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 dissertation studies the behaviour of traders under different market designs. The setup of a market contains the information available to traders, the decisions traders have to make and the trading mechanism. We have ...

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 ...