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Intermediate microeconomics : A modern approach

Modeling customer churn among movers in the finnish insurance market

The new international division of labour has changed the position of industrialised countries in world markets. The delocalisation of production processes and the dispersion of markets impose extensive use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) to enable real-time presence where and when potential demand is expressed. The technological leap to be made concerns not only production but also forecasting and managing demand as well as flexibility in relationships with suppliers and customers. ICTs, in this scenario, to express their full potential, impose an extensive change in firm strategy and management. A firm that uses a network to exchange information, knowledge and communications cannot limit itself to fragments of the process but must include all human, technological and financial resources in this change. This process cannot be left to individuals but must involve the network of relationships that characterise firms and markets. This chapter suggests a role of ICTs as enabling and decisive technologies for the development of an entire production sector until a new economic system is arrived at through successive steps and traditional production activities are abandoned.

ICTs as a condition and as an enabling driver of service science in Italy

Anchoring in the Lead-Time Time Trade-Off : does the “Starting-point” influence preference elicitation?

This study explores the impact of government intervention on the evolution of cooperation using a popular framework for understanding cooperative behavior (the public goods game). Agents either contribute to the production of a shared public good or free-ride on the efforts of others. This game traditionally results in mass free-riding (a sub-optimal outcome), in which case a government can intercede by levying taxes and providing the public good to increase welfare. Is this still the case when looking at an evolutionary framework with natural selection? Theoretical results suggest that the government “levels the playing field”, allowing cooperative and uncooperative behavior to coexist longer than it ordinarily would, but it cannot change the course of evolution.

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Intermediate microeconomics : A modern approach

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Modeling customer churn among movers in the finnish insurance market

ICTs as a condition and as an enabling driver of service science in Italy

Anchoring in the Lead-Time Time Trade-Off : does the “Starting-point” influence preference elicitation?

The Evolution of Pro-Social Behavior and the Role of the Government

Introduction to Game Theory: Credibility and Bargaining

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