This work remarks the need to carefully evaluate the real importance of each variable used in a multivariate analysis context, with particular regard to cases when an overall performance ranking is the main final purpose. In particular, both a preliminary transformation of variables – aimed at...

Sustainable agriculture is a critical issue globally. Evaluating it is often hindered by the complex, multidimensional nature of agricultural sustainability and the lack of statistical data at individual farm level. Ensuring the sustainability of Italian agriculture is vital for safeguarding...

In this work, the ability of the Dynamic Objectives Aggregation Methods to solve the portfolio rebalancing problem is investigated conducting a computational study on a set of instances based on real data. The portfolio model considers a set of realistic constraints and entails the...

This paper investigates the macro-determinants of growth in Italy in a time series framework, from 1950 till 2004. The analysis of economic growth, started with the Solows (1956) and Swans (1956) famous contributions, has developed rapidly since the mid 1980s. The empirical literature follows...

One of the problems of using the financial options methodolgy to analyse investment decisions is that strategic considerations become extremely important. So, the theory of real option games combines two successful theories, namely real options and game theory. The value of flexibility can be...

This paper shows that linear functions of order statistics (L-statistics) based on random samples have a Fundamental Skew distribution (Arellano-Valle Genton, 2003). The paper also examines the exact distribution of L-statistics when the sampled population is Skew Normal. Exact distributions of...

The main dynamics of capitalism is the creation of overproduction in order to search for an internal and foreign market outlet. While increasing the overproduction, both the expansion process and the internationalization of consumption raise. The context just described leads to think about the...

This paper has a twofold aim: the former is to focus on the concept of well-being/quality of life and its relationships with local sustainable development and the latter is to apply the capability approach at regional level. More specifically, one wants to analyse if sustainable development at a...