This paper, published in 'The Energy Journal', investigates the existence and magnitude of consumers switching costs – namely, time-based and cognitive-based costs on consumers changing providers – in the Italian residential electricity market. Such costs may lead to consumer inertia in making
How does the stability of full and partial cartels depend on the capacity constraint of a small firm (or a fringe of small firms)? In their recent publication in "Oxford Economic Papers", Leonardo Madio, (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua) and Aldo Pignataro (Italian
The rules governing disability insurance programs have changed considerably in the recent decades in most OECD countries with a remarkable shift towards policies aimed at re-integrating people experiencing a disability insurance episode into the labor market.In her recent publication in the Review
In their recent publication in the Scandinavian Journal of Management, Andrea Furlan and Roberto Grandinetti from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova, and Francesco Rentocchini from the University of Milan, study routines mobility in major football championships.
In this paper, Thanh Doan (Office of Communications, UK), Fabio M. Manenti (Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova) and Franco Mariuzzo (University of East Anglia), study the impact of mobile application quality in the tablet PC market. The market is characterized by the
