This thesis consists of three interdependent and original works on the relationship between Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and bond spreads. Chapter 1 studies the behaviour of the CDS-bond basis, i.e. the difference between ...

In questa tesi, analizziamo tre problemi relativi alla Microeconomia. Gli argomenti spaziano dal marketing, alla teoria dei giochi fino alla economia dell’ambiente. Il primo capitolo presenta un nuovo modello sulla persuasione ...

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 ...