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...

The recent global financial crisis made the need for companies to have an easy access to credit greater than ever before. Consequently, the importance of the laws surrounding secured transactions has been considerably increased since many companies seek financial assistance from financial...

In an attempt to promote and gain wider acceptance of team learning activities in the classroom, researchers have recommended detailed incentive plans, ranging from controlling student behavior to instilling the fundamental values of cohort responsibility to emphasizing the benefits of lifelong...

We use meta-regression analysis to investigate the extent and nature of the gender gap - that male students outperform otherwise equivalent female students in economics courses. We survey 65 studies containing 279 distinct regressions from the past 30 years and conclude that the gender gap is...

Breaking Bad is currently ranked fifth by the Internet Movie Database's (IMDB) Top 250 television shows based on user rankings and second among 100 shows reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter. Despise the series ending in 2013, Al-Bahrani et al. (2016) find that current students still rank the show...

This is an original, hypothetical case study to be used for teaching quot;arithmetically aversequot; students of all ages. Chapter one has already been posted on SSRN. This chapter, a continuation of the quot;Robin Hood and His Outliers Saga, an Introduction to Basic Statistics,quot; illustrates...

Twitter is useful for academic economists to follow current research and public policy and to engage with their colleagues, students, and the general public. It is also a great place to gather information relevant to undergraduate economics courses. A course specific twitter hashtag embedded in...

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...

In the recent literature on conflict resolution tends to underline negotiation model based on the argument or dialogue. Exchange between different styles of argument some trends have emerged in the rhetoric applied to the law, especially in procedural law. During the last decade researchers have...

In this paper we have presented arguments for simplicity as epistemological criterion of economic research. In particular, have been important aspects that show how the tradition of the theory, to make principle simplicity to represent many empirical data of experience or information, was one of...