The Importance of Being Optimistic in Times of Crisis
A study on 1,642 British firms highlights that optimistic entrepreneurs implemented more innovation and more organizational change than the rest during the COVID spring lockdown
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Commuting Flows, Not the Transport Mode, Help COVID Spread
Two Bocconi studies indicate that there would have been 2,300 fewer deaths between March and April 2020 if commuter flows in Italian cities were 10% lower. At flow parity, public and private transport are equally dangerous
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We All Lose When Immigrants Can't Access Health Care. Especially in a Lockdown
During the spring lockdown, undocumented immigrants' access to primary care in Milan halved and their housing conditions deteriorated, making it difficult to comply with COVID public health measures, according to research by Carlo Devillanova in collaboration with the NAGA association
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No Compliance with COVID Measures Without Trust in Health Authorities
Risk communication from the WHO was well trusted and acted upon during the first wave, but more emphasis on non enforceable hygiene measures and messages tailored to the less compliant are needed now
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Real Men Dare Also in Times of COVID. And Put Themselves in Danger
Men's attitudes and behavior may have contributed to their higher vulnerability and mortality. A survey in 8 OECD countries shows that they are less likely than women to consider the coronavirus a serious problem, less likely to agree with public policies and more likely to disregard them
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A Tool to Evaluate Public Perception of Countries' Response to the Pandemic
Alessia Melegaro and Francesco Billari collaborated in the international project COVID SCORE to help identify weaknesses in governments' responses to Covid19. The first results show that Italians have positively evaluated the international cooperation of the government and the information provided on the spread of the virus
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We'd Better Listen to Cassandra Also in Times of COVID
Six EU countries banned short selling on their stock exchanges in the wake of the COVID outbreak in order to avoid a downward feedback loop. They had it wrong, according to Marco Ventoruzzo
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Warning: Epidemics Are Often Followed by Unrest
From the Black Death to the Spanish Flu, history teaches that social tension accumulated over an epidemic can lead to significant episodes of rebellion, according to a study by Massimo Morelli and Roberto Censolo
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The Young Perceive Higher COVID Risk than the Old. And Are More Cautious
A survey of over 1,500 Americans conducted by scholars from Bocconi, Harvard and Oxford shows that young people assess COVID mortality for their age group 10 times higher than it is; old people 10 times lower. And their behavior is consistent with such beliefs
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Finding the Perfect Number
Francesco Grossetti has released a computer package capable of finding out the number of topics that best describes the content of corpuses of texts too large to be managed
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Fear of COVID, the Effectiveness of Non Pharmaceutical Interventions
Colombe Ladreit analyzes the economic effects of lockdowns and distancing
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From Intelligence to AI and from Art to Artifice
The fifth edition of ScienzaNuova, a seminar of research and experimentation on the fundamental concepts of modern sciences, returns to Merano
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Circular Businesses Risk Less and Reap Higher Returns
Adherence to circular economy practices reduces by 12 times the default risk at one year from opening and leads to better risk adjusted returns, according to a white paper by Bocconi University, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo, coordinated by Claudio Zara
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How to Support Victims of Extortion and Usury in a Moment of Crisis
A study resulting from an agreement between the Commissioner for the coordination of anti racket and anti usury initiatives and Bocconi University evaluates the functioning of the Solidarity Fund, born from an idea of Giovanni Falcone
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Methods and Models for Deciding with Data
Emanuele Borgonovo, through two research projects, aims to make models understandable and useful to managers
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The Equilibrium Existence Duality
Theory & Experiments Seminar SeriesElizabeth Baldwin, Oxford University https://elizabeth-baldwin.me.uk/papers/equilibrium-existence-duality.pdf
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Development Labor Political Economy - Joint with Collegio Carlo AlbertoJesse Shapiro (Brown University)
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Development Labor Political EconomyMaria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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