135 research outputs found
Creating a killer : the Colorado National Guard, U.S. Empire, and the Ludlow Massacre
No full textOtterbein University Professor of History Anthony DeStefanis delivers a talk entitled, "Creating a killer: the Colorado National Guard, U.S. Empire, and the Ludlow Massacre". Speaking from a slide show DeStefanis describes the massacre of striking miners and their families committed by the Colorado National Guard in 1914 at Ludlow. He explains the basis for the strike, the role the militia played in breaking it, and the ethnic tensions that played a role. DeStefanis is introduced by Professor John P. Beck, MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum
Cryptocurrency ecosystems and social media environments: An empirical analysis through Hawkes’ models and natural language processing
No full textCopyright © 2021 The Author(s). We analyse, using a mixture of statistical models and natural language process techniques, what happened in social media from June 2019 onwards to understand the relationships between Cryptocurrencies’ prices and social media, focusing on the rise of the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices. In particular, we identify and model the relationship between the cryptocurrencies market price changes, and sentiment and topic discussion occurrences on social media, using Hawkes’ Model. We find that some topics occurrences and rise of sentiment in social media precedes certain types of price movements. Specifically, discussions concerning governments, trading, and Ethereum cryptocurrency as an exchange currency appear to negatively affect Bitcoin and Ethereum prices. Those concerning investments, appear to explain price rises, whilst discussions related to new decentralized realities and technological applications explain price falls. Finally, we validate our model using a real case study: the already famous case of ”Wallstreetbet and GameStop”1 that took place in January 2021.Funding: No funding was received for this work
On wage formation: wage flexibility and wage coordination: A focus on the wage impact of productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States. MPRA Paper No. 31102, 29 June 2011
No full textThis paper discusses the endeavours of policy makers to come to some degree of wage coordination
among EU countries, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national
levels. In this context, we analyse the wage and productivity developments in Germany, the European
Union’s periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain along with the US for the period 1980-
2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the contributions of
prices, unemployment, replacement rates and taxes by means of an econometrically estimated non-linear
wage equation resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of
wages in depth. The findings show that in past times of low productivity, price inflation and reductions in
unemployment put significant upward pressure on wage growth, also in the low inflationary period of the
2000s. Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain are far from aligning wage growth with productivity growth.
German productivity is a major German wage determinant, but surely not the only one. To steer wages,
policy makers can effectively use the replacement rate
Giona oltre Colombano: vita e contesto di un biografo
No full textThis article analyzes the literary persona of Jonas of Susa (or Jonas of Bobbio), author of the Vita of Columbanus, and his first disciples. Already before his death, Jonas was renowned as an eminent hagiographer. He acquired his fame not only in view of the importance of the saint whose story he had told, but also because of the literary characteristics of his work: its complex structure, the monumental and stylistically refined prologue, the frequent presence of the writer in the narrative. These features, together with what we know about Jonas’ life (mostly told by himself), suggest that he was a man of considerable social prominence; a correct interpretation of the scope and meaning of his Vita Columbani, therefore, must also take into account these elements
Beveridge curve, job matching and labour market dynamics: a multi-level empirical analysis
No full text2007 - 2008The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the debate on the
Beveridge Curve: more specifically, after providing a
theoretical introduction to the Curve in Chapter I, we focus on
some empirical points, concerning globalisation and
technological progress, which the international empirical
literature has not dealt with closely (Chapter II), and on a level
analysis which no previous study has dealt with in the Italian
literature (Chapter III).
Chapter I centres on the matching approach founding the
studies on the Beveridge Curve since the late 1970's, it also
mentions the recent production frontier approach and gives a
look to the possible consequences of the Great Recession on
the matching process and the Curve.
The aim of Chapter II is to test the existence of a Beveridge
Curve analysing the economies of nineteen OECD countries
from 1980 to 2004, and to investigate whether and how
technological progress and globalisation affect the
unemployment-vacancies trade-off. Indeed, in the literature
concerning the Beveridge Curve, only a few contributions
(Pissarides, 1990; Aghion and Howitt, 1994) have examined
the role of technological progress as a significant shift factor
for labour market performance. However, there is no unanimity
about the sign of its impact. Furthermore, few economists
would deny that globalisation, that is the growing international
interdependence in communications, trade, finance, labour
markets (migration), social systems, is one of fundamental
socio-economic phenomena of this turn of century.
Consequently, globalisation is another factor which is expected
to impact on the Beveridge Curve, but no full-fledged
estimation has, to the best of our knowledge, ever been carried
out of this nexus. We can sum up the main results as follows:
a) we find largely favourable evidence for the existence of a
OECD Beveridge Curve; b) lagged values of technological
progress impact positively on unemployment and shift the
Beveridge Curve outwards, producing evidence in support of
the creative destruction effect; c) lagged values of the
globalisation index have a positive impact on unemployment,
also shifting the Beveridge Curve outwards; d) a critical
econometric issue, extremely neglected by the previous
literature, is represented by endogeneity, as shown by tests and
other kind of evidence.
Finally, Chapter III focuses on the Italian labour market. There
are not many studies that have analyzed the Beveridge Curve in
Italy, likely because of the lack of official data on vacancies.
Moreover, no previous study has focused specifically on a
regional level analysis of the Beveridge Curve. Chapter III
aims at filling this gap of the literature using quarterly data for
the 1992-2009 period. In particular, the ISAE labour scarcity
indicator, which is available for all the regions, is used to build
regional vacancy rates. Like in Destefanis and Fonseca (2007),
we also investigate the impact on matching efficiency of the
recent strong development in the number of so-called atypical
jobs (both part-time and temporary)… [edited by author].VII n.s
Nomadic/Settlement
No full textProposal for the new Gipsy Camp of Alba, ItalyHyperbody, Non-Standard and Interactive ArchitectureArchitectureArchitectur
Un'applicazione dell'economia condivisa al settore turistico: il caso dell'Albergo Diffuso
No full text2015 - 2016La tesi è incentrata sull’importanza crescente della Sharing Economy e della co-creazione di valore. L’importanza di questo nuovo modello di consumo, si evidenzia nella tesi anche in un settore economico di rilevanza strategica per il paese, ossia il comparto del turismo e dell’ospitalità. Attraverso una literature review è stato possibile testare e verificare l’esistenza di una relazione tra la crescita della Sharing Economy e l’evoluzione culturale del consumatore e del suo territorio di riferimento. [a cura dell'Autore]The thesis focuses on the increasing of Sharing Economy and Value Co-creation. The importance of this new consumption pattern is highlighted in the thesis also in an economic sector of strategic importance for the country, namely the tourism and hospitality sector. Through a literature review it was possible to test and check the existence of a relationship between the growth of Sharing Economy and the cultural evolution of the consumer and its region in question. [edited by Author]XV n.s
Three essays on state budget rules and procedures
No full text2012-2013In Common pool models fiscal outcomes are determined by the decision-making rule that is used to aggregate conflicting interests into a single budget. The rules according through which the budget is prepared, approved and carried out can affect spending bias. The idea is that the common pool problem may manifest itself during different phases of the budgetary process. This thesis analyzes a model in which the Ministry of Finance internalizes the Common pool externality of the budget. From an institutional point of view this assumption is realistic because it takes into account the budget institutional equilibrium. Formally, this is reflected in the assumption that the Ministry of finance maximizes his utility function à la Stackelberg. In Stackelberg equilibrium leader’s expenditures choice is grater than in Cournot-Nash result, while the deficit bias is lower due to agenda setting power over spending ministries. [edited by Author]X ciclo n.s
Le convenzioni bancarie di risanamento dell’impresa in crisi. Profili contrattuali e disciplina concorsuale
No full text2017 - 2018Questo lavoro affronta la tematica delle convenzioni bancarie finalizzate al risanamento dell'impresa in crisi. Il tema è affrontato attraverso due chiavi di lettura: quella della legge fallimentare e quella del diritto contrattuale, con la finalità di una interpretazione integrata tra le due prospettive. [a cura dell'Autore]The thesis deals with the issue of banking conventions in wortkout agreements aimed at reorganizing the company in crisis. The theme is dealt with throught two interpretations: the bankruptcy law and the contract law, with the aim of an integrated interpretation between the two perspectives. [edited by Author]XXXI cicl
Essays on Human Capital, Long Run Growth and Comparative Development
No full text2011 - 2012Questo lavoro avanza l’ipotesi secondo la quale differenze tra paesi
nella distribuzione del capitale umano, mediante l’effetto sull’adozione della
tecnologia, implicò differenze nel timing della transizione da stagnazione
Malthusiana a crescita moderna ed è pertanto causa delle persistenti differenze nei redditi pro-capite che si osservano oggi. Il grado di polarizzazione
della distribuzione del capitale umano si traduce in un trade-off tra innovazione ed adozione della tecnologia che, a sua volta, determina la transizione
da stagnazione a crescita. Nonostante il contributo della coda alta della distribuzione del capitale umano all’innovazione tecnologica, l’assenza di una
componente della forza lavoro sufficientemente istruita da avere la possibilità
di adottare le nuove tecnologie disponibili causò un ritardo nella transizione
da stagnazione a crescita. [a cura dell'Autore]This research argues that di erences in the distribution of human capital
across countries and their impact on the advancement and the adoption of
technology contributed to the di erential timing of the transition from the
Malthusian stagnation to modern growth and the persistent di erences in
income per capita across the globe. Polarization in the distribution of hu-
man capital within an economy implied a trade-o between innovation and
adoption of technologies that, in turn, in
uenced the transition from stag-
nation to growth. Despite the contribution of the upper tail of the human
capital distribution to technological innovation, the absence of wide group
of educated individuals among the working population delayed technology
adoption and the transition from stagnation to growth. [edited by Author]XI n.s
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