The paper sets out to analyze the efficiency of regional health care systems based on the patients’ perception of the quality of the services provided. For the purpose of this study, efficiency is measured as interregional mobility, i.e., the number of a region’s residents that use the...

Il presente lavoro rappresenta un primo tentativo di analizzare in chiave spaziale l’efficienza conseguita a livello di governo locale in Italia, utilizzando un database di nuova costruzione, che comprende i 341 comuni della regione Emilia- Romagna. La metodologia d’analisi si basa su una...

The electronic markets hypothesis (EMH) predicts that the intense intrusion of information technology (IT) into the market system has a strong influence on the degree of market coordination. As transaction costs go down due to inexpensive IT-enabled exchange of information, market-based economic...

Information technology (IT) involve a wide set of risks. Enterprise information systems are a major developing form of information technology involving their own set of risks, thus creating potential blind spots. This paper describes risk management issues involved in enterprise resource...

The direct food subsidy is an important agricultural subsidy policy under current conditions, more efficient than grain price protection policy and other policies, and it is of great importance to the agricultural development, but this policy will not meet the interests of society in the long...

Rationale: This study aims to contribute to settling the lack of consensus regarding the determinants of bank performance, not only by considering bank governance, but also by including factors such as CEO compensation and risk management committee. Previous literature has included bank...