Nota del director

Reflexiones del Director / From the Director Information — a bridge over the divide 1

1 Remarks made to participants at the V Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS V), Havana, Cuba, 24 April 2001. It has been three years since we met in San José, Costa Rica, at the Fourth Pan American Congress on Health Sciences Information, and I have had many opportunities to reflect on the meaning of the Declaration you made there and its relevance to the Pan American Health...

Nota Di Lavoro 117 . 2010

We consider a multimarket framework where a set of firms compete on two interrelated oligopolistic markets. Prior to competing in these markets, firms can spy on others in order to increase the quality of their product. We characterize the equilibrium espionage networks and networks that maximize social welfare under the most interesting scenario of diseconomies of scope. We find that in some s...

Nota Di Lavoro 16 . 2009

This paper addresses two hot topics of the contemporary debate, social capital and economic growth. Our theoretical analysis sheds light on decisive but so far neglected issues: how does social capital accumulate over time? Which is the relationship between social capital, technical progress and economic growth in the long run? The analysis shows that the economy may be attracted by alternative...

Deputy Director

A Comparison of NoTA and GENESYS

The trend of converging application domains in the field of embedded systems has been observable during the last years. For instance multimedia systems have entered the automotive domain and interfaces to the Internet are included in many embedded control applications. In the last years, undertakings to tackle the challenges introduced by this digital convergence have been started by the Europe...