In this paper we attempt to identify behavioral differences between public and private not-forprofit hospitals, by using the opportunity of the introduction of the DRG-based payment system in the Italian NHS during the second half of the Nineties. We estimate the technical efficiency of a sample...

The aim of the paper is to analyse some issues of teaching basic Economics in the Italian universities. During this period the university reform is changing the structure and the characteristics of the undergraduate and post graduate curricula but that may or shall require a change in the same...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the asymptotic null distribution of stationarity and nonstationarity tests when the distribution of the error term belongs to the normal domain of attraction of a stable law in any finite sample but the error term is an i.i.d. process with finite...

Colin Clark elaborò un teorema empirico che stabiliva una relazione inversa tra reddito pro capite e occupati nel primario. In questo lavoro abbiamo effettuato una verifica per gli anni 1960, 1970, 1980,1990, 2001. Abbiamo verificato che esiste una relazione tra crescita economica e struttura...

The paper proposes a methodology to measure the characteristics of intermediate products when quality is multidimensional. It uses a general representation of the multioutput technology via directional distance functions and constructs quality indicators based on differences. The quality...

Vengono indagati gli aspetti più peculiari dell'attività sportiva collegandoli con il processo di sviluppo potenzialmente concernente una data zona. In tale contesto, si enfsatizza l'azione esercitabile dalle autorità locali per promuovere e favorire l'espressione sportiva, trainante virtuali...

In this paper we investigate the valuation and optimal timing of the launch of two complementary/substitute products (or projects), one of which is a pilot product. As a first step, we study the problem from a strategic point of view and analyze the ability of the pilot product per se to create...