The purpose of this work is to build a quali-quantitative method for measuring the endogenous performance in R&D organization which supports the process of evaluation. The method is tested on Cnr Institutes of Piemonte, a highly industrialised region in North Western Italy and the score of...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the contributions of Social Identify Theory’s variables to research performance. Regression models were applied on data of ten national research Council (Cnr) institutes of Piemonte, a highly industrialised region in North Western Italy.Results show...

Aim of this paper is to analyse the spatial aspects of technology transfer (t.t.) in Cnr Institutes of Piemonte, a highly industrialised region in North Western Italy. The specific purpose is to verify two hypotheses 1) If the spatial propagation of t.t. follows the Hägerstrand...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro esamina le caratteristiche delle imprese multinazionali italiane e ne confronta la performance con quella delle altre imprese nei quattro anni successivi alla crisi del 2008. La quota di imprese industriali con almeno 20 addetti che operano anche all’estero è in...

Given a set of continuous variables with missing data, we prove in this paper that the iterative application of a simple “least-squares estimation/multivariate normal simulation” procedure produces an efficient parameters estimator. There are two main assumptions behind our proof: (1) the...

This paper analyses the financial and economic conditions of the companies in the portfolios of Italian private equity funds. Information from an ad hoc survey of Italian asset management companies, combined with accounting data for 2008 drawn from the Central Credit Register, is used to develop...

Tra i metodi di stima puntuale della riserva sinistri nell’assicurazione danni `e largamente utilizzato, in particolare dalle compagnie italiane, un approccio noto come “metodo di Fisher- Lange” (FL). L’FL `e un metodo “a costi medi”, nel senso che la valutazione degli impegni di...

English Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on bank risk with a cross-sectional analysis of the bank specific determinants of risk using a new indicator calculated for a sample of 38 Italian banks in the period 2006-2012 and expressed as flow of the amount of new non- performing...

Italian Abstract: L'ampliamento del commercio al dettaglio a livello globale, favorito dalla diffusione delle transazioni via Internet (e-commerce), ha indotto il legislatore europeo a rafforzare i presidi di sicurezza nelle operazioni di pagamento online. Questo lavoro si pone l'obiettivo di...

Financial time series analysis has focused on data related to market trading activity. Next to the modeling of the conditional variance of returns within the GARCH family of models, recent attention has been devoted to other variables: first, and foremost, volatility measured on the basis of...