This study focuses on the technical and economic efficiency achieved in two local public service sectors: pharmaceutical services and integrated waste services. In the first study we also took in account the social dimension of the service as the health corner, the CUP service (e.g. Useful to...

This is a short survey on consumption theory. Consumption is important to both fluctuation and growth. In addition, consumption introduces some important issues involving financial markets and portfolio decisions. We will describe consumption decisions in a dynamic context. Uncertainty about...

This work concerns the maximum flows – minimum cost problem and its main algorithmic solutions. Such a problem involves determining the least cost shipment of a commodity through a capacitated network in order to satisfy demands at certain vertices using supplies available at other vertices....

In questo lavoro si ricava la soluzione centralizzata del modello di Uzawa-Lucas in presenza di esternalità. Attraverso una trasformazione che utilizza il rapporto reddito/capitale fisico e il rapporto consumo/capitale fisico, si ottengono informazioni sulle caratteristiche della transizione,...

The paper investigates the organization of the Italian water sector in the light of the reforms of public utilities. The aim is to examine the degree of implementation of the water sector reform (the so-called Galli Law of 1994) and assess the performance of operators through a study of their...

Italian Abstract: Questa tesi tratta problemi di valutazione delle opzioni cosiddette "reali". La prima parte descrive le due tecniche di valutazione principali (contingent claims analysis e programmazione dinamica stocastica), la seconda parte si concentra sulle opzioni "comuni" (cioè,...

This contribution is an analysis and a comment of the Final Remarks of the Governor of the Bank of Italy and his directions of economic policy for the Italian economy. An economy that has a high unemployment and also supports a public debt that, despite the recent efforts of fiscal...

The Bank of the Euro, that is the European Central Bank, is the topic of this paper, since on January 1999 started the European Monetary Union that introduced a single currency, the euro, which in turn will be managed by the European Central Bank. The paper takes in particular consideration what...

Il fenomeno dell'indebitamento, insolvenza e crisi economica nel capitalismo è interpretato dall'ortodossia economica secondo la logica speculativa. La nostra intenzione, invece, è interpretare il fenomeno dell'indebitamento, insolvenza e crisi economica nel capitalismo secondo la logica...

This paper presents a survey of the literature on the determinants of inter-firm credit and on its implications for the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. Theoretical explanations for trade credit can be divided in two categories: a) theories based on real functions performed by trade...