: This paper aims at understanding the determinants of Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises competitiveness. Having in mind the fact that the Italian economic system relies substantially on small firms which have managed to stay competitive by adopting strategies such as the creation of...

This paper attempts to underline how the Diagonal Transfer Continuity hypothesis (Baye, Tian and Zhou, 1993) and Better-Reply Security (Reny, 1999) are unconnected between themselves as sucient conditions for stating the existence of Nash equilibria. Besides, various examples and counterexamples...

Scopo del lavoro e' la stima della domanda di edilizia residenziale da parte degli studenti iscritti presso i diversi poli didattici dellUniversita' e del Politecnico di Bari in vista della realizzazione di nuove residenze universitarie. Dopo aver definito i bacini di utenza dei diversi poli...

Combinare insieme piu' mezzi espressivi e' divenuto sempre pi semplice grazie agli sviluppi dell'informatica. I segnali del mondo che ci circonda sono grandezze analogiche, per poter trattare queste grandezze con un elaboratore elettronico e' necessario dapprima convertirle da analogico in...

The relevance of quality and typical food as strength for Rural Local Systems (RLS) is widely recognized in literature (Antonioli Corigliano, 1999; Brunori, 1999; Pacciani et al., 2001; Cecchi, 2002). Generally speaking, the chance of a RLS to build a competitive advantage often depends on the specificities...

In this paper a convergence result for the BBGKY hierarchy to a Boltzmann-like equation, in the case of anelastic collision, is shown. Boltzmann-like equations are often used to model dissipative dynamical systems such as granular media. This convergence result aims to make a contribution...

Aim of this paper is to analyse the equilibrium strategies of two firms investing in a new technology, when the probability of successful implementation is uncertain and market shares are asymmetric. In particular, we are able to consider three key feature of a new technology adoption. First, it...

An algorithm of "Simulated Annealing" for solving scheduling problems is presented. The issues related to scheduling are discussed, together with the Simulated Annealing approximation method and its main parameters (freezing, temperature, cooling, number of neighbourhoods to explore), the...

This paper provides CDS option pricing in a probability setting equipped with a subfiltration structure. The evolution of the defaultable term structure is modelled using the approach developed in Heath et al. (1992) when the spot rate and the forward rate affect the volatility term. The...