Antonio ABATEMARCO | Projects

During the Nineties pension reforms in Western countries have mostly promoted the application of Notional Defined-Contribution (NDC) pension systems, where the pension benefit at retirement is obtained by using Transformation Coefficients accounting for the life expectancy of individuals at the age of retirement. In this project, we intend to contribute to current knowledge by quantifying the size

The research activity will be aimed at the investigation of the dynamics of the gender gap at retirement in the last decades in Italy. The analysis will be realized by using real data from the SHARE database.

Environmental valuation refers to a variety of techniques used to assign monetary values to environmental goods and services, especially when they are non-marketed. This type of valuation represents the basis for policymakers' evaluation of the distributive and allocative effects of environmental and economic policies. Recently, international focus has been drawn towards the concept of ecosystem s

In this research, given a simple theoretical framework, we provide experimental evidence on the contribution of bribery, intended as `corruption with theft¿ of public officials (Schleifer and Vishny 1993), as one of the possible determinants of the departure from maximal fine.