In the context of Social Welfare and Choquet integration, we briefly review the classical Gini inequality index for populations of n ≥ 2 individuals, including the associated Lorenz area formula, plus the k-additivity framework for Choquet integration introduced by Grabisch, particularly...

Il lavoro studia la dinamica della produttività di un campione di imprese manifatturiere italiane nel periodo 1995-2006. Il calcolo della produttività è basato sull’indice di Malmquist, calcolato impiegando tecniche non parametriche. La scomposizione dell’indice...

The traditional distinction between profit and non profit firms does not necessarily apply to some types of cooperative firms, such as the Italian mutual cooperative banks (MCBs). These MCBs present a peculiar governance structure, a combination between a public company governance model and a...

In this paper we present an overview of the soft consensus model in group decision making and we investigate the dynamical patterns generated by the fundamental pairwise preference interactions on which the model is based. The dynamical mechanism of the soft consensus model is driven by the...