The paper offers a subjectivist approach to economic growth and an institutional view of development. In particular, the term development regards the prevailing rules of the game and their effects on the key variables for economic activity to take off: property rights and productive...

The plausibility of catching-up with Western Europe by six East European countries is assessed by examining a hypothetical growth scenario. Per capita GDP in Western Europe is chosen as an adequate benchmark. The requirements for convergence are then examined, with particular reference to...

We use a simple model to analyze the funding stage of new firms and characterize the directional causality between the ir capital structure and the length of prior working experience that entrepreneurs possess. In this light, we test a set of predictions by considering a sample of firms founded...

We use a simple model to analyze the founding stage of new firms. Our goal is to characterize the directional causality between the expected rewards from entrepreneurship and the length of prior labor market experience that entrepreneurs possess. We test predictions about the timing of the...

The principles underlying evolutionary psychology suggest an approach to Law and Economics that tends to reject top-down policy making and encourages a bottom-up stance, whereby rules lead to behavioral routines that are consistent with individuals’ shared psychological patterns. The view...

L'articolo esamina gli effetti redistributivi della dinamica dei prezzi e le conseguenze espansive/recessive che questa può avere sulla congiuntura. Si richiama l'attenzione sul ruolo del contesto istituzionale (concorrenza e regolamentazione) e sui costi di aggiustamento che ne seguono. Si...