Research

Behind Western Intervention in the Fall of Regimes

What are the effects of an external threat to a dictator's survival? This is the question facing Livio Di Lonardo in a study with two coauthors

Why the Multinationals that Influence the World Are Born

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

The Theory of Secession

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

When a Child Is Born, Fathers' Life Satisfaction Improves More than Mothers'

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

How to Extract Value from Your Position in a Corporate Network

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

Don't Let the Law Hamper the Dialogue between Board and Shareholders

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