Italian Abstract: Sono esaminati i casi di un Principale ed un Agente, in cui il principale possa agire in contesto di monopolio o di concorrenza perfetta, e l'informazione possa essere completa o meno. In particolare per informazione completa viene considerato il caso in cui sia l'azione che il...

Based on the economic literature and international comparison, the paper examines the adequacy of the terms of Italian project financing contracts to build and operate public works, and identifies potential areas for improvement. We analyze the main contractual content of the public works...

When Court enforcement is excessively difficult or costly, agents are often able to create «endogenous enforcement mechanisms», that is, to design agreements so that each party finds it optimal to carry them out (self-enforcing implicit contracts), thanks to the threat of sanctions affecting...

This paper raises a neglecteed point in the literature on local public services, showing that even "formal privatizaion" (the transformation of the service provider into a joint-stock company) has a significant influence on the agents involved. The relationship between local government and the...

The financing of innovation impacts on economic growth. What’s, among bank-based or market-based system, the best organizational form? The paper supports the view that both forms have to be merged into a unique approach (law and finance view) embracing not only the overall quality of the...

Usando un semplice modello formale, dovuto a Martin Weitzman, questo paper analizza sotto quali condizioni il sistema dei prezzi sia piu' efficace del sistema di razionamento, nel fornire un determinato bene, presente in quantita'  scarsa, a coloro che ne hanno una maggiore...

This paper confronts Greenwald's model of adverse selection in the labour market, with Topel and Ward's model of job shopping. According to Greenwald's contribution, in a sequence of periods, workers' freedom to change jobs is seriously reduced by a process of adverse selection. The labour...

Introduzione – 1. Una breve introduzione all’analisi economica dello sport – 2. Asimmetria negli incentivi ed equilibrio competitivo – 3. Asimmetria negli incentivi e pre-determinazione di un risultato – 4. L’impatto dell’asimmetria negli incentivi in presenza di doping –...

Introduzione – 1. L’economia dell’informazione – 2. Signaling e ciclismo professionistico – 3. La classifica UCI: impostazione ed effetti – 4. Il passaggio al Pro-Tour – Conclusioni

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...