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Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Del Chicca Andrea, Mancini Alessandro

A New Model of Co-Responsibility

In recent months, the company committees created to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to ensure business continuity have created a new model of co-responsibility between businesses and employees. This is a form of collaboration that labor unions could also adopt in the future, extending it to broader perimeters of bargaining.#A new level of participation of unions in the life of organizations ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2) Amatori Franco

Nationalizations and Privatizations from a Historical Perspective

In Italy, the mixture between public and private has been an unavoidable characteristic in the nation's path of economic modernization. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, state initiative gave concrete form to the unification of the country, providing indispensible infrastructure. The companies in the IRI group were then the protagonists of the "economic miracle," in which the attitude ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2) Caselli Stefano

Banks and Markets: Why They are Tools of Economic Policy

Markets and financial investments play a decisive role in favoring growth, that economic policy choices must permanently encourage. First of all, it is necessary to promote the use of the financial market and investor interventions (private equity, venture capital, PIR, ELTIF) in support of business equity.#Any public interventions in the economy must always have an explicit timeframe and a logic ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2) Artoni Roberto

The Bumpy Road of the Exit from the Mixed Economy

The divestment of the companies held by IRI did not require any additional intervention in terms of public finance, demonstrating their evident condition of good health. The privatizations were also driven by an essentially financial logic: the state sought high and immediate financial proceeds, but often without an in-depth evaluation of the quality of the buyers or the consequences of the divestments ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Dalli Daniele , Viglia Giampaolo, Pera Rebecca, Grazzini Laura

False Positives: The Anomalies of Online Reviews

With respect to traditional operators (hotels), in the sharing economy the generation of empathy towards the supplier of the service reduces the possibility for negative reviews by users, even in the event of an unsatisfying experience. The high social distance in the context of the sharing economy explains the generation of empathy. In that sense, even traditional operators should act to create warmer ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Cosentino Claudio, di Pietro Adelina

The Prospects for the Italian Water Pricing System

With approximately 40 euros per inhabitant per year in 2018, compared to a European average of 100 euros, Italy is at the bottom of the European rankings for investment in the water sector. The causes are to be found in the organizational deficits on the part of the operators, overly complex regulations, and the limited utilization of credit.#The current tariff method launched an intervention seeking ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Giua Claudio

When Publishers no Longer Believe in Publishing

You had to get in line, twenty years ago, to understand the phenomenon of Repubblica.it. In the fall of 2001, delegations of experts and journalists from Axel Springer, the publisher of the popular Bild and the elite Die Welt newspapers in Germany, plus a long list of regional publications and magazines, came down from Berlin to Rome, armed with notepads. The Parisians of Le Monde also went to Repubblica’s ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Carotti Fabrizio

From the Newspaper to the Newsbrand: The View of Managers

Audipress represents the official, objective, and impartial survey on the reading of daily and periodic press in Italy. It provides data on reading, together with socio-demographic information on the readers for the main Italian journalistic publications (54 newspapers and daily supplements - that represent almost the entirety of what is sold by newsstands in this segment - and 50 periodicals).[1] ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Berloto Sara, Mangiaterra Viviana, Pagliaroli Elisa, Torbica Aleksandra

Health Emergencies: The Case of the Papilloma Virus

Of the 311,000 deaths per year due to cervical cancer, 90 percent take place in medium and low-income countries, with a decidedly higher incidence in Africa. The multidimensional nature of services and the ability of management to conceive of integrated solutions and policies is the principal challenge present in Africa to limit the spread of cervical cancer. Investing in therapies and treatment for ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Masciandaro Donato

Euro and African Franc Better Together

The analysis of the macroeconomic costs and benefits of the experience of the African franc is much more complex than what the superficial debate in Italy in recent months suggested. The French government's decision to reduce its role will mean that the African countries will have to choose how to continue relations with the euro. The ECB could have an active role in the relations with the African ...