In this paper we analyze macroeconomic interactions between trade unions, the central bank and the fiscal policymaker. We explicitly model unions’ concern for public expenditure, paving the way for an analysis of the potential gains from cooperation between the fiscal policymaker and the...

The role of sociability and relational goods has generally been neglected in the formulation of standard economics textbook preferences. Our findings show that relational goods have significant and positive effects on self declared life satisfaction, net of the impact of other concurring...

Using theoretical models about the interaction between monetary policy-making and wage bargaining institutions, some researchers had been predicting an acceleration in wage growth under EMU (Iversen and Soskice 1998; Iversen et al 2000; Cukierman and Lippi 2001). However, the empirical evidence shows...

Sulla scorta di una revisione critica dei concetti di loisir, territorio, distretto, fiducia comunitaria, creatività, innovazione sociale, vengono ipotizzati dei distretti di produzione del gusto come elementi con dinamiche produttive assimilabili a quelle avute nelle regioni della c.d. Terza...