Niccolò Casnici

University of Brescia | UNIBS · Department of Economics and Management

The article presents a research on second-level industrial relations in the Brescia manufacturing district, one of the main industrial areas in Italy. By using a multivariate quantitative methodology, the study analyses the content of 643 company-level agreements, which have been signed by 319 enterprises from 2016 to 2019. The main purpose of the...

This paper investigates how reports concerning a given country’s prospects affect investment decisions in two stylized, artificial organizational settings. We designed a role-game laboratory experiment, where subjects were asked to make investment decisions for two types of fictitious companies from the same country. We found that when available re...

This paper investigates the diffusion of around 100,000 articles about literary authors in 52 versions of Wikipedia. We studied how Wiki versions replicate articles of authors belonging to a particular linguistic group and we collected findings about the potential mechanisms governing the replication process and its fairness. Results showed that di...

In this paper, we focus on limited and joint-stock active companies operating between 2008 and 2016 within the Brescian manufacturing system (n=7,619). After processing data for 1,047 firm-level agreements, we examined the impact of economic and organisational features on companies' decentralised bargaining activity. In a first probit model, the pu...

Peer review is not only a quality screening mechanism for scholarly journals. It also connects authors and referees either directly or indirectly. This means that their positions in the network structure of the community could influence the process, while peer review could in turn influence subsequent networking and collaboration. This paper aims t...

This article examines information-search heuristics and communication patterns in an online forum of investors during a period of market uncertainty. Global connections, real-time communication, and technological sophistication have created an unpredictable market environment. As such, investors try to deal with semantic, strategic, and operational...

Background Certain features of the social environment could maintain and even improve not only psychological well-being, but also health and cognition of the elderly. AimsWe tested the association between social network characteristics and the number of chronic diseases in the elderly. MethodsA randomized sample of the elderly population of Brescia...

This paper looks at 10 years of reviews in a multidisciplinary journal, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), which is the flagship journal of social simulation. We measured referee behavior and referees' agreement. We found that the disciplinary background and the academic status of the referee have an influence on the...

This paper examines the bibliometric impact of JASSS on other ISI- and Scopus-indexed sources by examining inward and outward citations and their inter-relation. Given the prestige of JASSS, this analysis can measure the growth and dynamics of social simulation and give us an indication of the direction in which social simulation is moving. Results...

La comprensione delle modalità attraverso cui gli attori econo-mici cooperano riducendo le asimmetrie informative e costruendo fiducia è cruciale soprattutto oggi dove i mercati sono sempre più globalizzati e le istituzioni formali di regolazione dell'inte-razione economica sembrano giocare un ruolo minore rispetto a meccanismi endogeni ed informal...