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Overview

Leonardo Becchetti is affiliated with the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a notable concentration in economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, social psychology, accounting, and general health professions.

The main topics covered in Becchetti's work include psychological well-being and life satisfaction, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, experimental behavioral economics studies, COVID-19 impact on air quality, health disparities and outcomes, corporate social responsibility reporting, and the broader effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Frequent coauthors in Becchetti's research include Gianluigi Conzo, Francesco Salustri, Fabio Pisani, Pierluigi Conzo, and Sara Mancini.

Becchetti has contributed extensively to several publication venues, most frequently publishing in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Sustainability, International Review of Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Applied Economics.

Selected recent papers by Leonardo Becchetti include:

  • The Gender Life Satisfaction/Depression Paradox, 2021, Social Indicators Research
  • Corporate social irresponsibility: The relationship between ESG misconduct and the cost of equity, 2023, International Review of Financial Analysis
  • Understanding the Heterogeneity of Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes: the Role of Poor Quality of Air and Lockdown Decisions, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Measuring investments progress in ecological transition: The Green Investment Financial Tool (GIFT) approach, 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Going Deeper into the S of ESG: A Relational Approach to the Definition of Social Responsibility, 2022, Sustainability

Best Publications

  • The Determinants of Growth for Small and Medium Sized Firms. The Role of the Availability of External Finance

    Leonardo Becchetti;Giovanni Trovato

  • Relational Goods, Sociability, and happiness

    Leonardo Becchetti;Alessandra Pelloni;Fiammetta Rossetti

  • The Green Bonds Premium Puzzle: The Role of Issuer Characteristics and Third-Party Verification

    Maria Jua Bachelet;Leonardo Becchetti;Stefano Manfredonia

  • Corporate social responsibility and shareholder's value

    Leonardo Becchetti;Rocco Ciciretti;Iftekhar Hasan;Iftekhar Hasan;Nada Kobeissi

  • Bankruptcy risk and productive efficiency in manufacturing firms

    Leonardo Becchetti;Jaime Sierra

  • Corporate social responsibility and corporate performance: evidence from a panel of US listed companies

    Leonardo Becchetti;Stefania Di Giacomo;Damiano Pinnacchio

  • The Positive Effect of Industrial District on the Export Performance of Italian Firms

    L Becchetti;Stefania Patrizia Sonia Rossi

  • Global Social Preferences and the Demand for Socially Responsible Products: Empirical Evidence from a Pilot Study on Fair Trade Consumers

    Leonardo Becchetti;Furio Camillo Rosati

  • ICT Investment, Productivity and Efficiency: Evidence at Firm Level Using a Stochastic Frontier Approach

    Leonardo Becchetti;Luigi Paganetto;David Londono Bedoya

  • Corporate social responsibility, stakeholder risk, and idiosyncratic volatility

    Leonardo Becchetti;Rocco Ciciretti;Iftekhar Hasan;Iftekhar Hasan

  • The Effects of Fair Trade on Affiliated Producers: An Impact Analysis on Kenyan Farmers

    Leonardo Becchetti;Marco Costantino

  • The Determinants of Motion Picture Box Office Performance: Evidence from Movies Produced in Italy

    M. Bagella;L. Becchetti

  • Corporate social responsibility and shareholder's value: an event study analysis

    Leonardo Becchetti;Rocco Ciciretti;Iftekhar Hasan

  • Corporate social responsibility and stock market performance

    Leonardo Becchetti;Rocco Ciciretti

  • Corporate social responsibility and shareholder's value: An event study analysis

    Leonardo Becchetti;Rocco Ciciretti;Iftekhar Hasan

  • Socially responsible and conventional investment funds: performance comparison and the global financial crisis

    Leonardo Becchetti;Rocco Ciciretti;Ambrogio Dalò;Stefano Herzel

  • THE DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED FIRMS

    L Becchetti;G Trovato

  • Income, relational goods and happiness

    Leonardo Becchetti;Giovanni Trovato;David Andres Londono Bedoya

  • The Dynamics of Fair Trade as a Mixed-form Market

    Leonardo Becchetti;Benjamin Huybrechts

  • ICT investment, productivity and efficiency: evidence at firm level using a stochastic frontier approach

    L. Becchetti;David andres londono Bedoya;L. Paganetto

  • Financial education and investment attitudes in high schools: evidence from a randomized experiment

    Leonardo Becchetti;Stefano Caiazza;Decio Coviello

  • Productivity, wages and intrinsic motivations

    Leonardo Becchetti;Stefano Castriota;Ermanno C. Tortia

  • ICT "bottlenecks" and the wealth of nations: a contribution to the empirics of economic growth

    F Adriani;L Becchetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Iftekhar Hasan
Iftekhar Hasan Fordham University
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu Cornell University
Andrew E. Clark
Andrew E. Clark Paris School of Economics
Arnoud W. A. Boot
Arnoud W. A. Boot University of Amsterdam
Robert Lensink
Robert Lensink University of Groningen
Paul Wachtel
Paul Wachtel New York University
Mark J. Taylor
Mark J. Taylor Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Carlo Pietrobelli
Carlo Pietrobelli Roma Tre University
Lucio Sarno
Lucio Sarno University of Cambridge

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