This thesis sheds new light on the link between gender inequality and intrahousehold bargaining power with respect to health-related outcomes, human capital, labour market and fertility. Gender specialisation and ...

This work presents a dynamic structural model of saving, labour supply, disability insurance and private pension claiming decisions in order to provide a quantitative assessment of the labour market effects and the ...

This thesis is a collection of three distinct essays that study the impact of fiscal policy, peer behaviour and financial literacy on household portfolio choices and provide foundation for policy interventions. Chapter 1 ...

Nella lunga fase di crisi che l’economia italiana sta attraversando, i buoni risultati ottenuti dalle “medie imprese industriali” in termini di redditività, occupazione e posizionamento sui mercati internazionali, meritano ...

This thesis centers on introducing modern non-linear approaches for data analysis in economics and finance with special attention on business cycles and financial crisis. It is now well stated in the statistical and economic ...

We contribute to the design of a new generation of non parametric descriptive statistics that are able to enlighten some characteristics of the dependence structure of a system of random variables, in order to act as a ...

Chapter1: We study the bivariate jump process involving the S&P 500 and the Euro Stoxx 50 index with jumps extracted from high frequency data using non-parametric methods. Our analysis, based on the generalized Hawkes ...

Questa tesi applica strumenti dall'analisi dinamica per rispondere a domande relative ai comportamenti di pensionamento e / o ai mercati immobiliari. Nel primo capitolo intitolato “Long-Term Care Insurance, Housing Demand, ...