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  • Three essays on cheap talk 
    Chand, Arya Kumar Srustidhar <1984> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-05-06)
    The three essays in this thesis are based on strategic communication associated with the Cheap Talk literature. The first essay is a discussion of strategic communication that arises in the classical resource allocation ...
  • Three essays on competition in the global mobile phone industry 
    Onoz, Ergun <1988> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-01-28)
    This dissertation that includes three quantitative essays on competition in the global mobile phone industry contributes to the field of competitive dynamics by examining strategic decisions and performance outcomes of 85 ...
  • Three essays on competitive dynamics and imitation 
    Li Pira, Stefano <1982> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015-02-27)
    This dissertation includes the research I conducted in the fields of competitive dynamics, imitation and experimental economics. It is composed of three essays. The first essay deals with the performance implications of ...
  • Three essays on computational methods for policy making 
    Gerotto, Luca <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-03-01)
    Chapters One and Two develop a common-source infection model to explain the formation of households expectations. The model is based on the work presented in "Macroeconomic Expectations of Households and Professional ...
  • Three essays on conformity and corporate governance in multinational enterprises 
    Kumodzie-Dussey, Makafui Kwame <1985> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-01-28)
    Information-based theories of imitation suggest that firms would imitate others they perceive as possessing superior information when they are faced with uncertainty regarding a course of action. We draw on these theories ...
  • Three essays on corporate governance and firm risk-taking & performance outcomes 
    Addo, Kwabena Aboah <1988> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-01-28)
    The recent global financial crisis has drawn the attention of corporate stakeholders including scholars to re-examine the role of corporate governance practices across entities. Specifically, policymakers questioned the ...
  • Three essays on corporate takeovers 
    Hussaini, Mussa <1985> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-01-21)
    Within the research area of corporate takeover, understanding the drivers of the choice of payment method is significantly important. This is accrued to the fact that the choice of payment method can affect various aspects ...
  • Three essays on cultural evolution 
    Panebianco, Fabrizio <1982> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-09-17)
    Questa tesi è focalizzata sullo studio dell’evoluzione delle preferenze, delle norme sociali e delle attitudini in un contesto nel quale esse evolvono insieme all’ambiente circostante e nel quale gli agenti sono chiamati ...
  • Three essays on economic interactions under bounded rationality 
    Surucu, Oktay <1979> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2011-04-04)
    The issues explored in this work concern economic interactions under bounded rationality. Each chapter considers these interactions from di erent angles. The first chapter characterizes the optimal contract designed by an ...
  • Three essays on employment and fiscal policy 
    Tafuro, Andrea <1986> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017-01-27)
    The thesis is devoted to study some aspects related to the dynamics of the labor market, and is composed by three chapters. Chapter 1 verifies whether fiscal policy triggers hysteresis in the labor market, influencing the ...
  • Three essays on ethical consumption and social responsibility 
    Fanelli, Domenico <1981> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-09-17)
    Una recente letteratura sulla Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa – che presentiamo nel Capitolo 1 – evidenzia come solo una quota di consumatori che si dichiara “socialmente responsabile” acquisti i prodotti delle imprese ...
  • Three essays on European immigrants ​ 
    Naci, Rinaldo <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-02-03)
    Questa tesi è una raccolta di tre saggi incentrati sugli immigrati europei. In particolare, i primi due esaminano la performance dell'immigrato nel mercato finanziario e nel mercato del lavoro, rispettivamente, mentre il ...
  • Three Essays on Experimental Economics 
    Longo, Enrico <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022-02-11)
    La tesi si compone di tre capitoli che indagano tre tematiche differenti, la metodologia utilizzata e che accomuna i tre capitoli è quella dell'economia sperimentale. Il primo capitolo analizza il comportamento degli ...
  • Three essays on female entrepreneurship in resource-constrained environments 
    Atarah, Bede Akorige <1982> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-02-07)
    Female entrepreneurship is increasingly playing important roles in the economic growth of many countries. Several businesses providing employment to many people and producing a lot revenue are created and managed by women. ...
  • Three essays on group dynamics, other-regarding preferences and cooperation 
    Cruciani, Caterina <1981> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-05-06)
    La tesi affronta dinamiche di preferenze altruistiche in contesti informali, in cui non sia possibile creare vincoli formali tra gli individui. Il primo articolo indaga con un esperimento se i gruppi risultino più egoisti ...
  • Three essays on institutional voids and firms' strategy in emerging markets 
    Peprah, Augustine Awuah <1984> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-01-19)
    Emerging economies do not only present growth prospects to entrant firms but also significant operational challenges. Some of these operational difficulties emanate from the institutional environment in the emerging ...
  • Three essays on international marketing in the Chinese market 
    Hu, Lala <1984> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017-02-07)
    With a population of 1.3 billion, China is the world’s second largest economy. It has recently entered a “new normal” phase, characterized by slower economic growth. However, the rise of the middle class and strong consumer ...
  • Three essays on leadership and cooperation in public good games 
    Concina, Laura <1982> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012-03-23)
    The issues explored in this thesis concerns public good games. We tackle the topic from di erent prospectives focusing on leadership and cooperation. Each chapter considers public good games from di erent angles. In the ...
  • Three essays on microeconometrics analysis of development in Ethiopia 
    Gebremariam, Aregawi Gebremedhin <1987> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-02-01)
    This dissertation, composed of three essays, focuses on children's educational aspirations and attendances, and household’s access to credit applying microeconometrics tools. All the three papers made use of the Young Lives ...
  • Three essays on network failure, coordination and cooperation 
    Moretti, Anna <1983> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012-09-07)
    Networks are pervasive in social life, and thus the investigation of their evolutionary dynamics, as well as coordination and cooperation mechanisms at the bases of their functioning, have attracted a lot of interest. ...