We analyze short-term futures oil pricing over the 2003-2016 time-period in order to analyze the bubble-like dynamics, which characterizes the 2007-2009 years according to a large body of recent literature. Our investigation, based on a flexible three-agent model (hedgers, fundamentalist...

Our results show that over the period 2003-2016 a significant change in the working of oil markets occurs. Pricing investigation, which was based essentially on a traditional analysis of supply and demand forecasts, loses its explanatory power and hence its credibility. From 2009 onwards, the...

The early scientific literature which developed with the emergence of organized speculation on financial and commodity markets in the second half of the nineteenth century built on the identification of several categories of traders, from professional and amateur speculators to rentiers and...

The debate on the sustainability of public finances is closely related to the analysis of the financial and macroeconomic consequences of government debt accumulation. Focusing on the USA, Germany and Italy over the 1983-2003 period, the central issue addressed in this paper is how the...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. New Perspective for the History of Economic Thought -- Chapter 2. The methodological role of the history of economic thought -- Chapter 3. A bibliometric portrait of contemporary history of economic thought -- Chapter 4. Moving boundaries with gender budgeting:...