This paper examines the impact of digitalization on bank performance using a new digitalization index, based on data from 279 European banks (2017-2022). We find that higher IT investments, better network efficiency, and digital channel development enhance profitability. The Covid-19 pandemic, along with a country’s digital infrastructure and expertise, moderates these effects, shaping the profitability of digitalized banks.

This presentation evaluates Italy's 2018 labor reform, aiming to reduce temporary employment, on work-related injuries. Using a Difference-in-Differences approach, the study finds no overall impact but shows reductions in mild injuries, especially in high-risk groups. These reductions are linked to improved working conditions, highlighting the importance of focusing on conditions rather than contract types to reduce workplace accidents.

This research explores how education promotes interfaith marriage in Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim country. Using data from a school construction program, the study finds that education expansion increased interfaith marriages by fostering trust, not changing religiosity. The findings suggest that education can enhance social cohesion in conflict-prone societies.

Ticket availability is crucial for passenger satisfaction and transportation choice, yet the impact of competition on it is underexplored. Our study fills this gap by examining how a new competitor affects ticket availability, particularly regarding price and timing before departure. Using the 2018 entry of NTV (Italo) on Turin-Venice high-speed rail routes as a case, we analyzed ticket availability changes. Our findings, based on survival analysis, show that competition significantly increases the availability of cheaper tickets closer to departure.

We analyze an extension of the maximal correlation risk measure in the set-valued scenario, based on Burgert and Rüschendorf (2006). We introduce stochastic ordering for random vectors using the upper expectation operator (Hamel and Heyde, 2021) and explore its consistency for set-valued risk measures. These measures, like law-invariant set-valued risk measures (e.g., set-valued distortion risk measure from Chen and Hu, 2019), offer flexibility in adhering to portfolio aggregator axioms and proper set-valued risk measure properties.