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Personality traits and unemployment: Evidence from longitudinal data
2012
This study contributes to the literature on how personality is related to labour market success by providing evidence on the relationship between personality traits and unemployment. After accounting for reverse causality and measurement error, our results suggest that higher openness was associated with increased cumulative unemployment at the prime working age. It seems that this connection occurs because individuals with higher openness enter into unemployment spells more frequently – not because their unemployment spells would be particularly long. peerReviewed
A dynamic analysis of SP 500, FTSE 100 and EURO STOXX 50 indices under different exchange rates.
2018
In this study, we assess the dynamic evolution of short-term correlation, long-term cointe-gration and Error Correction Model (hereafter referred to as ECM)-based long-term Granger causality between each pair of US, UK, and Eurozone stock markets from 1980 to 2015 using the rolling-window technique. A comparative analysis of pairwise dynamic integration and causality of stock markets, measured in common and domestic currency terms, is conducted to evaluate comprehensively how exchange rate fluctuations affect the time-varying integration among the S&P 500, FTSE 100 and EURO STOXX 50 indices. The results obtained show that the dynamic correlation, cointegration and ECM-based long-run Gra…
Corruption-Related Disclosure in the Banking Industry: Evidence From GIPSI Countries
2022
This paper empirically investigates corruption-related disclosure in the banking industry, aiming to identify the most relevant theories which explain why financial institutions disclose corruption-related information to the public in their annual financial reports.Using a total sample of 88 banks from the GIPSI countries during the period 2011-2019, our results reveal that, on average, banks involved in corruption issues disclose less on corruption-related information than banks not involved in any corruption scandal. Moreover, banks not involved in corruption cases disclose even more information after other banks’ corruption events become public. These basic relationships, however, are sh…
Italian 'strappare': Unwilling vs struggling agents
2014
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Hume's Conception of Causality
2013
This article investigates the relationship between Hume’s causal philosophy and Newton’s philosophy of nature. I claim that Newton’s experimentalist methodology in gravity research is an important background for understanding Hume’s conception of causality: Hume sees the relation of cause and effect as not being founded on a priori reasoning, similar to the way that Newton criticized non-empirical hypotheses about the properties of gravity. However, according to Hume’s criteria of causal inference, the law of universal gravitation is not a complete causal law, since it does not include a reference either to contiguity or to temporal priority. It is still argued that because of the empirical…
Oltre il dilemma monismo/dualismo: l’ontologia non riduzionista della coscienza nel naturalismo biologico di John Searle
2006
La relazione mira a testare la fecondità del modello naturalista ed antiriduzionista dell’ontologia della coscienza elaborato da John Searle alla luce della sua capacità di superare l’apparentemente inevitabile dilemma monismo/dualismo. La posizione searleana rivela la propria attendibilità nella sua capacità di superare le aporie concettuali alle quali sembrerebbero esporsi alcune tra le più avanzate proposte teoriche contemporanee sull’ontologia della coscienza, con riferimento in particolare alle proposte elaborate da Dennett e Chalmers in chiave rispettivamente eliminativista e dualista. Si analizza inoltre la proposta searleana in ordine alla sua capacità di proporre una soluzione conv…
La mente in azione. Prefazione a J.R. Searle, Coscienza, Linguaggio, società, a cura di Ugo Perone.
2009
Il saggio mette in evidenza la fecondità teorica del naturalismo biologico di Searle nel far fronte al problema della causalità mentale, soffermandosi in particolare sulla centralità che in tale quadro teorico assumono i concetti di causalità bottom up no time gap e causalità sistemica, sulla base dei quali la prospettiva searleana può confrontarsi proficuamente con alcune tra le più recenti acquisizioni delle neuroscienze. La naturalizzazione non riduttiva del mentale prospettata da Searle consente al filosofo americano di affrontare in modo convincente le tematiche relative alla struttura della razionalità umana e della realtà istituzionale.
Recensione a John R. Searle, La mente, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2005
2005
La recensione mette in rilievo la fecondità teorica della filosofia della mente di Searle, per la prima volta presentata in questo volume come teoria unitaria del mentale capace di far fronte efficacemente, in una prospettiva naturalista ed antiriduzionista capace di superare il tradizionale dilemma tra monismo e dualismo, ai principali problemi sul tappeto del dibattito contemporaneo, dal problema della coscienza a quelli dell'intenzionalità, della causalità mentale e del libero arbitrio.
Effects of Grade Retention Policies: A Literature Review of Empirical Studies Applying Causal Inference
2021
The identification of the causal effects of grade retention policies is of enormous relevance for researchers and policymakers alike. Taking advantage of the availability of more detailed longitudinal datasets, researchers have been able to apply different identification strategies that address the classical problems of selection bias and unobserved heterogeneity that have plagued previous studies on the effect of retention. We present a systematic literature review of empirical studies aiming to unveil the causal effects of retention. This study underlines the need to consider and evaluate different kinds of grade retention polices as their effects vary depending on several dimensions (suc…
Self-efficacy and approaches to learning mathematics among engineering students : empirical evidence for potential causal relations
2020
Theories of self-efficacy and approaches to learning are well-established in the psychology of learning. However, studies on relationships between the primary constructs on which these theories are...