The paper investigates the relationship, surprisingly often forgotten by the literature, between firms' language skills and their international performances. After having contextualized the concept of language within the broader concept of culture, the paper introduces language's characteristics...

Alpine fruit farms usually ensure their production against hail risk; more rarely prevent the damage by using anti-hail nets. To explain the choice between the two alternatives for defence of fruit production against the hail risk, insurance and anti hail-nets, was developed a model that...