Generally investors use heuristics in their process of decision-making with the aim of finding short-cuts and simplified roads to quite sophisticated answers. We conducted a survey on about 250 young people (18-27 years old) concerning their financial literacy and economic choices, given an...

Market features can be considered as forerunners of the European Commission's actions aimed at recognizing collusive behaviours. To identify information that might support the Commission in the exercise of its role of antitrust authority we propose a multi criteria approach. Its focus is on the...

In order to study the problem of detecting an optimal sequence of random audits, this paper is devoted to determine a checking schedule minimizing the expected total cost resulting from the inspections and the possible first failure. This problem is considered in the general case in which the...

The main goal of this research is to analyze Italian tourists' behaviors on the basis of statistical surveys on households, life conditions, incomes, consumptions, travels and vacation. Rough Sets Theory, a Data Mining technique that can easily manage also categorical variables, is suitable for...

Many Bayesian Confirmation Measures have been proposed so far. They are used to assess the degree to which an evidence (or premise) E supports or contradicts an hypothesis (or conclusion) H, making use of prior probability P(H), posterior probability P(H|E) and of probability of evidence P(E)....