Research

A series of tradeoffs determine the choice to create a group of companies instead of managing operations within a single company, according to a study by Altomonte, Ottaviano and Rungi

From the Roman Empire to Catalonia, from the Soviet Union to Kurdistan: what we can understand by studying the evolution (violent or peaceful) of states

A study by Nicoletta Balbo finds that the happiness effect of a newborn is stronger for men than women and depends on a family's gender role attitudes and preferences towards work and family

Individuals who actively exploit the opportunities given by informational asymmetries perform better than those who prefer to favor informationsharing, according to new research by Soda, Tortoriello and Iorio

Private meetings with board members have proved to be an effective way to perform institutional investors' stewardship function both in the US and in the EU. We should overcome the risk of disclosing price sensitive information without raising compliance costs, Giovanni Strampelli argues in a new paper

An expensive PC or a cheaper one, for example, can be sold better by emphasizing or not mentioning certain common attributes, as shown in a study by Ioannis Evangelidis