Francesca Barigozzi

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated banks' corporate social responsibility and found that if the expected profitability of ethical projects is sufficiently close to that of standard ones and/or the premium for successful interaction of motivated borrowers is sufficiently high, ethical banks are active, both sectors of the credit market exist and the whole market is fully segmented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the theory of advertising as a quality signal using a model where an entrant can choose to advertise by comparing its product to that of an established incumbent, empowers the latter to file for court intervention if it believes the comparison to be false or misleading.

TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to study (adverse) selection in a labor supply model where potential applicants are characterized by different vocational levels and skills and identify conditions in which a wage increase reduces the average productivity and/or average vocation of active workers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the theory of advertising as a quality signal using a model where an entrant can choose to advertise by comparing its product to that of an established incumbent.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the signaling value of a tax when agents are less informed than the government on the effect of their consumption, and the policy making process is analyzed as a game in which the government wants to influence consumers' behaviors through tax policy.