87 research outputs found
Giochi parodici nella produzione boiardesca
No full textOne of the ways in which Matteo Maria Boiardo made his readers smile – not the most frequent in quantitative terms, but nevertheless present with greater continuity throughout his production – was by quoting and parodying certain excerpts from classical and vernacular authors. This paper will focus on these passages, questioning the contexts and mean- ings of such references: which authors did he recall? How do their vers- es fit into Boiardo’s text? What does their inversion mean? The article aims to observe one of the most important strategies by which the complicity between the author and his audience is expressed: in a non- explicit, cultivated and refined form
Orizzonti mantovani. Spunti e dinamiche paesaggistiche ne L'Illustrissimo di Alberto Cantoni
No full textIn the literary production of Alberto Cantoni, short story writer and novelist between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the novel L'Illustrissimo is highly important both because it is the last publication of the author, from Pomponesco, a small town a few kilometers south of Mantua, both because it summarizes in a single text the different nuances and different directions that his writing has taken over the course of his literary career, also due to a writing and processing time that embraces the entire span of years of his career itself. In the foreground, in addition to the numerous and brilliant characters, one of the protagonists is the Mantuan landscape which, not a simple background, becomes a true literary parameter which in different and significant ways affects the purposes and mechanisms of the novel
Deductible or Co-Insurance: Which is the Better Insurance Contract under Adverse Selection?
No full textThe standard solution to adverse selection is the separating equilibrium introduced by Rothschild and Stiglitz. Usually, the Rothschild-Stiglitz argument is developed in a model that allows for two states of the world only. In this paper adverse selection is dis-cussed for continuous loss distributions. This gives rise to the new problem of finding the proper form of an insurance contract to impose partial insurance of the low risks. This paper contributes to the discussion on optimal insurance. It analyzes two basic forms of insurance contracts: A contract with a deductible and a contract imposing a positive co-insurance rate. Since high risks can always self-reveal themselves as high risks and buy the optimal insurance contract at high risks’ premiums the Pareto-superior insurance contract is the one that leaves the low risks with higher expected utility while deterring high risks from joining the contract that is designed for low risks. The deductible contract turns out to be superior if premiums contain a sufficiently high loading.Insurance, Adverse Selection, Deductible, Co-Insurance
Pirandello e la persuasione. Note su Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
No full textThis essay analyses the relationship between author and character in Luigi
Pirandello’s work, with particular reference to Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore. It goes
through concepts such as purity, destiny, god of the work and finally persuasion in
Michelstaedter’s interpretatio
Reflecting on the Evidence: A Reply to Knight, McShane, et al. (2020)
No full textKnight, McShane, et al. (2020) report three experiments on testosterone’s effect on the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT). The experiments were designed and executed independently of each other and of our previous work (Nave, Nadler, Zava & Camerer, 2017). We thank Knight, McShane, et al. for conducting these experiments and summarizing their results, and we agree that one experiment is obviously not enough for establishing an empirical fact.
The individual experiments and their meta-analytic summary are consistent with both the null hypothesis and Nave et al.’s conclusions (see Table S6 in Knight, McShane, et al.’s Supplemental Material), and there is evidence for variation in effects across experiments. In what follows, we reflect on design differences among the experiments and the collective evidence that their data contain
Le ottave 'esotiche' del "Ciriffo Calvaneo". Un «viaggio ai confini ultimi della lingua»
No full textIn the fourth part of the Ciriffo calvaneo, a chivalric poem composed by the Pulci brothers in the 1470s, two octaves are written in ‘Oriental’ languages, in order to reproduce the conversation between Aleandrina, princess of Troy, and Tibaldo, king of the Moors. As already shown by Cardona, Aleandrina’s speech is in Turkish and represents one of the earliest records of this language in Western literature. On the contrary, Tibaldo’s reply is not in Arabic, as claimed by the author (probably Luigi Pulci), and is instead a very well-conceived parody of Semitic, mixing real Arabic words with Arabic-shaped nonsense sequences, Hebrew, Greek and even Italian terms
Optimal Insurance Contracts without the Non-Negativity Constraint on Indemnities Revisited
No full textIn the literature on optimal indemnity schedules, indemnities are usually restricted to be non-negative. Gollier (1987) shows that this constraint might well bind: insured could get higher expected utility if insurance contracts would allow payments from the insured to the insurer at some losses. However, due to the insurers’ cost function Gollier supposes, the optimal insurance contract he derives underestimates the relevance of the non-negativity constraint on indemnities. This paper extends Gollier’s findings by allowing for negative indemnity payments for a broader class of insurers’ cost functions.Insurance, Indemnity, Deductible, Co-Insurance
‹‹Una scherma amorosa››: Bufalino e il lettore
No full textIl saggio indaga le modalità con cui Bufalino indirizza e controlla a distanza il processo di lettura delle proprie opere, Congegnando un intrigante gioco di specchi, di rifrazioni e di mise en abyme, l’autore inserisce all’interno della narrazione episodi e apologhi allegorici, che compendiano in sé l’intero senso del racconto e mettono in scene figure di lettori. L’attenzione del lettore, messa in allerta dalle spie disseminate a bella posta nel testo, è convogliata spesso su una traiettoria per certi versi ‘obbligata’: muovendo dagli indizi predisposti con avvedutezza dal narratore l’interpretazione si concentra giocoforza su certi nodi significativi, mettendo da parte gli altri, eventuali spunti percorribili.The essay investigates the ways in which Bufalino directs and remotely controls the process of reading his own works. By assigning an intriguing game of mirrors, refractions and mise en abyme, the author inserts allegorical episodes and apologues into the narration, that summarize in themselves the whole sense of the story and bring together figures of readers. The attention of the reader, put on alert by the spies disseminated in the text, is often conveyed on a trajectory in some ways 'obliged': moving from the clues predisposed with shrewdness by the narrator the interpretation is concentrated on certain significant nodes, setting aside the others, any possible hints
How Much Internalization of Nuclear Risk Through Liability Insurance?
No full textAn important source of conflict surrounding nuclear energy is that with a very small probability, a large-scale nuclear accident may occur. One way to internalize the financial risks associated with such an accident is through mandatory liability insurance. This paper presents estimates of the willingness to pay for increased financial security provided by an extension of coverage, based on the `stated choice' approach. A Swiss citizen with median characteristics may be willing to pay 0.08 cents per kwh to increase coverage beyond the current CHF 0.7 bn. (US 2.7 bn.). An extension of nuclear liability insurance coverage therefore may be effciency-enhancing.risk, nuclear energy, liability insurance, internalization
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