Consumers are demonstrating increasing awareness towards initiatives promoting sustainable practices in the food sector. This is particularly pronounced among university students, a segment known for its receptivity to sustainability initiatives. Utilizing a choice experiment, this study...

While public policy guidelines emphasise the need to consider sustainability issues as interconnected, policymakers often focus on specific problem areas. The concept of "policy mix" was introduced to highlight that adopting a single policy instrument is insufficient for effective territorial...

Taking into consideration the Italian manufacturing sector, the main purpose of this paper is to test some predictions arising from models with monopolistic competitive market. In particular, we want to investigate the two following issues. First, to what extent intra-industry trade and...

We present cross and time series analysis of price fluctuations in the U.S. Treasury fixed income market. By means of techniques borrowed from statistical physics we show that the correlation among bonds depends strongly on the maturity and bonds' price increments do not fulfill the random walk...

Forest fires are one of the main factors of environmental degradation, since they cause wildlife destruction, air pollution problems and consistently contribute to the threat of the hydrogeological equilibrium. For this reason, much effort is generally made to avoid their occurrence. Although a...

Among the several aspects concerning the concept of sustainable agriculture, a very important one is related to food security which requires maintaining constant or increasing agricultural productivity over time. Believing that the Albanian agricultural farm structure should be reorganized to...

Nell’ambito della complessa riforma delle politiche di finanziamento del sistema universitario nazionale, si inserisce anche la nuova regolamentazione della ripartizione del Fondo di Finanziamento Ordinario (FFO), che vincola parte della stessa ad una specifica valutazione (ex-post) effettuata...