Durante gli anni settanta e i primi anni ottanta numerosi contributi hanno analizzato le conseguenze di uno stato conflittuale delle relazioni industriali sulle performances delle imprese nel sistema industriale italiano.

Una delle principali questioni aperte nell'esaminare lo sviluppo economico italiano del dopoguerra è quella di spiegare la ragione per cui la struttura industriale italiana è stata ed è tuttora caratterizzata da una dimensione media di impianti e da un livello di concentrazione relativamente...

Molti sono i beni la cui utilità per i consumatori non dipende dalle loro caratteristiche intrinseche, ma piuttosto dall'assistenza di un numero elevato di acquisizioni dello stesso prodotto da parte di altri consumatori.

Optimal rules for the provision of collective factor of production have been quite extensively investigated since the seminal cotributions of Kaizuka (1965) and Sandro (1972), that may be regarded as the counterpart of the Samuelson's papers on the optimal allocation of public goods amoung...

The object of this paper is to investigate social and strategic overinvestment in cost reducing inputs, when such investment enters directly in the other firms' objective function.

A two stage model is built where the first period strategic variable is used to update the information available on some private characteristics of the rival firms.

An optimal mechanism fot the provision of impure public inputs to oligopolistic firms is investigated using a three stage game where in the first stage the public agency which provides the public input fixes a non-linear price schedule.

We propose a theory of the origin of the State as an institution originating from the voluntary interaction among decentralized and fully informed agents.

This paper is an attempt to describe the discal structure of State as an equilibrium of a non-cooperative game where decentralized agents play both political and economic strategies. We propose a theory of fiscal equilibria (describing features of direct and indirect taxation as well as of the...

Financial incentives in primary care have been often introduced with the purpose of improving appropriateness of care and containing demand. We usually observe pay-for-performance programs, but alternatives have been also implemented, such as pay-for-participation in improvement activities and...