<i> Il problema dell'acqua: privatizzazione e sostenibilità </i> (di Flavio Delbono, Diego Lanzi) - ABSTRACT: The Water Problem is a worldwide crucial policy issue for local and national governments. As several international experiences have largely testified, water's strategic role in economic and...

<em>Gender Auditing e Approccio delle Capacità: Teoria e Metodologia</em> - In this paper we propose a model of Gender Auditing (GA) inspired by Amartya Sen’s capability approach. The methodological and normative assumptions and features of the model are outlined in order to list the relevant...

<i> Regolamentazione dell’accesso nei settori a rete: la tariffazione delle essential facilitiesin Italia </i> (di Matteo Carassiti eDiego Lanzi) - ABSTRACT: In this essay we analyse how Italian regulatory bodies have applied in network industries economic theory insights about access conditions to...

<i> Intranet, comunicazione culturale e politica industriale </i> (di Diego Lanzi) - ABSTRACT: Organizing an Intranet for cultural communication firms can improve their performances sharing among them services’ cost, inducing joint projects and innovations. Hence an industrial policy, aimed to induce...

In this paper we study duopolistic competition between closed and open source software. Inspired by recent contributions on open source, we propose a two-stage game with perfect information and product differentiation, in which producers first set software quality and then determine prices (the...

Seeing network resources as a public good involves to mantain open and shared access to them for any user. Nevertheless, these conditions may be really difficult to achieve in presence of well-endowed users with heavy data flows. Our purpose here is to provide a two stage game form for managing...