Vincenzo Alfano
Biographic Data
| ID | 359634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincenzo Alfano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfano |
| SIGNATURE | ALFANO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Parthenope University of Naples |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4981-748X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From prose to pose
This article investigates the role of lyric readability in determining success at the Sanremo Music Festival, Italy’s most prominent song competition. While previous research on popular music competitions has largely focused on musical composition, performance style, and audience dynamics, the textual dimension of songs has received limited empirical attention. Using the Gulpease Index, a readability metric tailored to Italian, we measure the lin…
Joining the club
This article investigates how European Union (EU) accession affects the quality of national football teams. Using Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia as late-accession cases, we exploit the staggered timing of their entry to estimate the causal impact of joining the European Union through a difference-in-differences framework applied to monthly ELO ratings (1997–2022). Results show that EU accession is associated with a sudden and persistent decline i…
A world without work? Status, technological change and the future of employment
This article links the human concern for relative social standing with technological developments, and the future of work. We argue that to the extent that the desire for social status retains its importance in human behaviour, technological advancements affecting the production of goods and services will not necessarily lead to a diminishment of the demand for human labour. This essay makes two principal contributions. First, it links two differ…
Building Bridges or Forging Bonds? Exploring the Role of Social Capital in the Reception of Ukrainian Refugees in Italy
In the immediate aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine, over 6 million Ukrainians fled their country to various European countries, including Italy. Various entities in the country, ranging from third‐sector organizations to private citizens, expressed their interest in hosting these refugees, with significant subnational heterogeneity. What influenced this varying willingness to be hosts? We aim to provide some preliminary answers to this questio…
In the shadow of a pandemic
This article investigates whether the shadow economy influenced the diffusion of COVID-19 during the first wave in Europe. Using a hybrid econometric model and data from 26 European countries, we test the hypothesis that larger informal sectors acted as amplifiers of contagion by weakening compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions and limiting state enforcement capacity. The results confirm a strong and positive association between shadow …
Aging and Interpersonal Strain
As the global workforce ages and multiple generations collaborate in workplaces, addressing the unique needs of diverse age groups becomes critical. Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory, this study examines how regulatory emotional self-efficacy in managing negative emotions serves as a crucial personal resource in protecting against interpersonal strain. It also explores whether this relationship varies between middle-aged and senior employees. A…
In for a penny
This study investigates whether prior exposure to natural disasters influenced individual compliance with non‐pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), specifically lockdown measures, during the Corona Virus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Focusing on the Marche region of Italy, which experienced a severe earthquake in 2016, we exploit the randomness of both the earthquake and the pandemic to construct a natural experiment. Employing a qu…
To Obey or not to Obey? The Role of Trust in Non-pharmaceutical Interventions
Insights into crisis management and trust in public health consequences can be obtained by studying non-pharmaceutical interventions, which have been an important part of the anti-COVID-19 strategy. These restrictions are very difficult to enforce (due to the scale of the policies), making them an interesting setting in which to test how publics with different levels of trust comply with government prescriptions. Using European Social Survey data…
From expression to infection
In 2020, COVID-19 unfolded in a hyperconnected society. Its impact, before vaccines, was linked to the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). This study examines the relationship between freedom of expression, academic freedom, NPIs, and the COVID-19 trend, in a sample of 157 countries. We find that countries with higher levels of freedom of expression and academic freedom had fewer daily COVID-19 cases. These findings are in l…
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance
From Colonial Empires to Umpires
This study examines the impact that historical colonial legacies have on supraordinate behavior towards subordinates with whom a colonial past is shared. Analyzing data from the FIFA World Cup, we investigate the referee bias exhibited towards teams from formerly colonized countries and teams from countries that were formerly colonizers. Our findings reveal that referees from countries with colonial histories tend to take a stricter approach with…
In Covid We Trust
By changing many aspects of everyday life, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distance policies implemented to face it have affected the behaviour of people all over the world. Has the pandemic also affected people’s approach towards the divine? Previous evidence suggests that prayer searches on the Internet rose during the pandemic and that people tend to rely mainly on intrinsic rather than extrinsic religiousness to cope with adversity. In t…
Assessing the effectiveness of mandatory outdoor mask policy
In Hoc Signo Vinces—an Exploratory Study on the Impact of Religion on Violence in Sport
Does religion continue to spur violence even in contemporary times? This work aims to shed some light on the relationship between belonging to a given religion and violent behavior. Whereas religions often preach love and caring for others (meaning that among believers, a decrease in the level of violence may be registered), at the same time, it could be argued that a religious sense of belonging shapes self-identity and that in challenging situa…
Unveiling the Real Madrid effect
Contributing to the literature on so-called irrelevant events, this article aims to investigate the existence of a relation between football results and voters’ behaviour. There are indeed reasons to believe that football-related acrimony could influence electoral behaviour. More precisely, does the rank of a rival team and the distance between it and local teams influence the behaviour of the electorate? Spain seems to be the perfect case for st…
The institutional shaping of third sector organizations
By relying on province‐level data from Italy, this paper empirically studies the factors that correlate with the development of third sector organizations (TSOs) in the Italian territory. Moving beyond traditional explanations of TSOs development based on population heterogeneity theories, our analysis points to the role of public institutions as key driving factors of Italian TSOs development. It specifically suggests that public authorities may…
Modeling Central Asia’s Choices in Containing Covid-19
Different countries have adopted different policies in their fight against the COVID-19 outbreak. In this work we aim to model these approaches with respect to the first wave of COVID-19 (from January to October 2020) in the five Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). By means of a multivariate approach based on principal component analysis and cluster analysis, we derived three clusters. Each …
I want to break free
The revolution in the organization of work, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has had, and will have, some long-lasting consequences on how jobs will be performed, affecting adult life well-being. What we know so far about the determinant of satisfaction for work–life balance may not be valid anymore considering this sudden revolution in work organization. This \npaper presents an empirical analysis based on a cross-sectional survey of 803 worker…
The effect of self-esteem on the spread of a pandemic. A cross-country analysis of the role played by self-esteem in the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic
Carrot and stick
Assessing university-business collaborations for moderate innovators
Covid-19 in Central Asia
To fight coronavirus disease 2019, non-pharmaceutical interventions were adopted all over the world. Non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) effectiveness also depends on governments’ capacity to implement sound policies. Stay-at-home orders are binding measures that can raise serious concerns among the population. The perceived quality and effective need for these measures are therefore crucial for the willingness of the citizens to accept NPIs. T…
Does social capital enforce social distancing? The role of bridging and bonding social capital in the evolution of the pandemic
Exploring motivations behind the introduction of tourist accommodation taxes
A fame, peste et bello libera nos Domine
This article aims to provide some descriptive statistics about the deaths in Chioggia, between 1629 and 1631. Many details regarding the nature and socio-demographic characteristics of the deaths are provided, as well as the life expectancy for a three-year period. Results suggest that casualties were most severe in 1629 and 1630, rather than in 1631, that the death rate among women was worse than that among men, even if the former had a longer l…
I want to break free
The revolution in the organization of work, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has had, and will have, some long-lasting consequences on how jobs will be performed, affecting adult life well-being. What we know so far about the determinant of satisfaction for work–life balance may not be valid anymore considering this sudden revolution in work organization. This \npaper presents an empirical analysis based on a cross-sectional survey of 803 worker…
Death takes no bribes
Stay at Home! Governance Quality and Effectiveness of Lockdown
In order to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, during the first wave of the pandemic numerous countries decided to adopt lockdown policies. It had been a considerable time since such measures were last introduced, and the first time that they were implemented on such a global scale in a contemporary, information intensive society. The effectiveness of such measures may depend on how citizens perceive the capacity of government to set up…
Does social capital enforce social distancing? The role of bridging and bonding social capital in the evolution of the pandemic
A fame, peste et bello libera nos Domine
This article aims to provide some descriptive statistics about the deaths in Chioggia, between 1629 and 1631. Many details regarding the nature and socio-demographic characteristics of the deaths are provided, as well as the life expectancy for a three-year period. Results suggest that casualties were most severe in 1629 and 1630, rather than in 1631, that the death rate among women was worse than that among men, even if the former had a longer l…
The institutional shaping of third sector organizations
By relying on province‐level data from Italy, this paper empirically studies the factors that correlate with the development of third sector organizations (TSOs) in the Italian territory. Moving beyond traditional explanations of TSOs development based on population heterogeneity theories, our analysis points to the role of public institutions as key driving factors of Italian TSOs development. It specifically suggests that public authorities may…
From Colonial Empires to Umpires
This study examines the impact that historical colonial legacies have on supraordinate behavior towards subordinates with whom a colonial past is shared. Analyzing data from the FIFA World Cup, we investigate the referee bias exhibited towards teams from formerly colonized countries and teams from countries that were formerly colonizers. Our findings reveal that referees from countries with colonial histories tend to take a stricter approach with…
Exploring motivations behind the introduction of tourist accommodation taxes
No Country for Old (Poor) Men
Public pensions are a ‘social technology’ at the heart of most welfare states. The basic goal pursued by a public pension system is to make sure that individuals do not outlive their savings. An increasing number of states have recently moved to a system that matches individuals’ contributions over their working lives to a specific stream of revenue during their retirement years (i.e. defining contributions rather than benefits). As a result, int…
The Efficacy of Lockdown Against Covid-19
A broad-spectrum review on multimodal neuroimaging in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder
School openings and the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy. A provincial-level analysis using the synthetic control method
Gender Patterns in Mobbing Victims
With the aim of investigating the impact of gender-related personality characteristics on bullying perceptions and outcomes, a correlational study was designed with 114 individuals who had used a public health service aimed at harassed workers identifying themselves as victims of mobbing in central Italy. The study was conducted using the following questionnaires: the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ), a measure of workplace bullying; the Minneso…
No Country for Old (Poor) Men
Public pensions are a ‘social technology’ at the heart of most welfare states. The basic goal pursued by a public pension system is to make sure that individuals do not outlive their savings. An increasing number of states have recently moved to a system that matches individuals’ contributions over their working lives to a specific stream of revenue during their retirement years (i.e. defining contributions rather than benefits). As a result, int…
From the Triangle to the Rhombus
In this work, we aim to systematize the so-called diamond theory into a well-designed and explicated theory, that we will name “of rhombus”. After introducing the problem of the number of ancestors, and offering a solution to the paradox the usual mathematical solution creates, I offer an equation that finds the number of ancestors lost for coalescence events. We discuss the main reasons for coalescence and its implications. We also apply this eq…
Carrot and stick
Assessing university-business collaborations for moderate innovators
Covid-19 in Central Asia
To fight coronavirus disease 2019, non-pharmaceutical interventions were adopted all over the world. Non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) effectiveness also depends on governments’ capacity to implement sound policies. Stay-at-home orders are binding measures that can raise serious concerns among the population. The perceived quality and effective need for these measures are therefore crucial for the willingness of the citizens to accept NPIs. T…
Does social capital enforce social distancing? The role of bridging and bonding social capital in the evolution of the pandemic
Exploring motivations behind the introduction of tourist accommodation taxes
A fame, peste et bello libera nos Domine
This article aims to provide some descriptive statistics about the deaths in Chioggia, between 1629 and 1631. Many details regarding the nature and socio-demographic characteristics of the deaths are provided, as well as the life expectancy for a three-year period. Results suggest that casualties were most severe in 1629 and 1630, rather than in 1631, that the death rate among women was worse than that among men, even if the former had a longer l…
Statistics and Genealogy
Applications of econometrics and statistics are widely used as tools in many disciplines as a means to provide quantitative analysis to investigate hypotheses. Examples include economics, sociology, and cliometrics. While so far in a genealogy such an approach has not been attempted, in this exploratory work we suggest some possibilities for the application of such quantitative tools to the subject. In doing so, we introduce and discuss the Forec…
Death takes no bribes
Stay at Home! Governance Quality and Effectiveness of Lockdown
In order to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, during the first wave of the pandemic numerous countries decided to adopt lockdown policies. It had been a considerable time since such measures were last introduced, and the first time that they were implemented on such a global scale in a contemporary, information intensive society. The effectiveness of such measures may depend on how citizens perceive the capacity of government to set up…
In Covid We Trust
By changing many aspects of everyday life, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distance policies implemented to face it have affected the behaviour of people all over the world. Has the pandemic also affected people’s approach towards the divine? Previous evidence suggests that prayer searches on the Internet rose during the pandemic and that people tend to rely mainly on intrinsic rather than extrinsic religiousness to cope with adversity. In t…
Assessing the effectiveness of mandatory outdoor mask policy
In Hoc Signo Vinces—an Exploratory Study on the Impact of Religion on Violence in Sport
Does religion continue to spur violence even in contemporary times? This work aims to shed some light on the relationship between belonging to a given religion and violent behavior. Whereas religions often preach love and caring for others (meaning that among believers, a decrease in the level of violence may be registered), at the same time, it could be argued that a religious sense of belonging shapes self-identity and that in challenging situa…
Unveiling the Real Madrid effect
Contributing to the literature on so-called irrelevant events, this article aims to investigate the existence of a relation between football results and voters’ behaviour. There are indeed reasons to believe that football-related acrimony could influence electoral behaviour. More precisely, does the rank of a rival team and the distance between it and local teams influence the behaviour of the electorate? Spain seems to be the perfect case for st…
The institutional shaping of third sector organizations
By relying on province‐level data from Italy, this paper empirically studies the factors that correlate with the development of third sector organizations (TSOs) in the Italian territory. Moving beyond traditional explanations of TSOs development based on population heterogeneity theories, our analysis points to the role of public institutions as key driving factors of Italian TSOs development. It specifically suggests that public authorities may…
Modeling Central Asia’s Choices in Containing Covid-19
Different countries have adopted different policies in their fight against the COVID-19 outbreak. In this work we aim to model these approaches with respect to the first wave of COVID-19 (from January to October 2020) in the five Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). By means of a multivariate approach based on principal component analysis and cluster analysis, we derived three clusters. Each …
I want to break free
The revolution in the organization of work, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has had, and will have, some long-lasting consequences on how jobs will be performed, affecting adult life well-being. What we know so far about the determinant of satisfaction for work–life balance may not be valid anymore considering this sudden revolution in work organization. This \npaper presents an empirical analysis based on a cross-sectional survey of 803 worker…
The effect of self-esteem on the spread of a pandemic. A cross-country analysis of the role played by self-esteem in the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance
From Colonial Empires to Umpires
This study examines the impact that historical colonial legacies have on supraordinate behavior towards subordinates with whom a colonial past is shared. Analyzing data from the FIFA World Cup, we investigate the referee bias exhibited towards teams from formerly colonized countries and teams from countries that were formerly colonizers. Our findings reveal that referees from countries with colonial histories tend to take a stricter approach with…
Economics (18 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Pandemic (13 works) · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (9 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (9 works)