Food aid: for food security or for making politics? The evidence on U.S. food aid during the Cold War18 novembre 2015Food aid has traditionally served as an important element of policies aimed at promoting...
Don't Stop Me Now: The Impact of Credit Market Segmentation on Firms' Financing Constraints16 novembre 2015This paper investigates how the withdrawal of banks from their cross-border business has impacted...
When Lives Are Put on Hold:Lengthy Asylum Processes Increase Unemployment Among Refugees12 novembre 2015European governments are struggling with the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War, but...
Twitlang(er): Interactions Modeling Language (and Interpreter) for Twitter11 novembre 2015Online social networks are widespread means to enact interactive collaboration among people by, e.g...
Donatello in the Berlin Museums2 novembre 2015This seminar will describe one of the most banal occupations of a museum employee: cataloguing a...
Finance Islamique29 ottobre 2015Birama Boubacar SIDIBE is an expert in socio economic development. He enjoyed a 35 years long rich...
A New Method for the Correction of Test Scores Manipulation29 ottobre 2015I propose a method to correct for test scores manipulation and apply it to a natural experiment in...
Etruscans and Etruscan Studies between Italy and Europe29 ottobre 2015Since the late Humanistic age and by a very crescendo in the 18th and 20th centuries, the Etruscans...
Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom28 ottobre 2015This paper examines the long-run consequences of Russian serfdom. We use novel data measuring the...
Crack growth as a standard dissipative system26 ottobre 2015The crack propagation problem for LEFM has been studied by several authors exploiting its analogy...