Sökning: "Giancarlo Spagnolo"
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Giancarlo Spagnolo.
1. Essays on managerial incentives and product-market competition
Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of four self-contained essays primarily concerned with incorporating the objectives of real world top managers, as revealed by the available empirical evidence, in supergame-theoretic analyses of long-term competition between oligopolistic firms. The first essay, "Ownership, Control, and Collusion", considers how the separation between ownership and control affects firms' competitive attitudes when top managers have the preference for smooth profit streams revealed by the evidence on "income smoothing" and when managerial compensation has the low pay-performance sensitivity found in many empirical studies. LÄS MER
2. Slave trades, credit records and strategic reasoning : four essays in microeconomics
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four independent chapters, in which well-known economic theories are employed to investigate, and better understand, data and facts from the real world. Although in fairly distant topics, each paper is an example of how economics, and more precisely microeconomics, offers a rigorous and effective framework to reason about what happens around us. LÄS MER
3. Essays in monetary economics and applied econometrics
Sammanfattning : This dissertation collects five independent essays. The first essay is An Alternative Explanation of the Price Puzzle. The most widely accepted explanation of the price puzzle points to an inadequate performance of the VAR in forecasting inflation. LÄS MER
