Electronic virtual markets can serve as an alternative tool for collecting information that is spread among numerous experts. This is the principal market functionality from the operators’ point of view. On the other hand it is profits that are the main interest of the market participants....

A method of small-area estimation with a utility function is developed. The utility characterises a policy planned to be implemented in each area, based on the area’s estimate of a key quantity. It is shown that the commonly applied empirical Bayes and composite estimators are inefficient for...

Crime is a social evil for Global world in all facets. Crime is always considered as a social malevolent that is strictly related to individuals' economic, psychological and social background .The first empirical study investigated by Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973) on the relationship between...

According to the UN methodology SDG 7 is assessed by 4 key elements: the share of the country's population with access to electricity; the share of the country's population with access to clean fuels; CO₂ emissions from electricity production; the share of renewable energy sources in the total...

Price elasticities of energy demand have become increasingly relevant in estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of energy policies or of other events with influence on the prices of energy goods. Since the 1970s a large number of academic papers have provided both short and...

A recurrent problem in economic studies based on survey data is to determine whether survey weights should be used or not. We show that weighted estimators are more robust than unweighted ones, but less accurate when unweighted estimators are consistent. In some circumstances, a compatibility...

We conduct a sensitivity analysis of several estimators related to household income, to explore how some details of the definitions of the variables concerned influence the values of the common estimates, such as the mean, median and (poverty) rates. The purpose of this study is to highlight...

An ongoing discussion in strategic management concerns the relative impact of specific strategic decisions on firm performance. In this tradition, this research analyzes the relative impact of business domain choices on firm performance. More specific, the paper at hand (a) discusses a method to...

The list of fixed line telephone numbers, used as sampling frame for CATI surveys on households, suffers of an increasing undercoverage rate. Some methodological studies conducted on ISTAT CATI household surveys have pointed out the risk of biased estimates for particular phenomena of interest...

Because of its main characteristics like intangibility, inseparability, heterogenetiy and perishabilty, it is quite hard to understand describe and measure the service quality of municipalities. However, a number of methods for measuring service quality in the application have been developed in...