This thesis is composed by three chapters that correspond to three articles. The first two chapters deal with the theory of inter-temporal choices. A new concept, called delay aversion, is introduced and is analysed in ...

The issues explored in this work concern individual behaviour and its departure from the rationality paradigm. While different in terms of underlying methodology, the chapters share the unifying theme of fairness as a ...

Solvency II introduced a consistent and homogeneous micro-prudential market based evaluation of assets and liabilities for the European undertakings embedding elements aimed at smoothing potential unintended effects at ...

In questa tesi studiamo alcuni problemi legati a modelli Markov Switching (MS) e alle loro applicazioni in Economia e Finanza. Lo scopo del nostro studio è proporre soluzioni per la selezione del modello e per la stima di ...

The thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter we study a communicationgame played by three agents with conflicting and state independent preferences. Each possible outcome of the game uniquely corresponds to ...

Graph theory has long been studied in mathematics and probability as a tool for describing dependence between nodes. However, only recently it has been implemented on data, givin birth to the statistical analysis of real ...

This thesis explores the microeconomics of bioenergy with focus on Brazil. The three chapters are interconnected by this thread. The first chapter investigates empirically land use patterns for liquid biofuels production ...

In this dissertation, we study two questions of strategic behavior. One is related to the trade in strategic market games. The paper studies strategic market games with wash sales. This class of games posses best response ...

This PHD dissertation develops fixed point theory issues. Fixed point theory is at the heart of the nonlinear analysis. One amongst the first and famous results is Brouwer's fixed point theorem (1910). Two years after, ...

In this thesis, I analyze how and why social conventions emerge across distinct contexts and their impact on different economic environments. In the first and fourth chapters, I employ evolutionary game theory techniques ...