International trade and social connectedness

Social Standards in International Trade

Social Connectedness and Retirement

The Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) is a leading research centre, combining expertise in economics, geography and law. Our objective is to study the intersection between the public and private sectors of the economy, and in particular to understand the right way to organise and deliver public services. The Centre aims to develop research, contribute to the public debate and inf...

Social connectedness: concept and measurement

Social connectedness, i.e. the experience of belonging and relatedness between people, is a central concept in understanding and evaluating communication media, in particular awareness systems. A generic measure based on this construct can support the design of such systems. The current paper describes the construction of two questionnaires for the measurement of this concept. These questionnai...

Social connectedness as resource of resilience: Italian validation of the Social Connectedness Scale - Revised Social connectedness come risorsa di resilienza: validazione italiana della Social Connectedness Scale - Revised

Objectves Considering social variables influencing psychological well-being and protecting from development of mental disease, social support received great attention. In recent years the focus shifted toward more general constructs that can account for stability and coherence of the scheme that each person applies to relate to the social word as a whole. The construct of social connectedness s...

The Dynamic Effect of International Trade Institutions on Social Regulation

How do international trade institutions shape social regulations? I develop a dynamic model of domestic regulation under international trade institutions. While international trade institutions invalidate harmful protectionist regulations, they could also indirectly increase regulation by inducing citizens to dismantle domestic institutional constraints on it. If the total effect is a reduction...