Matteo Migheli
Biographic Data
| ID | 352300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matteo Migheli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matteo |
| FAMILY NAME | Migheli |
| SIGNATURE | MIGHELI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collegio Carlo Alberto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5051-4462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On the contribution of experiments to an ontology of economics
Ontological research is rare in economics. Objects studied by economists have hardly been screened under the lenses of ontology to shed light on their existence and their way of existing. Between the empirical approaches used by economists, experiments are one of the most recent and fast-developing. This article inquires about the contribution that experiments may provide to the construction of an ontology of economics. The discussion shows that …
Economic freedom and gender health gap in the E.U
This paper investigates the relationship between economic freedom and the gender health gap across European Union member states. Drawing on data from the European Institute for Gender Equality and the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom Index, the analysis explores how liberal economic policies influence health disparities between men and women. While liberal reforms are often promoted for enhancing overall economic efficiency, their impact on ge…
Framing Effects in Intertemporal Choices: 3 Two‐Step Experiments
Framings may affect individuals' choices. In particular, the perception of (implicit) risks and their costs may influence intertemporal choices. In a between‐subjects experimental design, participants are presented choices either in a standard (i.e., current vs. future payoffs), penalty (i.e., the same as before, presenting the differences between present and future amounts as losses), future‐improved (i.e., increasing by 35% the future payoff wi…
Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality
On the propensity to settle or litigate in laboratory disputes
On the Importance of Replicating Experiments in Economics
Replication of experiments in economics is becoming a major issue. For decades, scholars have tried to design novel experiments, explicitly avoiding replicating those already existing, as the scientific journals would not have published such replications. While experimental economists have begun recognising the importance of such a practice, some scepticism is still present in the scientific community. This paper presents the ontological perspect…
Lost in election. How different electoral systems translate the voting gender gap into gender representation bias
Covid-19 and heterogeneous restrictions: Possible consequences for EU cities
Covid-19 has obliged public authorities to enact several restrictions to citizens’ everyday life. Some of them were or will be transitory, while others may result in long-term changes in production organisation. The analysis offered in this paper links the restrictions to the level of economic freedom of the EU members. The aim is to understand whether these two aspects were related, and the potential legacy of the restrictions for economies and …
Household mobility in food purchasing during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from Torino, Italy
Green purchasing: The effect of parenthood and gender
The extant literature has inquired the effect of several socio-economic individual characteristics on green purchasing, showing that education, social status and other individual characteristics may enhance virtuous behaviours, but has paid few attention to parenthood and to the presence of children. Theoretical models of microeconomic choices show that if the parents’ utility includes that of children, then their presence should affect parents’ …
Transparency, asymmetric information and cooperation
We inquire experimentally whether asymmetric information in competitive settings and competition per se influence individual social behaviour. Participants perform a task and are remunerated according to two schemes, a non-competitive and a competitive one, then they play a standard public goods game. In the first scheme participants earn a flat remuneration, in the other they are ranked according to their performance and remunerated accordingly.…
The winner’s curse in auctions with losses
Size of Town, Level of Education and Life Satisfaction in Western Europe
I analyse the effect of living in settlements of different sizes on individual life satisfaction. The literature usually finds a negative correlation between life satisfaction and size of town. Here I cluster the population by level of education; the results show that people get dissatisfaction from living in large centres and that both education and income attenuate this effect. In particular, high education renders the cities and their features…
The Gospel and Economic Behaviour: Experimental Evidence From a Trust Game
This paper studies how individual religiosity affects people's behaviour. In particular here I study the behaviour of the second players in a standard trust game. While the extant literature has looked for religiosity to increase the stakes passed by the subjects, the results presented here show that more religious people tend to choose an even allocation of these resources, whilst the less religious participants are either opportunistic or gener…
The Quality of Life of Female Informal Caregivers: From Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea
Behind the Wall: What Remains of the “Communist Legacy” in Contemporary Europe
Do the Vietnamese Support the Economic Doi Moi
Each reform implies social and economic changes. After experiencing war and reunification, today Vietnam is implementing a comprehensive and deep process of renovation (doi moi), but a revolution needs the support of the population to be successful. This article investigates whether the Vietnamese are supportive of some of the main features of a market economy. In particular the preferences for competition, ownership of firms (either private or p…
Assessing Trust Through Social Capital? A Possible Experimental Answer
Trust is important in economics: several transactions are based on it; unfortunately it is difficult to measure. The recent economic literature on social capital shows a positive association between this concept and trust. As social capital is easier to measure than trust, this paper analyzes the possibility of assessing trust using a measure of social capital. A basic trust game is played in three Western European countries with undergraduate st…
Capabilities and Functionings: The Role of Social Capital for Accessing New Capabilities
This paper connects two relatively recent streams of research in social science: the capabilities approach and the literature on social capital. The aim is to show that these are strictly connected in a dynamic process linking functionings and capabilities through social capital. The ability to attain new capabilities is enhanced by the possession of social capital; hence investing in its accumulation allows individuals to improve their welfare. …
Plurality, Proportionality, Governability and Factions
Common sense suggests that majoritarian parliaments produce more efficient governments than proportional ones, because fewer decision‐makers are involved. Empirical evidence offers only limited support for this claim. A possible explanation is that the true decision‐makers are not actually the parties, but rather the factions within them. We consider some stylised real proportional cases, i.e. Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, and use simulatio…
The Quality of Life of Female Informal Caregivers: From Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea
Capabilities and Functionings: The Role of Social Capital for Accessing New Capabilities
This paper connects two relatively recent streams of research in social science: the capabilities approach and the literature on social capital. The aim is to show that these are strictly connected in a dynamic process linking functionings and capabilities through social capital. The ability to attain new capabilities is enhanced by the possession of social capital; hence investing in its accumulation allows individuals to improve their welfare. …
Behind the Wall: What Remains of the “Communist Legacy” in Contemporary Europe
Size of Town, Level of Education and Life Satisfaction in Western Europe
I analyse the effect of living in settlements of different sizes on individual life satisfaction. The literature usually finds a negative correlation between life satisfaction and size of town. Here I cluster the population by level of education; the results show that people get dissatisfaction from living in large centres and that both education and income attenuate this effect. In particular, high education renders the cities and their features…
Assessing Trust Through Social Capital? A Possible Experimental Answer
Trust is important in economics: several transactions are based on it; unfortunately it is difficult to measure. The recent economic literature on social capital shows a positive association between this concept and trust. As social capital is easier to measure than trust, this paper analyzes the possibility of assessing trust using a measure of social capital. A basic trust game is played in three Western European countries with undergraduate st…
Household mobility in food purchasing during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from Torino, Italy
The Gospel and Economic Behaviour: Experimental Evidence From a Trust Game
This paper studies how individual religiosity affects people's behaviour. In particular here I study the behaviour of the second players in a standard trust game. While the extant literature has looked for religiosity to increase the stakes passed by the subjects, the results presented here show that more religious people tend to choose an even allocation of these resources, whilst the less religious participants are either opportunistic or gener…
Capabilities and Functionings: The Role of Social Capital for Accessing New Capabilities
This paper connects two relatively recent streams of research in social science: the capabilities approach and the literature on social capital. The aim is to show that these are strictly connected in a dynamic process linking functionings and capabilities through social capital. The ability to attain new capabilities is enhanced by the possession of social capital; hence investing in its accumulation allows individuals to improve their welfare. …
Plurality, Proportionality, Governability and Factions
Common sense suggests that majoritarian parliaments produce more efficient governments than proportional ones, because fewer decision‐makers are involved. Empirical evidence offers only limited support for this claim. A possible explanation is that the true decision‐makers are not actually the parties, but rather the factions within them. We consider some stylised real proportional cases, i.e. Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, and use simulatio…
Do the Vietnamese Support the Economic Doi Moi
Each reform implies social and economic changes. After experiencing war and reunification, today Vietnam is implementing a comprehensive and deep process of renovation (doi moi), but a revolution needs the support of the population to be successful. This article investigates whether the Vietnamese are supportive of some of the main features of a market economy. In particular the preferences for competition, ownership of firms (either private or p…
Assessing Trust Through Social Capital? A Possible Experimental Answer
Trust is important in economics: several transactions are based on it; unfortunately it is difficult to measure. The recent economic literature on social capital shows a positive association between this concept and trust. As social capital is easier to measure than trust, this paper analyzes the possibility of assessing trust using a measure of social capital. A basic trust game is played in three Western European countries with undergraduate st…
The Quality of Life of Female Informal Caregivers: From Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea
Behind the Wall: What Remains of the “Communist Legacy” in Contemporary Europe
The Gospel and Economic Behaviour: Experimental Evidence From a Trust Game
This paper studies how individual religiosity affects people's behaviour. In particular here I study the behaviour of the second players in a standard trust game. While the extant literature has looked for religiosity to increase the stakes passed by the subjects, the results presented here show that more religious people tend to choose an even allocation of these resources, whilst the less religious participants are either opportunistic or gener…
The winner’s curse in auctions with losses
Size of Town, Level of Education and Life Satisfaction in Western Europe
I analyse the effect of living in settlements of different sizes on individual life satisfaction. The literature usually finds a negative correlation between life satisfaction and size of town. Here I cluster the population by level of education; the results show that people get dissatisfaction from living in large centres and that both education and income attenuate this effect. In particular, high education renders the cities and their features…
Transparency, asymmetric information and cooperation
We inquire experimentally whether asymmetric information in competitive settings and competition per se influence individual social behaviour. Participants perform a task and are remunerated according to two schemes, a non-competitive and a competitive one, then they play a standard public goods game. In the first scheme participants earn a flat remuneration, in the other they are ranked according to their performance and remunerated accordingly.…
Green purchasing: The effect of parenthood and gender
The extant literature has inquired the effect of several socio-economic individual characteristics on green purchasing, showing that education, social status and other individual characteristics may enhance virtuous behaviours, but has paid few attention to parenthood and to the presence of children. Theoretical models of microeconomic choices show that if the parents’ utility includes that of children, then their presence should affect parents’ …
On the Importance of Replicating Experiments in Economics
Replication of experiments in economics is becoming a major issue. For decades, scholars have tried to design novel experiments, explicitly avoiding replicating those already existing, as the scientific journals would not have published such replications. While experimental economists have begun recognising the importance of such a practice, some scepticism is still present in the scientific community. This paper presents the ontological perspect…
Lost in election. How different electoral systems translate the voting gender gap into gender representation bias
Covid-19 and heterogeneous restrictions: Possible consequences for EU cities
Covid-19 has obliged public authorities to enact several restrictions to citizens’ everyday life. Some of them were or will be transitory, while others may result in long-term changes in production organisation. The analysis offered in this paper links the restrictions to the level of economic freedom of the EU members. The aim is to understand whether these two aspects were related, and the potential legacy of the restrictions for economies and …
Household mobility in food purchasing during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from Torino, Italy
Free to die: Economic freedoms and influenza mortality
On the propensity to settle or litigate in laboratory disputes
On the contribution of experiments to an ontology of economics
Ontological research is rare in economics. Objects studied by economists have hardly been screened under the lenses of ontology to shed light on their existence and their way of existing. Between the empirical approaches used by economists, experiments are one of the most recent and fast-developing. This article inquires about the contribution that experiments may provide to the construction of an ontology of economics. The discussion shows that …
Economic freedom and gender health gap in the E.U
This paper investigates the relationship between economic freedom and the gender health gap across European Union member states. Drawing on data from the European Institute for Gender Equality and the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom Index, the analysis explores how liberal economic policies influence health disparities between men and women. While liberal reforms are often promoted for enhancing overall economic efficiency, their impact on ge…
Framing Effects in Intertemporal Choices: 3 Two‐Step Experiments
Framings may affect individuals' choices. In particular, the perception of (implicit) risks and their costs may influence intertemporal choices. In a between‐subjects experimental design, participants are presented choices either in a standard (i.e., current vs. future payoffs), penalty (i.e., the same as before, presenting the differences between present and future amounts as losses), future‐improved (i.e., increasing by 35% the future payoff wi…
Economics (18 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Econometrics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)