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RISk and uncertainty in developing and Implementing Climate change pOlicies (RISICO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

"Uncertainty is pervasive in all aspects of climate change. Although this is beyond dispute, the vast majority of research assessing climate ignores uncertainty, in large part because of the technical complexities involved. The present project aims at advancing substantially the way we conceptualize, model and frame the climate change policy making process, focusing on the central role of uncertai ...
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Subjective well-being and fertility (SWELL-FER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The project is about subjective well-being (SWB) and demographic behaviour, with a particular focus on fertility in advanced societies, across time and space. The project is motivated by the fact that European and other advanced industrialized countries have for decades experienced below-replacement fertility levels, which are now posing dramatic challenges to ageing population structures. Cross-s ...
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Reasoning About Strategic Interaction and Emotions (STRATEMOTIONS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

"I propose to develop a general framework to analyze the dynamics of social and economic interaction between intelligent agents, who may nonetheless be affected by their emotions and exhibit time inconsistent preferences. A crucial aspect of the analysis is modelling how agents form and change their beliefs about the environment and about each other, including beliefs about beliefs. The reason is ...
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Rethinking sources and consequences of business cycles (RESOCONBUCY)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"Up until 2006 most macro-economists held the view that combination of technology and monetary factors could explain the bulk of business cycles, and that overall business cycle fluctuations were not a major source of concern for policy (at least in developed economies and in the post-war). The 2007-2009 crisis and its aftermath has radically shaken this view. First, most industrialized countries ...
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New directions in Bayesian Nonparametrics (N-BNP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The popularity of Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) inference is rapidly growing within both the academic community and practitioners. Indeed the BNP viewpoint naturally allows for rich and flexible probabilistic modeling and, via conditional (or posterior) distributions, for accurate function estimation, most notably of probability distributions, regression functions and hazard rates. After de Finetti ...
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Policy Design and Evaluation Research in Developing Countries (PODER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"Good policy design requires understanding of how agents respond to incentives and how they interact through market and non-market institutions. New approaches to policy design have recently emerged. These rely on controlled experiments as well as analysis of natural policy experiments. They allow us not only to evaluate whether a policy has been successful but also to test the theoretical channel ...
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"Contracts, Institutions, and Markets in Historical Perspective" (ECONOMICHISTORY)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"A growing number of scholars are studying the interactions between cultural values, social and religious norms, institutions, and economic outcomes. The rise of markets, as well as the development of contracts that enable mutually beneficial transactions among agents, are one of the central themes in the literature on long-term economic growth.This project contributes to both strands of literatur ...
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Designing Institutions to Evaluate Ideas (EVALIDEA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

"Not all new ideas are equally valuable from a social perspective. As the readers of this document know all too well, “picking the winners” is challenging because innovations have highly uncertain outcomes.The aim of this research project is to develop a general theoretical framework to investigate the design of institutions and mechanisms for evaluating new ideas and innovations. The proposed fra ...
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Social Innovation and Civic Engagement (ITSSOIN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Research has made seminal contributions to describing the size and scope of the Third Sector, including volunteering as an essential component. However, most of the research has focused on economic benefits (revenues, employment etc.). We highly value these efforts, but posit that the core contribution and main impact of the sector on socio-economic development lies in the creation of social innov ...
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Financial Imperfections and Macroeconomic Implications (FINIMPMACRO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"We plan to study the implications of financial market imperfections for four main questions.First, how do financial imperfections affect the optimal conduct of monetary and exchange rate policy in open economies? A key insight is that we characterize financial frictions as endogenous and only occasionally binding. This can have important implications for the optimal conduct of stabilization polic ...
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"Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800" (EINITE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"The aim of EINITE is to clarify the dynamics of economic inequality in Europe from the late Middle Ages up until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Very little data about economic inequality during such an early period is available today. Apart from some studies focussed on single years and small areas (usually only one city or a village), the only European region which has been the obje ...
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Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environements (LIPSE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"The LIPSE project (Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments) identifies drivers and barriers to successful social innovation in the public sector. Through studying social innovation and co-creation practices and processes in 11 European countries and 7 policy sectors, LIPSE will create and disseminate essential knowledge about public innovation. The LIPSE consortium consists of lead ...
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The potential of investments in energy efficiency and distributed generation to contribute to local development in Italy. Which role for local communities? (LocalEnergy)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jul 2, 2016,

This is a proposal for an interdisciplinary investigation into the potential of investments in energy efficiency and renewable generation to contribute to local development in Italy, with a focus on Italian ‘convergence objective’ regions (i.e. Calabria, Puglia, Sicilia and Campania). The project will consider several types of emerging business models for the implementation of energy measures at l ...
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Methods for Health Technology Assessment of Medical Devices: a European Perspective (MEDTECHTA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is widely accepted as a multidisciplinary approach studying the clinical, economic, social and ethical implications of development, diffusion and use of health technologies and its role in policy making is increasingly established in EU countries. However, the currently adopted methodological framework for HTA doesn’t fully encounter the challenges rising from in ...
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Mapping Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Research Activities and their Impact (MAPPING_NCD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"MAPPING_NCD moves beyond the state of the art in the research area via three distinct means: by providing accurate mapping of research funding activities at Member State (MS) and European Union (EU) level; by providing bibliometric mapping and analysis of the volume of research outputs in the EU and MSs relevant to chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and, by using input from both the above ...
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Sustainable Plan for Integrated Development through the European Rail network – Projecting Logistics & mobility for Urban Spatial design evolution (SPIDER PLUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

"SPIDER PLUS objective is to provide a new 2050 mobility VISION through a Strategic Design & Plan, and a Road Map delivering Sustainable Solutions by then. In such Plan the electrified Rail has a central role both for passengers and freight. The productivity of the available resources supported by ICT and other technologies, is maximized by the combination of infrastructural nodes with spatial and ...
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Institutions and Globalization (Inst&Glob)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2015,

Economists have recently shown that developed economies rely on proper institutions for securing property rights, resolving disputes, etc. Scholars have studied the consequences of alternative legal and political institutions, but much remains to be done. One important and unexplored territory concerns the analysis of how national institutions interact in the international arena. This proposal see ...
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Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information 2.0 (LAPSI 2.0)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The objective of the LAPSI 2.0 thematic network is to identify the remaining legal barriers and obstacles to access and re-use of public sector information (PSI) on the European content market, and to provide measures and tools to overcome or reduce these barriers and to stimulate the progress of the European market towards open data. LAPSI 2.0 brings together academic experts with stakeholders f ...
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Local Worlds of Social Cohesion. The Local Dimension of Integrated Social and Employment Policies (LOCALISE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"Radical changes in the local governance of social cohesion in many Member States of the European Union are the focus of LOCALISE’s research on the organisational challenges of an integrated social and employment policy. The multiple needs of the most vulnerable groups in society require the integration of formerly separate policy fields. This creates positive dynamics for reducing social inequali ...
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Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future (COCOPS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style (NPM) reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of leading European public administration scholars. This evidence-based project focuses on the national level and the important policy domains of health and employment ser ...
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Bounded rationality and social concerns in decision processes: theory, experiments, and applications (BRSCDP-TEA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In the field of economics, individual decision making is the basic building block for studying complex environments such as markets, political systems, and social dynamics. Individual decision making is embodied in the neoclassical economically rational agent, whose only concern is the maximization of utility from his own material consumption. Two qualities of this agent are especially important f ...
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Growth And Sustainability Policies for Europe (GRASP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Growth And Sustainability Policies for Europe (GRASP) addresses European policy concerns associated with growth within a comprehensive yet coherent analytical framework. This framework is built on Aghion’s version of the Schumpeterian growth approach. It emphasizes quality-improving innovation in imperfectly competitive markets, but suggests optimal growth policy may depend as well on levels of t ...
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Micro-simulation for the prospective of sustainable cities in Europe (SustainCity)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Increasing concerns about sustainable development and the growth of urban areas have brought forth in recent years a renewed enthusiasm and need for the use of quantitative models in the field of transportation and spatial planning. This project proposes to improve urban simulation models and their interaction with transport models. Unified operational models that favour a microscopic approach, su ...
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A Think Tank Hosting an Interdisciplinary Network to provide Knowledge support to EU Energy Policy Making (THINK)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The three year coordinating action THINK will improve the knowledge support to policy making by the European Commission in the context of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan. THINK is organized around a multidisciplinary group of 24 experts covering five dimensions of energy policy: science and technology, market and network economics, regulation, law, and policy implementation. The Think Tank wi ...
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Thematic Network on Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information (LAPSI)

Start date: Mar 22, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Information generated and collected by public sector entities represents a veritable minefield; it might make a much greater contribution to EU economies and societies, if current legal barriers to access and re-user were removed. The LAPSI project will deal both with established PSI areas (geographic, land register data, etc.) as well as novel areas (cultural data from archives, libraries, scien ...
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