We introduce a model intended for the analysis of the upgrade of the national transmission grid which explicitly accounts for responses given by the power generating companies in terms of plant expansion. The problem is modeled as a bilevel program with mixed integer structure in both, upper and...

Media play an essential role in democracy by making available valuable information for electoral decisions. In a framework of political economy of mass media, I inquiry the possibility of capture by rent-seeking o cers in a heterogeneous electoral environment. This allow me to discuss when...

We propose a TransCo model for coordinating transmission expansion planning with com- petitive generation capacity planning in electricity markets. Our purpose is to provide a tool to simulate the equilibrium interplay regarding strategic decisions of a set of power producers and a single...

The aim of this paper is to assess the effect of flexicurity on different measures of workers’ perceived security during the economic crisis. According to flexicurity principles, if a country wants to increase flexibility by lowering employment protection, it should increase security by...

We describe an optimization model to evaluate the portfolio performance in the option’s market. Hedgers, managers and investors, in agreement with Markovitz’s theory, aimed at creating a portfolio made up by assets with negative correlation, so as to have a portfolio not linked to the...

This paper examines the impact of competencies, psychological capital, new work practices and digital technologies on private sector wages in the Italian economy. It demonstrates ? also considering industry collective bargaining that tends to fix wage levels according to job complexity, moreover...

In this study we analyze the chromatin state of human pluripotent stem cells by geometric modelling of fibre conformation. The model takes into account local structure of chromatin organized into euchromatin, permissive for gene activation, and heterochromatin, transcriptionally silenced....

We provide a two-sided model in a vertical di§erentiation context. We solve the model and we calculate the equilibrium in terms of advertising levels, subscription fees and qualities provision, both in duopoly - two platforms of different quality - and in monopoly case. We would like to...