By starting from two recent books by Brookings, in this review we briefly argue for institutions: building processes aimed to provide rules, norms and standards for the collective governance of financial markets. Copyright Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, 2004

Seeing network resources as a public good involves to mantain open and shared access to them for any user. Nevertheless, these conditions may be really difficult to achieve in presence of well-endowed users with heavy data flows. Our purpose here is to provide a two stage game form for managing...

Feminist studies have developed several tools to assess the gender impact of public policy and, in particular, of public budgets. We introduce an innovative approach to gender auditing of public budgets inspired by the capability approach. On the one hand we expand the scope of assessing the...

In this note, we firstly discuss Chakravarty (2003) axiomatic foundation of the Generalized Human Development Index (GHDI) then we pro- pose a different set of axioms through which a class of Foster-Shorrocks-like Human Development Measures phases out. As we will argue, this class better deals...

Il concetto di poverta' e stato, negli ultimi anni, ampiamente dibattuto all'interno delle scienze sociali. La giungla terminologica e la polisemia di significati associati al termine hanno, tuttavia, alimentato piu' confusioni e dispute che agevolato la reale comprensione delle diverse radici...

In this paper, we model socially-embedded games. We use non-cooperative game forms with pure strategy Nash equilibria and embed them through framing structures. These frames alter how players perceive the game, or rule out the choice of some elements of players’ option sets. In this way, we...

The seminal research work by Kaheman and Tversky proved that framing effects can widely influence choice behavior. This finding has led to a new field of economic research to explain how individuals internalize referential structures, context conditions and social norms of behavior in choice...

Feminist studies have developed several tools to assess the gender impact of public policy and of budgets in particular. In this paper we introduce an innovative approach to the gender auditing of public budgets inspired by the capability approach. First, we expand the scope of the assessment of...

<i> Regolamentazione dell’accesso nei settori a rete: la tariffazione delle essential facilitiesin Italia </i> (di Matteo Carassiti eDiego Lanzi) - ABSTRACT: In this essay we analyse how Italian regulatory bodies have applied in network industries economic theory insights about access conditions to...

<i> Intranet, comunicazione culturale e politica industriale </i> (di Diego Lanzi) - ABSTRACT: Organizing an Intranet for cultural communication firms can improve their performances sharing among them services’ cost, inducing joint projects and innovations. Hence an industrial policy, aimed to induce...