Negli ultimi venti anni i pagamenti elettronici sono diventati una porzione rilevante delle transazioni finanziarie nel mondo. In alcuni paesi la moneta fisica sta sparendo, mentre carte elettroniche, applicazioni mobile ...

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 ...

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the effect of incomplete and uncertain financial markets on interest rates, namely by studying the impact on the interest rate curve caused by the introduction of some form of ...

Observed evidence shows that economic choices do not reflect what many models predict. Individuals do not perfectly smooth consumption over time, they either consume or save too much. Rational inattention, defined as the ...

This doctoral dissertation consists of three chapters on continuous-time general equilibrium models in macro-finance. Each chapter relates to its peers as they all belong to the literature that studies how financial frictions ...

This Doctoral thesis is divided in three chapters, each corresponding to a self-consistent paper in which, even if with different focus and methodology, the aim is to understand the economics beyond social interactions. ...