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...

Il lavoro propone una raccolta organica di dati statistici relativi agli spostamenti internazionali di viaggiatori da e verso stati europei e, in particolare, stati aderenti all'Unione Europea. Sulla base della sistematizzazione concettuale delle informazioni attualmente disponibili da varie...

In the complex frame of the EU agriculture politics, a particular relevant aspect is given by the new regulation on durum wheat production and diffusion incentives. These subsidies are assigned according to a particular indicator (Quality Global Index - QGI), built up through a weighted mean of...

In this paper we consider financial time series from U.S. Fixed Income Market, S&P500, DJ Eurostoxx 50, Dow Jones,Mibtel and Nikkei 225. It is well known that financial time series reveal some anomalies regarding the EfficientMarketHypothesis and some scaling behaviour, such as fat tails and...

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...

The new Italian regulation for the distribution of the Ordinary Financing “public” Fund (FFO) is included in the framework of the reformation of the University System financing politics. A part of the FFO is bound by a specific merit rating performed by the C.N.V.S.U. (forthcoming...