Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: S?bastien Charles Title: Debt and Profit Rate: A Heterodox Model of Financial Instability Abstract: Debt and Profit Rate: A Heterodox Model of Financial Instability ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to extend the Minskyan tradition of financial instability to the scope of a Cambridgian model with a quasi-complete saving function. First, we show that an important part of Minskyan contributions suffer from the lack of attention towards a complete analysis of agents? saving behaviours. Second, we propose a dynamic model which takes these remarks into account and introduces explicitly the demand of investment goods, trying thus to generalize some more recent heterodox contributions. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:5-19 Volume: 2006/90 Year: 2006 Issue:90 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=30636&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/Ste2006-090001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katia Caldari Author-Name: Maurizio Mistri Title: Towards an evolutionary approach to marshall's reciprocal offer and demand curves Abstract: Towards an Evolutionary Approach to Marshall?s Reciprocal Offer and Demand Curves ABSTRACT: In this article, the authors revisit Marshall?s curves of mutual supply and demand from an evolutionary standpoint. After discussing the relationships between the neoclassical approach (in its more general sense) and the Marshallian approach, the authors claim that Marshall?s position was essentially evolutionary and that this methodological stance is clearly evident in his theory on international trade. In particular, Marshall?s treatment of mutual supply and demand curves shows that what he had in mind was actually far removed from the scheme of things in which current academic tradition has incorporated the mutual supply and demand curves. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:21-41 Volume: 2006/90 Year: 2006 Issue:90 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=30637&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/Ste2006-090002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Pench Title: Excess Burden: an ill defined concept? Abstract: Excess Burden: An Ill Defined Concept? ABSTRACT: The number and differences among alternative definitions of excess burden proposed in the literature, from seminal contributions by Marshall and Barone to the latest survey in the Handbook of Public Economics, stimulated the present paper where some of them are critically reviewed together with their ambiguities. Since its birth two notions of excess burden are available: an absolute notion (the excess burden of a single tax) and a relative one (the excess burden of a tax versus another): though distinct their differences blurred during years. The central thesis of this paper is that for excess burden to be a fruitful tool of analysis it should be interpreted as an intrinsically relative concept and the only way to avoid ambiguities in its interpretation is to define it in terms of either larger welfare loss of two equal yield taxes or tax structures or smaller revenue at a common final utility level. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:43-57 Volume: 2006/90 Year: 2006 Issue:90 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=30638&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/Ste2006-090003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Alessandra Antonelli Title: L'attivit? di ricerca e sviluppo delle imprese e il sostegno pubblico: il caso italiano Abstract: Firms? Research and Development Activity and the Public Support: The Italian Case ABSTRACT: In the Lisbon strategy, Member States committed to making structural reforms to their economies. Within this context, the European Council called for R&D investment to approach 3% of GDP by 2010, of which 2% should come from the private sector. At the moment, in Italy R&D investment represents 1,2% of GDP, of which about 50% comes from the private sector. The Financial Law 2007 modifies the italian support system to R&D introducing tax credit for R&S in the period 2007-2009. The paper analyzes the effects of this tax credit. In particular, we calculate that at 2009 private investment in R&D approach to 0,88% of GDP. Therefore, it is necessary to go one step further. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:59-79 Volume: 2006/90 Year: 2006 Issue:90 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=30639&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/Ste2006-090004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paolo Pertile Title: Technology adoption, quality and health care costs: a review of the literature Abstract: Technology Adoption, Quality and Health Care Costs: A Review of the Literature ABSTRACT: This paper provides a review of the literature that has investigated the mechanisms underlying the diffusion of new health care technologies and its implications. The importance of regulation and of the intensity of competitive pressures associated with each possible regulatory solution have been confirmed both theoretically and empirically. Nonetheless, the lack of consistency among the results of different studies, observed in some cases, may suggest that more work is needed. Moreover, the specific characteristics of different diseases and of the corresponding technologies may play an important role as well. Specific sections are included in the paper to review contributions that address two issues that have probably received less attention than they deserve: the welfare implications of the diffusion of new medical technologies and the timing of adoption. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:81-107 Volume: 2006/90 Year: 2006 Issue:90 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=30640&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/Ste2006-090005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: n.d. Title: Recensioni Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:109-125 Volume: 2006/90 Year: 2006 Issue:90 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=30641&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:steste:v:html10.3280/Ste2006-090006 Number: 6