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 ...

The first chapter investigates how social participation of young children is affected by ethnic diversity. We find that segregation have a non negative effect on social participation, while fractionalization have a non ...

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 dissertation is a collection of three essays. The first essay is a survey of relevant literature that aims at responding to two research questions: (1) is agent-based modelling an appropriate methodology to study ...

Nella presente tesi discutiamo gli effetti delle asimmetrie informative sui prezzi degli asset e sull’acquisizione di informazione nei mercati finanziari. Nel Capitolo 1 studiamo come una "bolla" possa emergere in un ...

Today, business intelligence (BI) systems have become a critical foundation for several organizations. BI systems have consistently been ranked among the top most priority of CIOs due to their ability to transform huge ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the effectiveness of revenue management (RM) techniques in nonprofit performing arts organizations, although these organizations are characterized by multiple and conflicting ...

The first chapter provides a theoretical contribution in the field of social welfare measurement and social choice over social mobility matters. In the second chapter I develop an experimental questionnaire aiming at ...

The thesis is composed of three chapters that analyse the influence of different socio-economic factors on health in the prism of life-course approach, which considers health to be a stock of capital that depreciates with ...