This thesis aims to assess whether social safety net policies used in a very poor country can concretely provide relief from poverty in the short run, while encouraging children education in the long run. The economic ...

Inequalities have been the subject of keen economic interest due to ethical and policy implications for the society. In fact, there is wide agreement about the fact that living in a more egalitarian society leads to better ...

Recently, regulatory compliance has become increasingly important in the banking and financial sector. Both the European legislator and the Authorities have imposed on banks and intermediaries a duty to implement an effective ...

The thesis deals with the issue of banking conventions in wortkout agreements aimed at reorganizing the company in crisis. The theme is dealt with throught two interpretations: the bankruptcy law and the contract law, with ...

It is consumers’ perceived power (i.e. sense of power), and not their objective power, that directly triggers psychological and behavioral consequences. Across three experiments, by employing different types of experimental ...

Economists have long recognized that adverse shocks to the nancial sector can have signi cant e ects on the real economy. The chance that nancial instability will lead to macroeconomic instability is often termed ...