Italian Abstract: Questa tesi tratta problemi di valutazione delle opzioni cosiddette "reali". La prima parte descrive le due tecniche di valutazione principali (contingent claims analysis e programmazione dinamica stocastica), la seconda parte si concentra sulle opzioni "comuni" (cioè,...

Italian Abstract: In queste note si cerca di evidenziare come l'asset pricing, nel contesto di stati di natura discreti emercati completi, sia un metodo per spostare ricchezza attraverso gli stati di natura, per ottenere un consumo il più possibile omogeneo nei diversi stati di natura....

The agricultural yield is affected by several risks, main of them are not controllable by humans. For this reason, the CAP has established several interventions to help guaranteeing a stable and appropriate income to farmers. One of the main policy interventions established in the current CAP...

Italian Abstract: Elementi di teoria dei giochi necessari ad implementare e risolvere giochi statici e dinamici con informazione completa e incompleta. Particolare attenzione e dettagli di soluzione sono esposti per i giochi bayesiani dinamici con informazione incompleta

In this paper we present an integral equation approach for the valuation of European-style installment derivatives when the premium payments, made continuously throughout the contract’s life, are assumed to be a function of the asset price and time variables. The contribution of this study is...

Recently, within several debates, the idea of a participatory economy has been recovered as a viable solution towards labour and firm’s costs flexibility to cope with unemployment and the increasingly competitive economic environment. This paper is an attempt to integrate the main recent...

Questo lavoro presenta un nuovo modello di scelta in condizioni di incertezza. Dopo aver introdotto una caratterizzazione del concetto di incertezza, si dimostra, su base assiomatica, come sia possibile interpretare la funzione di entropia come misura di incertezza debole. I concetti di entropia...

In the traditional models of customer markets it can be identified a price rigidity due to the existence of a discontinuity in the firm’s marginal revenue curve. This paper presents a microeconomic model that combines the hypothesis of a risk-averse pricesetting firm with the customer markets...

Admissibility, i.e. the deletion of weakly dominated strategies, is a highly controversia1 solution concept for non cooperative games. This paper proposes a complete theory of weak dominance and, contrary to almost al1 the literature on this topic, it provides positive results on foundations of...

Cost-benefit analysis allows to assess in advance the performance of investment projects through the calculation of appropriate indices, such as the NPV, the IRR, the B/C ratio. Performance indicators are, however, affected by the uncertainty inherent in the exercise of forecasting the future...