Both firms and managers usually direct their executive searches within the same industry and geographical area, according to a study by Julien Sauvagnat and Fabiano Schivardi . Firms in areas where managerial skills are scarce experience negative effects on performance

Study reveals that trust in democratic institutions is still lower than average among the Italians who voted for the first time during the Clean Hands investigation in the Nineties, and support for populist parties is stronger

The AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality presents today the results of a year of work on the subject of gender inequalities. The case of a French law on the gender pay gap

And the star of Erio Castagnoli keeps shining. A recent paper based on the ideas of the late lamented Bocconi professor investigates starshaped risk measures and illustrates their application to finance and decision theory

The outcomes of the EPO WG project, funded by CIVICA Research, do not end with the study of political polarization in Europe; a new network of computational social scientists is also emerging

Public perception of the motives behind Western funded aid programs in Egypt reduces their rate of approval, Renu Singh and Scott Williamson observe