Background: In the broad scientific debate on the integration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the strategic planning of universities and on the use of monitoring the results of the strategy of the indicators relating to the pursuit of sustainable development goals (SDGs), there is a...

This paper presents an economic design of X control charts with variable sample sizes, variable sampling intervals, and variable control limits. The sample size n, the sampling interval h, and the control limit coefficient k vary between minimum and maximum values, tightening or relaxing the...

This paper discusses the mean stationarity of real exchange rates by using new time series methods and new tests. The question whether the real exchange rates have a unit root or are level reverting is set in the general and flexible framework of fractionally integrated processes. The...

We address G7 banking contagion during the COVID-19 crisis using wavelet-based techniques. We find an increase (20%) of the lowest frequencies banking contagion during the pandemic period based on stronger coherence between all pairs of financial indices. We also find that COVID-19 world cases...

In our first empirical exercise we assess the conditional relationship in the timefrequency domain between the return on Ibovespa and the cases or deaths by COVID-19 in Hubei, countries with record deaths and the world, for the period from January 29 to July 31, 2020. We also perform a...

Cover -- Quartino -- Indice -- Gli Autori -- Introduzione -- Capitolo I - La riqualificazione della spesa pubblica in sede locale: la spending review (Renato Loiero) -- Capitolo II - Alcune riflessioni sul nuovo sistema dei controlli negli enti locali (Alma Fanelli) -- Capitolo III - Evoluzione...

We add to the discussion on the role of debt-to-GDP and inflation on the U.S. real GDP per capita and its growth rate during the period from 1966 to 2022. We use Global Wavelet Power Spectrum, Multivariate Coherency and Partial Coherency, Phase-Difference and Gain. This framework enables us to...

Background: Studies have highlighted how public-private partnerships are characterized by a lack of transparency, low availability of data, low accountability, and, often, strong opportunism. All these factors do not allow potential interested parties to trust it. This undermines the possibility...