Lo studio teorico ed empirico delle determinanti delle scelte individuali in condizione di incertezza uno dei temi pi affascinanti e pi irrisolti in economia e le sue implicazioni sono assai rilevanti in quanto riguardano la maggioranza delle nostre decisioni. Assai numerose sono nella realtˆ...

A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...

Economic convergence at the sub-national level could have spatially explicit manifestations reflecting convergence clubs and other forms of geographical clustering that are not captured by an overall inequality measure. By decomposing the Theil index of per capita income inequality into between...

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different weighting schemes on the indicator's construction could...

The present paper builds on Arrighetti e Curatolo, 2009, 2010 by introducing heterogeneous opportunists into an agent-based simulated world populated by heterogeneous loyal agents playing a repeated coordination game. On average, opportunistic exploitation of economic resources lowers...

Tra i metodi di stima puntuale della riserva sinistri nell’assicurazione danni `e largamente utilizzato, in particolare dalle compagnie italiane, un approccio noto come “metodo di Fisher- Lange” (FL). L’FL `e un metodo “a costi medi”, nel senso che la valutazione degli impegni di...

In the real world, many social and economic interactions are highly affected by coordination problems. These, in turn, emerge from the trial to dynamically organize strategies of collective action in complex contexts where agents and groups are heterogeneous and information is only imperfectly...

Given a set of continuous variables with missing data, we prove in this paper that the iterative application of a simple “least-squares estimation/multivariate normal simulation” procedure produces an efficient parameters estimator. There are two main assumptions behind our proof: (1) the...

Italian Abstract: Presentiamo un modello stocastico multivariato, per sviluppare stress test finalizzati a valutare l'adeguatezza patrimoniale delle banche e il loro grado di fragilità finanziaria. L'articolo fornisce una descrizione teorica del metodo e delle caratteristiche essenziali del...

Italian Abstract: Questo lavoro presenta gli effetti di due interventi di revisione del sistema italiano di imposte e benefici attuati nel 2022: (i) l’introduzione dell’assegno unico e universale per i figli a carico (AUU), che ha sostituito un sistema frammentato di trasferimenti e...