The Alpine Population Conference, which gathers population scholars in La Thuile, crosses the line of the seventh edition

A study by Birhanu, Gambardella and Valentini reveals the mechanism behind the relationship between bribery and investment in fixed assets: short term oriented firms prefer to bribe rather than invest, while the opposite is true for firms with a longterm orientation

Wage flexibility is often considered a substitute for exchange rate flexibility in countries that joined a currency union, but a paper by Monacelli and Gali shows that its effects could be negative just when a country surrenders monetary policy. The solution: an expansive fiscal policy

Corporations with dense and homogenous internal networks are unlikely to make good use of external knowledge. When networks are more open and workers fill the gaps of their networks by talking to people with different skills, patents production increases

Ioannis Evangelidis and coauthors, through five lab experiments, find that perceived goal conflict in everyday life causes anxiety and stress, which leads to feel pressed for time. Making us impatient and willing to pay to save time

Vincenzo Perrone, who has succeeded in explaining the job market to high school students, says that academics should single out relevant issues and then adapt their language to a larger audience