La tesi propone l'edizione critica della partitura e del libretto della Faniska di Luigi Cherubini, cercando di ricostruirne la genesi, il contesto storico-culturale in cui fu composta e i significati della rappresentazione ...

II tema della libertà e quello della dipendenza sono legati alle condizioni matenali ed alle situazioni concrete nelle quali l'individuo vive. Attraverso lo studio di tre casi specifici (quello visigoto, quello franco e ...

Il presente lavoro si suddivide sostanzialmente in tre nuclei. Il primo capitolo indaga il così detto "distretto" dell'arte contemporanea veneziana e lo confronta con le più aggiornate teorie di valorizzazione del patrimonio ...

La ricerca si propone di ricostruire l'articolato profilo intellettuale e politico di un esponente dell'élite liberale, il veneziano Pompeo Gherardo Molmenti (1852-1928). Si apre con gli anni della formazione giovanile, ...

La tesi delinea una ricostruzione storica dell'Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia dal 1968 al 1997, ovvero dalla Biennale della contestazione alla XLVII edizione della rassegna veneziana, curata da Germano ...

"Essays in contextualising theories: a work in progress" è il lavoro di sintesi sulla mia pratica antropologica, strutturata attorno al fieldwork condotto in Siria nel 2010, occasione per un’articolata teorizzazione di ...

Characteristics of the economy such as the share of polluting sectors, and their pollution intensity are key to understanding how to limit costs of climate policies. In particular, this thesis focuses on four different ...

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 ...

This thesis presents three essays on decision making by autistic individuals. In the first chapter we draw on the studies germane to decision making and autism to provide an extensive review focused on such crucial aspects ...

The first paper examines the role of High Frequency Traders (HFTs) as Designated Market Makers. I examine the liquidity provision, the trading behavior and the risk of being picked-off by other traders. I find that HFT ...

Recent literature of industry dynamics has considered productivity as one of the main source of firm heterogeneity that determines firm performance and growth. The goal of the first chapter on my thesis is to consider ...

The purpose of the dissertation is to shed light on the iterative nature of management earnings forecasts characteristics by means of a new measure of consistency and to provide empirical evidence on both the cross-sectional ...

In questa tesi studiamo alcuni problemi legati a modelli Markov Switching (MS) e alle loro applicazioni in Economia e Finanza. Lo scopo del nostro studio è proporre soluzioni per la selezione del modello e per la stima di ...

The thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter we study a communicationgame played by three agents with conflicting and state independent preferences. Each possible outcome of the game uniquely corresponds to ...

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the real effects of tax avoidance. I survey three main areas of the literature: (1) capital structure choices, (2) investments and cash holdings, (3) investors’ valuation. In ...

The overall motivation of this research is to understand the adoption of sustainable innovations and sustainable behavior, with a focus on sustainable mobility-related behaviors. Contrary to the organizational adoption, ...

This dissertation consists of three independent essays that explore the non-monetary aspects on the cooperative behaviours. In the first essay, I analyse the effect of social interaction on the decision to contribute to ...