Hospital Industry Restructuring and Input Substitutability: Evidence from a Sample of Italian Hospitals [PDF]
In this paper we investigate the economic rationality of the bed downsizing process characterising the hospital industry worldwide in the last decades, providing new evidence on the factor substitutability in the production of hospital services.
Davide Vannoni +2 more
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Forecast horizon of 5th – 6th – 7th long wave and short-period of contraction in economic cycles [PDF]
The purpose of this essay is to determine the forecast horizon of the fifth, sixth and seventh long wave. As the period of each long wave can change according to the data, it has been used a deterministic approach, based on historical chronologies of USA
Mario Coccia
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New Tools for the Governance of the Academic Research in Italy: the Role of Research Evaluation [PDF]
Evaluation has been put on the agenda of most Governments as a central process to enhance the public research institutions’ performance (Geuna, 1999, Geuna and Martin, 2003, Shapira and Kuhlman, 2003).
Bianca Poti', Emanuela Reale
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L’Environmental Kuznets Curve nel Settore dei Rifiuti Solidi Urbani [PDF]
This paper provides a specific application of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) theory in order to explain the correlation between income and household waste generation.
Matteo Ferraris
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The footprint of organic farms. Some ecological indicators to evaluate it Department of Food crops – State University of Milan [PDF]
, 2009 Agro-ecological indicators are a tool which provides an agile evaluation of the ecological footprint of a farm. This paper analyses the preliminary results of a survey in which 7 agro-ecological indicators were calculated for 81 organic farms in the ...
Bechini , Luca +2 more
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Classifications of innovations: Survey and future directions [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to focus on similarity and/or heterogeneity of taxonomies of innovation present in the economic fields to show as the economic literature uses different names to indicate the same type of technical change and innovation, and ...
Mario Coccia
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Metrics for driving political economy of energy and growth [PDF]
Energy metrics is the development of a whole new theoretical framework for the conception and measurement of energy and economic performances, energy efficiency and productivity improvements with important political economy implications consistent with ...
Mario Coccia
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Feedback e valutazione: il contributo dei social robots
IUL ResearchOggi emergono nuove opportunità per riformulare il processo di valutazione nella scuola primaria, accogliendo l’innovazione e servendosi dei robot sociali come mediatori nei contesti educativi.
Raffaella Forliano, Annamaria Di Grassi
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A dynamic operationalization of Sen's capability approach [PDF]
The limits of the utilitarian approach have led to a search for different notions of welfare. The income approach to well-being, in fact, doesn’t account for the diversity in human beings and for the heterogeneities of contingent circumstances.
Marco Grasso
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How should be the levels of public and private R&D investments to trigger modern productivity growth? Empirical evidence and lessons learned for Italian economy [PDF]
Governments in modern economies devote much policy attention to enhancing productivity and continue to emphasize its drivers such as investment in R&D. This paper analyzes the relationship between productivity growth and levels of public and private R&D ...
Mario Coccia
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