This paper examines the retirement decisions of Italian households using data from the Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) for 2008. The analysis focuses on the adequacy of pension wealth, knowledge of supplementary retirement rules, the determinants of enrolment decisions and...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce una rassegna della letteratura sull’educazione finanziaria; riassume i risultati delle indagini statistiche in Italia e i problemi di misurazione dell’alfabetizzazione finanziaria; sintetizza il dibattito internazionale di policy; illustra le iniziative...

Italian Abstract: Il sostegno finanziario offerto da parenti o amici è aumentato con la crisi, sia in termini di frequenza, sia negli importi. Per i beneficiari, il sostegno della rete informale è di ammontare comparabile al ricorso al credito al consumo; la sua diffusione rimane tuttavia...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza le tendenze del mercato del credito al consumo durante la crisi usando i dati, di fonte CRIF, relativi alle domande di prestiti personali e finalizzati e ai contratti stipulati tra il 2007 e il 2013 in Italia (55 e 37 milioni rispettivamente). L'analisi...

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...

Risky investment projects make the coordination among small, uninformed investors hard to achieve, and generate inefficient low levels of investment. Several authors have pointed out the benefits to an economy from multiple avenues of financial intermediation. This paper explains endogenously...

In this paper we present and solve some bargaining games a la Rubinstein, where the subjects can delegate the negotiating process to agents. Delegation is a possible commitment tactic. Its aim is to provide the delegating party with a higher bargaining power. When both the parties delegate,...

This paper provides a genera1 framework to analyze rational learning in strategic situations where the players have private information and update their private priors collecting data through optimal experimentation. The theory of statistica1 inference for stochastic processes and of Markovian...

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...

Italian Abstract: Vengono esposti i tradizionali modelli di oligopolio con bene omogeneo a mosse simultanee, sequenziali e colllusive, con variabile strategica quantità o prezzo. L'utilizzo di funzioni lineari permette di calcolare e comparare tutte le soluzioni