This study examines the evolution and impact of Financial Technology (FinTech) within the broader context of the digital transformation that has reshaped contemporary economic and social systems. It highlights how the diffusion of digital technologies—accelerated by the global financial crisis of 2007–2008—has fostered the emergence of innovative financial actors capable of redefining traditional banking, insurance, and investment services. FinTech is interpreted not merely as a technological...
This dissertation examines the evolution and contemporary significance of the principle of transparency within the Italian administrative system and the field of public procurement in the context of ongoing digital transformation. Adopting a methodology that combines historical-legal reconstruction, systematic analysis, and comparative research, the study investigates transparency as a structural principle of administrative action, increasingly shaped by digitalization and the emergence of ar...
This thesis develops a unified analytical framework to assess the sustainability and adequacy of European PAYG pension systems under demographic ageing. By isolating the mechanical effect of population dynamics, it quantifies the decline in financially sustainable pension levels across EU Member States under unchanged legislation. The analysis then maps the pension Reform Space, identifying feasible combinations of retirement age, contribution rates and benefit levels consistent with long-run...
Social clauses represent the main instrument through which the legal system aims to protect certain interests within the framework of public contracts. This instrument, however, is not unique and homogeneous, but is expressed in a plurality of regulatory techniques, to which correspond multiple interests deemed legally relevant and worthy of protection (and promotion), each of which can be traced back to a different model (or a different "generation") of clause. In contrast to the heterogenei...
This thesis analyses the role of environmental diplomacy in the policy of détente between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration (1969–1974). Starting from a historical reconstruction of the evolution of American environmental policy, the study demonstrates how environmental protection was used as a strategic foreign policy tool, serving both to build domestic consensus and to open channels of dialogue with Moscow within a bipolar context. Particular attention ...
This doctoral thesis examines the evolution, legal framework, and practical applications of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Italy, with a particular focus on project finance as a tool for the digitalisation of public administration. The research is situated within the broader context of Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), which has placed digital transformation at the centre of post-pandemic recovery efforts.
The first chapter traces the regulatory development of PPP...
The Poetry and Civic Engagement of Alfonso Gatto: 1943–1947. Editorial and Journalistic Activity and the Critical Edition of Il capo sulla neve. Liriche della Resistenza.
The central focus of this thesis is the first collection of civic poetry by Alfonso Gatto, Il capo sulla neve. Liriche della Resistenza (Quaderni di «Milano-sera», 1947).
The study begins by examining Gatto’s theoretical prose writings in order to identify elements of his poetics that justify his turn toward a form of po...
This doctoral thesis examines the Third Sector as a complex and evolving legal phenomenon situated in the intermediate sphere between State and market, and as an institutional expression of the constitutional principle of social solidarity. Acknowledging the historical difficulty of subsuming a spontaneous and pluralistic social experience within rigid legal categories, the research offers a critical reconstruction of the notion of the non-profit sector in light of both international scholarl...
This research project examines the intricate network of relationships between language, power dynamics, and processes of identity formation within the geopolitical context that emerged in the postcolonial era, focusing its analysis on the narrative production of Abdulrazak Gurnah and Tanzania, his homeland. Through historical investigation, sociolinguistic analysis, and literary criticism, it highlights how the English language functions both as an instrument of colonial hegemony and as a mea...
Technological advancement can open new possibilities for organizations, but whether and how these translate into organizational effects depends on how they are made visible, evaluated, and prioritized. Organizations do not engage in this process neutrally. Instead, they rely on familiar categories, established routines, and inherited metrics shaped by prior experience, which function as cognitive filters through which new developments are assessed. Under stable conditions, this form of cognit...