In order to fully understand Syrah wine market in Italy both supply and demand need to be studied. While supply is analyzed with the simple (benchmarking) comparison of the descriptive statistics between Syrah Italian wines and other high quality red Italian wines, the demand is studied...

"Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" (A.O. Hirschman 1970) is a theoretical concept derived from the work of Albert O. Hirschman (1970) which is focused on two essential options in organizatios and products decline, being "exit" and "voice".The basis concept is as follows: members of an organization,...

Introduzione – 1. L’economia dell’informazione – 2. Signaling e ciclismo professionistico – 3. La classifica UCI: impostazione ed effetti – 4. Il passaggio al Pro-Tour – Conclusioni

We assemble an original panel of 2,500 restaurant prices in Italy over the period 1998-2004 to study whether, and through which channels, the introduction of euro coins and banknotes had an impact on individual pricing behaviour. We reach three conclusions. Firstly, the evidence suggest that the...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance and outline a profile of the medium and medium-large size italian multinational firms. The work concentrates specifically on industrial multinational firms of “fourth capitalism” - that is the set of the medium and medium-large...

The rate of technical change that is characterising both the telecommunications and the computer industry has been a major driver of the evolution of a close and stable system into an open and dynamic one. The introduction of a cluster of new technologies has originated significant changes...

This paper investigates the effects of the increasing activity of foreign banks in Italy, distinguishing between credit granted to households and firms. Foreign banks display a differentiated degree of business expansion across the provinces, we exploit this variability to measure how foreign...

Introduzione – 1. Il quadro istituzionale della vendita dei diritti televisivi del calcio in Europa – 2. Il modello teorico – 3. La decisione di investimento nel caso di vendita individuale – 3.1 Vendita decentralizzata – 3.2 Vendita centralizzata – 4. L’analisi comparata dei due...

Negli ultimi vent'anni gli avanzamenti della letteratura riguardo le esternalità di rete sono stati notevoli, d'altra parte essi mancano di uniformità e omogeneità. L'obiettivo di questo articolo è quello di verificare le congruenze di tali concetti presentandoli in maniera congiunta e...

Italian Abstract: Note sui modelli classici di strategie di differenziazione orizzontale del prodotto con costi di trasporto lineari Hotelling (1929) e quadratici D'Aspremont, Gabsewicz e Thisse (1979). Vengono studiati i risultati dovuti ad imprese con funzioni di costo diverse. Segue una...