In questa tesi di dottorato diversi fenomeni di violenza politica e civile vengono analizzati mediante l’impiego di metodi quantitativi. In particolare, il primo capitolo della tesi sviluppa un modello ad agenti in grado ...

La tesi presenta tre studi di ricerca su temi bancari connessi ad alcuni eventi osservati durante la recente crisi bancaria dei mutui subprime. Il primo capitolo della tesi collega la creazione di liquidità del settore ...

Chapter 1: Bringing existing inequality in South Africa (high) and Switzerland (low) to the lab, we study how people’s preferences for redistribution change with the level of income inequality, income mobility, uncertainty ...

The aim of this dissertation is to highlight the importance of re-contextualizing the individual in economic analysis. In particular, the emphasis is placed on human relationality in its non-instrumental form for the study ...

The thesis contributes to the literature on Bayesian nonparametrics by proposing two approaches, the first one related to time series analysis with a focus on sparsity of the matrix of coefficients and the second one to ...

This work analyses the profitability of enhancing a macroeconomic framework (Computable General Equilibrium model) using microdata from household surveys and assessing distributional effects on income and consumption induced ...

This dissertation focuses on firms' innovation, diversity and behaviour. The first chapter highlights how the relation between competition and innovation can additionally be shaped by the structure, distribution and ...

This thesis is composed of two main research lines. The first line, developed in chapters 2 to 4, deals with frequentist and Bayesian estimation of regime-switching GARCH models and its application to risk management on ...

This dissertation is divided in three self-contained and single-authored chapters. We analyze, in three different theoretical models, the role of coarse cognition, also defined as categorical rationality, and its consequences ...