Immigration: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation between psychology and economics
A central theme in economics is that individuals respond to incentives that promote their commitment and performance. The “principal-agent paradigm” focuses on the incentives necessary to ensure that the agent is...
Immigrazione: motivazione intrinseca ed estrinseca tra psicologia ed economia
Un tema centrale dell’economia è che gli individui rispondono ad incentivi che ne promuovono l’impegno e la performance. Il paradigma del “principale-agente” si concentra sugli incentivi necessari affinché l’agente sia...
Saudi Aramco abandons the WTI
Saudi Aramco, Saudia Arabia’s national oil company and the largest exporter of oil in the world, has decided to abandon the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark price for its exports of crude oil to the United...
Economics – lessons
In this lecture a definition of Economics will be introduced. We will also talk about the Economic Circuit, the difference between Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and the Production Possibility Frontier. Definition...
Disavanzo e debito pubblico dopo le disposizioni del Trattato di Maastricht
Oggetto di questo lavoro è mostrare quali siano stati gli andamenti di disavanzo e debito pubblico all’interno dell’area euro, alla luce delle disposizioni presenti nel Trattato di Maastricht (G.U. n. 277...
The Italian pension system and its future reforms
Abstract “Italy is characterized by a mature pay-as-you-go social security system and by particularly adverse population projections” (Forni and Giordano, 2001). This sentence effectively describes the main features of...