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Financial Literacy: a Key Tool to Improve People's Life Cycle

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Economic financial literacy is a key skill to achieve an active citizenship and to improve financial wellbeing, in a challenging environment. Financially-literate people budget, save, control spending better; handle mortgage, participate in financial markets, moving from basic financial skills to a more complex wealth management know how. The latter is thus vital for low income groups to prevent t ...
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Subjective well-being and fertility (SWELL-FER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The project is about subjective well-being (SWB) and demographic behaviour, with a particular focus on fertility in advanced societies, across time and space. The project is motivated by the fact that European and other advanced industrialized countries have for decades experienced below-replacement fertility levels, which are now posing dramatic challenges to ageing population structures. Cross-s ...
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Decentralized Markets with Informational Asymmetries (InfoAsymMarkets)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The goal of this proposal is to advance the theory of decentralized trade with informational asymmetries and limited commitment.In most trading situations, some of the parties possess superior information about critical aspects of the environment. For example, in financial markets, professional investors are better informed about the quality of the assets that they sell to individuals. Similarly, ...
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New directions in Bayesian Nonparametrics (N-BNP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The popularity of Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) inference is rapidly growing within both the academic community and practitioners. Indeed the BNP viewpoint naturally allows for rich and flexible probabilistic modeling and, via conditional (or posterior) distributions, for accurate function estimation, most notably of probability distributions, regression functions and hazard rates. After de Finetti ...
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MOBILISING THE POTENTIAL OF ACTIVE AGEING IN EUROPE (MOPACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The starting point for MOPACT is the ambitious goals set by Horizon 2020 and the European Innovation Partnership Pilot Project on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA). Our response is ambitious too: we aim to provide the research and practical evidence upon which Europe can make longevity an asset for social and economic development. MOPACT will create a high quality, multi-disciplinary critical mas ...
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Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations (FAMILIESANDSOCIETIES)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The main objectives of this project are to investigate the diversity of family forms, relationships, and life courses in Europe; to assess the compatibility of existing policies with these changes; and to contribute to evidence-based policy-making. The project will extend our knowledge on how policies promote well-being, inclusion and sustainable societal development among families. Our approach r ...
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Policy Incentives for the Creation of Knowledge: Methods and Evidence (PICK-ME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The ongoing global economic crisis is seriously challenging advanced capitalistic economies. In the last year the GDP has fallen at dramatic rates, creating the conditions for the upsurge of unemployment, above all in areas characterized by specialization in mature industries. According to recent growth models and empirical evidence, innovation and knowledge creation represent the main factors abl ...
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Bounded rationality and social concerns in decision processes: theory, experiments, and applications (BRSCDP-TEA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In the field of economics, individual decision making is the basic building block for studying complex environments such as markets, political systems, and social dynamics. Individual decision making is embodied in the neoclassical economically rational agent, whose only concern is the maximization of utility from his own material consumption. Two qualities of this agent are especially important f ...
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Work and Life Quality in New and Growing Jobs (WALQING)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"In order to explore the linkages between ‘new jobs’, conditions of work and employment in these jobs and more or less favourable outcomes for employees’ quality of work and life, WALQING combines data analysis on the chief European data sources, in-depth comparative investigation of stakeholder policies, organisational arrangements and strategies, and the perspectives and agency of individuals in ...
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