The claim that in policy games nonneutrality and a stagflation bias emerge in equilibrium if the unions care about inflation, per se, is discussed. This assumption is shown to be not necessary to obtain a stagflation bias; the same applies to nonneutrality if a government acts in the economy....

A profit-making financial system is introduced into the Pasinetti model of growth and distribution with the aim of showing that Pasinetti's formulation implicitly incorporated a well-defined theory of finance. In a golden age, the financial sector must set the rates of interest below the rate of...

This paper critically re-examines the restructuring of public services. Four main decision-making phases are identified: the public oversight to be guaranteed to socially sensitive economic activities; the ways of financing them; the economic organisation of the industry; and the production...

We add some elements of prospect theory to an analytically tractable version of Lucas's “islands” model and show that the inclusion of reference dependence, declining sensitivity and loss aversion into the agents’ utility function leads to four main results. First, the presence of...

<i> Relazioni triangolari nell’economia dei servizi pubblici </i> (di Daniele Archibugi, Giuseppe Ciccarone, Mauro Marè, Bernardo Pizzetti e Flaminia Violati) - ABSTRACT: The restructuring of public services is critically re-examined in this paper. It is argued that the issue of public versus...

In a unionised economy with supply-side fiscal policy transparency has two contrasting effects on economic performance. Uncertainty on central bank's preferences induces unions to reduce wages but also produces a fully-anticipated expansionary fiscal policy which favours the setting of higher...