Software industry is a fast growing sector of the economy which is undergoing significant changes both for the presence of the open source mode of production and for the challenges of globalization and convergence with other industries. This paper analyses the role of open source software (OSS)...

We develop a model of simultaneous and sequential voting in a committee where members do not share their private information and do not have the same preferences. When objective functions differ, an optimal order in the sequential game can be found, leading to a unique socially optimal...

Nel presente quaderno ho riprodotto la trascrizione dell’incontro con il Prof. Paolo Sylos Labini, svoltosi il 6 marzo 2002 nell’Aula Magna dell’Ateneo di Milano Bicocca. A tale trascrizione ho poi aggiunto una serie di note esplicative e una nota bio-bibliografica che spero il lettore...

This paper proposes a new method for the measurement of the quality of relational life. Building on the recent literature on the determinants of subjective well-being, we use implicit valuations estimated from microeconometric life-satisfaction equations to weigh and aggregate scores on several...

In this paper, we show that low trend inflation strongly affects the dynamics of a standard Neo-keynesian model where monetary policy is described by a standard Taylor rule. In particular, we show that trend inflation: (i) enlarges the indeterminacy region in the parameter space, substantially...

The combination of special interest politics (agency problems) and informational asymmetries presents serious problems as the implementation of Fund conditionality is concerned. In this paper we focus on the role that the transmission of information between the IMF and the borrowing government...

The limits of the utilitarian approach have led to a search for different notions of welfare. The income approach to well-being, in fact, doesn’t account for the diversity in human beings and for the heterogeneities of contingent circumstances. Amartya Sen, looking for broader notions of...

This paper aims to explore the peak-load price results arising in a congestion game setting. A continuum of players decide when consuming a service (say, during the day or the night): for instance, they choose when connecting to internet or when driving a car in the road network. The utility...

La letteratura economica si è occupata dell'analisi dell'esternalità principalmente da un punto di vista normativo. In questo lavoro, invece, si presenta una rassegna dell'analisi positiva dell'esternalità nel consumo, evidenziandone poossibili estensioni e approfondimenti. Si pongonono...

Il modello tradizionale di comportamento del consumatore è basato sull’ipotesi di razionalità, ovvero il consumatore effettua le proprie scelte massimizzando la funzione d'utilità soggetta al vincolo di bilancio. Questo approccio richiede che ogni consumatore abbia una completa conoscenza...