The spreading of the concept of sustainable development asks for a the definition of a sound common ground of the growing number of implementations. Here I propose a synopsis of the criticisms of the major methodological approaches to sustainability and point out the need, according to the...

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between financial and economic development for two countries: the US and Japan. A great deal of theoretical and empirical studies showed the existence of a close relation between the development of the financial sector and economic growth...

: This paper aims at understanding the determinants of Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises competitiveness. Having in mind the fact that the Italian economic system relies substantially on small firms which have managed to stay competitive by adopting strategies such as the creation of...

This paper attempts to underline how the Diagonal Transfer Continuity hypothesis (Baye, Tian and Zhou, 1993) and Better-Reply Security (Reny, 1999) are unconnected between themselves as sucient conditions for stating the existence of Nash equilibria. Besides, various examples and counterexamples...