La teoria economica delle professioni si Š essenzialmente concentrata sulla individuazione della razionalita' economica esistente dietro i diversi meccanismi di regolamentazione dei mercati professionali e sui suoi possibili effetti sul benessere della collettivita'. Sono stati invece...

An argument commonly adduced to explain differences in economic development among regions is the scarcity of entrepreneurial talent in less developed regions. This paper disputes this idea, pointing out that in less developed regions the scant diffusion of innovative entrepreneurial activities...

A growing body of research focuses on banking organizational issues, emphasizing the culties encountered by hierarchically organized banks in lending to borrowers/projects with high intensity of soft information. However, as the two extreme cases of hierarchical and non-hierarchical...

The wave of bank mergers and acquisitions experienced in European and U.S. credit markets during the Nineties has deeply changed the geography of banking industry. While the number of bank branches has increased in almost every country, reducing the operational distance between banks and...