on innovation spending.

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When innovation doesn't rhyme with agglomeration : the case of peripheral Swiss regions

Bossi, Fabio ; Maggi, Rico (Dir.) ; Meneguzzo, Marco (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2006 ; 2006ECO002.

This work deals with the economic dimension of two multi-disciplinary phenomena: innovation and the absence of agglomeration. Their common scientific field is certainly expressed by the so-called regional economy, which joins the economic science with other non economic disciplines such as geography, sociology and institutionalism. While the literature about agglomeration's positive effects on...