The article focuses on the Italian financial system, proposing an analysis of the relational structure among listed financial companies and its evolution in recent years. In order to detect this structure, we investigate a specific kind of interorganizational tie, emerging when members of a...

We obtain a recursive formulation for a general class of contracting problems involving incentive constraints. These constraints make the corresponding maximization (sup) problems non recursive. Our approach consists of studying a recursive Lagrangian. Under standard general conditions, there is...

This paper tests an idea from relational contracting theory [Macauley (1963); North (1990); Greif (1994); Kranton (1996)] that informal relationships can substitute for formal contract enforcement through the judicial system, from the analysis of a new survey of the surgical instrument cluster...