More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...

Come incrementare l'efficacia degli interventi di "advocacy" al fine di favorire la creazione di un contesto regolatorio pro-concorrenziale, obiettivo che accomuna regolatori di settore e autorità antitrust? Al fine di rispondere a questa domanda sono analizzati e comparati tre strumenti: l'uso...

The Shapley value of a cooperative transferable utility game distributes the dividend of each coalition in the game equally among its members. Given exogenous weights for all players, the corresponding weighted Shapley value distributes the dividends proportionally to their weights. In this...

Shares with more voting rights than cash flow rights provide their owners with a disproportional influence that is often found to destroy the value of outside equity. This is taken as evidence of discretionary use of power. However, concentration of power does not necessarily result from control...