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

Paola Sapienza of Kellogg School of Management will be the keynote speaker at the prize giving ceremony for the papers that have won the UWIN Unicredit and Universities Best Paper in Gender Economics

Beds cover less than 10% of needs and home visits amount on average to 17 hours per patient per year. Staff expenditure is suffering, with consequent aging of healthcare professionals. A warning about the NorthSouth gap in population health

Whether the government is rightwing or leftwing, the overall amount of taxation does not change, just its composition, as told in a paper by Paola Profeta