PROF Pasquale Scaramozzino's Outputs (5)

Dividend Policy and Investor Pressure (2019)
Journal Article
Driver, C., Grosman, A., & Scaramozzino, P. (2020). Dividend Policy and Investor Pressure. Economic Modelling, 89, 559-576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.11.016

The economics of dividend policy has focused on the single tight narrative that dividends keep managers honest, mitigating concerns that they over-invest. This article provides a critique of that agency narrative, arguing that pressure from short-ter... Read More about Dividend Policy and Investor Pressure.

Internal Migration Is an Effective Risk Management Strategy for Households in Rural Tanzania (2019)
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Pietrelli, R., & Scaramozzino, P. (2019). Internal Migration Is an Effective Risk Management Strategy for Households in Rural Tanzania

Various explanations have been put forward to shed light on individual decisions to migrate and the effects of migration on the household of origin. Using panel data from migrants and original households living in Tanzania, Rebecca Pietrelli and Pasq... Read More about Internal Migration Is an Effective Risk Management Strategy for Households in Rural Tanzania.

Internal Migration and Vulnerability to Poverty in Tanzania (2019)
Journal Article
Pietrelli, R., & Scaramozzino, P. (2019). Internal Migration and Vulnerability to Poverty in Tanzania. Population and Development Review, 45(3), 525-547. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12247

This paper investigates whether migration reduced household vulnerability to poverty for a panel of households from the Kagera region in Tanzania over the period 2004-2010. The potential endogeneity of migration is controlled by both matching methods... Read More about Internal Migration and Vulnerability to Poverty in Tanzania.

Making information on CSR Scores Salient: A Randomised Field Experiment (2019)
Journal Article
Becchetti, L., Salustri, F., & Scaramozzino, P. (2019). Making information on CSR Scores Salient: A Randomised Field Experiment. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 81(6), 1193-1213. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12301

We locate a giant ‘school report-like’ scorecard poster with domain-specific social and environmental responsibility scores of the ten leading world food companies, measured by the Oxfam ‘Behind the Brands’ world campaign, at the entrance of selected... Read More about Making information on CSR Scores Salient: A Randomised Field Experiment.

Reference Values of Conditioned Pain Modulation (2019)
Journal Article
Schliessbach, J., Lütolf, C., Streitberger, K., Scaramozzino, P., Arendt-Nielsen, L., & Curatolo, M. (2019). Reference Values of Conditioned Pain Modulation. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 19(2), 279-286. https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2018-0356

BACKGROUND AND AIMS:
Endogenous pain modulation can be studied in humans by conditioned pain modulation (CPM): pain induced by a test stimulus is attenuated by a distantly applied noxious conditioning stimulus. The detection of impaired CPM in indiv... Read More about Reference Values of Conditioned Pain Modulation.