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Smart Cities, Urban Transportation and Air Quality: A Decade of Literature on Italian Largest Cities
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Traffic congestion and its associated negative impacts on economic performance and environmental sustainability, particularly air quality, have long plagued urban centers. This article reviews the technologies and policies adopted by major Italian cities to address these issues, focusing on interventions from 2014 to 2024. Through a keyword co‐
Vittoria Iannuzzi, Matteo Migheli
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Engineering ReportsProcess simulation is a powerful tool in the Process Systems Engineering (PSE) field, in particular for optimization tasks. However, the computational times involved in these activities may become prohibitive for complex processes.
Luis Felipe Sánchez +2 more
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Social Interaction in Patients'�Hospital Choice: Evidences from Italy [PDF]
In this paper we study the influence of social interaction on patients' hospital choice and its relationship with quality delivered by hospitals, using Italian data.
Moscone, Francesco +2 more
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Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 403-428, March 2025.ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to exploit an innovative spatial econometric approach to map and study the evolving patterns of industrial districts (IDs). The procedure can be classified as a k‐means cluster‐wise regression procedure and is designed to detect homogeneous areas of subcontracting activity.
Jacopo Canello +3 more
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni +2 more
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GEOmedia, 2010 Lombardy Geoportal Region Lombardy is setting up the regional SDI in the INSPIRE perspective, involving both local Public Administrations and the private sector in the process of disseminating and sharing the geographic data and services available in ...
Donata Del Puppo, Marco Panebianco
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The quality of the Catalan and Spanish education systems: A perspective from PISA [PDF]
For Catalonia and Spain, public perception is that the PISA reports show that their education systems are underperforming. The goal of this chapter is to quantify how much of the Catalan and Spanish PISA score can be attributed to the education levels of
Ciccone, Antonio, Garcia-Fontes, Walter
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Administrative restructuring is an organizational phenomenon suggested to improve under‐represented groups' managerial representation by disrupting networks and institutions. However, extant tests of a ‘disruption hypothesis’ are collectively inconclusive. We elaborate and test it with a qualitative‐to‐quantitative study of local health agency
Rebecca A. E. Kirley, Carlotta Varriale
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Dynamic macroeconomic effects of public capital: evidence from regional Italian data [PDF]
This paper assesses the effects of public capital in Italy on the main macroeconomic aggregates: GDP, private capital and labour. A cointegrated vector autoregressive (VAR) model, in line with recent advancements in the field, allows us to take into ...
Giacinto Micucci +2 more
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