According to the conventional theory of the demographic transition, mortality decline has represented the major trigger for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a devastating impact on mortality, by...

A central policy issue in the battle against HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is whether and when high-prevalence countries might become fully autonomous in designing and implementing their own intervention policies aimed to control the disease. The aim of this research is twofold. First, it...

Motivated by the complicated control issues of COVID-19, this article aims at investigating the optimal control of an epidemic of a Susceptible-Infective-Removed-Susceptible (SIRS) infection, where social distancing is the only control action in a first stage, whereas a combination of social...

In an industry characterised by the presence of network effects, this paper investigates a duopolistic game in which firms may choose whether to bargain over wages and employment with unions or to face a competitive labour market (i.e. without unions). If unions are sufficiently risk-averse, it...

In questo lavoro si sviluppa un modello a 'generazioni sovrapposte' in cui vi è tassazione 'anticipata' degli interessi sul risparmio e vi è fornitura di un bene di consumo pubblico, analizzando i risultati di lungo periodo relativamente al rapporto tra la tassazione e consumi, investimenti e...

In questo lavoro si sviluppa un modello di economia mondiale a due paesi a 'generazioni sovrapposte', col quale si analizza l'effetto della tassazione dei redditi e della fornitura di un input pubblico alla produzione in una cornice di equilibrio di lungo periodo. Diversamente dal altri recenti...

In un modello a generazioni sovrapposte con tassazione 'anticipata' sul risparmio si analizzano gli effetti dell'integrazione sul benessere, concludendo che le generazioni viventi al momento dell'integrazione 'guadagneranno' dalla medesima se il proprio paese ha un'aliquota minore di quella...

In this paper the authors investigate whether and how, in a network industry, the intensity of network effects affect the total pollution under the presence of a union interested to "local" environmental damages (e.g. polluting production processes damaging workers' health and the local...

In a Cournot duopoly model in which exporters compete in a third market, this paper revisits the classical issue (dating back to the pioneering work of Brander and Spencer, Export Share and International Market Share Rivalry, 1985) of the strategic trade policy choice in the presence of the...

In a Cournot duopoly model in which exporters compete in a third market, this paper revisits the classical issue (dating back to the pioneering work of Brander and Spencer, Export Share and International Market Share Rivalry, 1985) of the strategic trade policy choice in the presence of the...