This paper elaborates a Spatial Autoregressive and Spatial Error Model (SAR-SE Model) to investigate the Italian house price dynamics. House prices in real terms have been modelled for the period 1995-2008 in all the 103 Italian provinces along with affordability ratio, persistency term, some...

Recently housing markets have played a crucial role in macroeconomic developments. Optimistic housing markets have contributed to sustained economic activity in most OECD countries during the first years of the 2000s. Nevertheless many markets overheated and the collapse of the US subprime...

Although the connection between crime and urban layout is generally evident, surveys inquiring that relationship are often facing two different problems: areas with high criminality are often inhabited by partially elusive populations (being stowaways) and the urban structure (e.g. length and...

Emergency Department (ED) activity involves a consistent absorption of resources varying from medical staff to laundry services. Moving from the consideration that staff cost is the most relevant item among those reported in the ED balance sheet, we have conducted a statistical survey in one of...

The main techniques used for the spatial analysis of Urban Crime can generally be traced to crime mapping techniques, which are mere representations of crime dispersion over a specific urban area without any statistical modeling of its correlation with the urban structure of the city or any...

L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è introdurre un’analisi dell’impatto che l’assetto proprietario, la struttura finanziaria, la dimensione del mercato e la strategia di business hanno sull’efficienza tecnica delle utilities italiane operanti nel settore idrico. Recente- mente la...

In the recent past, expectations concerning universities have emphasised their active role in enhancing economic and regional development. The universities in geographical areas suffering from structural problems are particularly required to play this role. Moreover, the correlation between the...