While there is widespread consensus that social capital contributes significantly to development outcomes - growth, equity and poverty alleviation - and that it represents a significant determinant of household well-being, the same cannot be said of its measurement criteria. Different strategies...

Le banche dati SCI-WoS e Scopus di proprietà di grosse aziende editoriali permettono di calcolare funzioni bibliometriche, diventate il metro attraverso cui valutare la ricerca scientifica. Gli indicatori citazionali, di proprietà, gratuiti o nati nell’ambito di progetti accademici...

This article focuses on the gender gap in housework and childcare in Italian couples, one of the widest in Europe. Italian women still carry out three-quarters of domestic work and two-thirds of childcare. Following a considerable amount of literature, we focus on three possible theoretical...

Nelle applicazioni finanziarie del metodo Montecarlo e Quasi–Montecarlo, uno dei problemi più comuni è il campionamento da una data distribuzione cumulata. In questo documento, tra i diversi approcci, ci riferiamo al metodo della “Trasformata inversa” e proponiamo un nuovo algoritmo per...

This paper aims to show to what extent self-perceived poverty in Europe is associated with specific household socioeconomic characteristics and particular aspects of household/ community social capital endowment in order to disclose the primary risk factors of family poverty status. Such...

In this work we were interested in investigating the predictive accuracy of one of the most popular learning schemes for the combination of supervised classification methods: the Stacking Technique proposed by Wolpert (1992) and consolidated by Ting and Witten, (1999) and Seewald (2002). In...

In this paper we investigate the foundations of forward guidance in the light of the theory of controllability in a strategic context. The announcement of future suitable policies can facilitate the control of the economic system by the policymaker, where the term 'control' is used in the sense...

In this paper we aim at two targets: i) to look for the theoretical roots of the EMU institutions and to check whether the current economic doctrine still supports them; ii) to discuss the appropriateness of these institutions and the policies adopted by European policymakers in order to exit...

In this paper we study policy reactions to the crisis across the Atlantic, with specific emphasis on its Eastern side. We want to explain the different attitude of European policymakers vis-à-vis their USA homologues and to this end we choose the perspective of the historical roots of European...

The issue of irregular work has been well known in Italy since the early seventies. Undeclared work is a particular facet of shadow economy where employers evade tax typically by underreporting either the numbers of workers or the hours worked or both and, by this mean, they avoid paying the...