The paper proposes a critical analysis, based on consistency criteria, regarding the controversed current state of the informational efficiency theory of the capital market (Efficient Market Hypothesis). Nowadays, after several decades of research and thousands of studies, economists have not...

Rational investors perceive correctly the value of financial information. Investment in information is therefore rewarded with a higher Sharpe ratio. Overconfident investors overstate the quality of their own information, and thus attain a lower Sharpe ratio. We contrast the implications of the...

In this paper I shall introduce a new method by which it is possible to study the dynamical decision maker's behaviour. It can be tought of as an application of the S -Linear Algebra of Professor David Carfì, thus this theory it is assumed to be known. I shall focus on the Feynman's propagator...

This article offers an approach to the general structure of the controversy in economy. In our case we adopted a perspective to study a particular aspect of the rhetoric that comes from the context of a particular controversy: the controversy on the advantages of the free commerce between Daly...

We discuss how the field of Neuroeconomics can be useful to analyze classical economic problems, in Decision Theory and Game Theory. The paper will review some of the results appeared recently, as well an attempt to provide a theory to organize research in htis area

We develop a framework for optimal taxation when agents can earn their income both in traditional activities, where private and social products coincide, and in rent-seeking activities, where private returns exceed social returns either because they involve the capture of pre-existing rents or...

Many consumers make poor financial choices and older adults are particularly vulnerable to such errors. About half of the population between ages 80 and 89 either has dementia or a medical diagnosis of quot;cognitive impairment without dementia.quot; We study lifecycle patterns in financial...