Nota editorial N°160 (enero-junio 2021)

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...

EMBL Programme 2017-2021: Digital Biology

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...

Endogenous Network Dynamics NOTA DI LAVORO

In all social and economic interactions, individuals or coalitions choose not only with whom to interact but how to interact, and over time both the structure (the “with whom”) and the strategy (“the how”) of interactions change. Our objectives here are to model the structure and strategy of interactions prevailing at any point in time as a directed network and to address the following open que...