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Bad loans and de novo banks: evidence from Italy
(2014)The existing empirical evidence suggests that there is a “winner’s curse” for banks entering new markets. Actually, it has been assessed that de novo banks generally experience higher bad loans rates than mature banks for ... -
Bias-corrected inference for multivariate nonparametric regression: model selection and oracle property
(2014)The local polynomial estimator is particularly affected by the curse of di- mensionality. So, the potentialities of such a tool become ineffective for large dimensional applications. Motivated by this, we propose a new ... -
Il capitale sociale conta per gli outcomes (macro)economici?
(2005)Il lavoro analizza due questioni aperte nella letteratura sul capitale sociale, vale a dire se dalle diverse nozioni di capitale sociale è possibile individuare un concetto robusto dal punto di vista empirico e se gli studi ... -
Capitale sociale: uno o molti? Pochi
(2005)Il lavoro presenta contributi lungo diverse linee. Primo, distingue tra una definizione strutturale del capitale sociale ristretta alle relazioni interpersonali, alle norme sociali e alla fiducia esistenti in una comunità ... -
Cooperative credit banks: some fundamental institutional features
(2012)The aim of this paper is to analyze individual preferences in relation to different job characteristics. This is an important issue in the light of the huge literature in labor economics and human resource management about ... -
I Distretti industriali italiani. Un'analisi comparativa
(2016)I distretti industriali italiani sono entità socio-territoriali caratterizzate da una forte eterogeneità, dovuta alla differente composizione, localizzazione, specializzazione produttiva (Core-business) e numerosità delle ... -
Dropping out of University of Salerno: a survival approach
(2008)The aim of this paper is to analyse and model the interval of time between the first enrolment at University and the first occurrence of non-enrolment, so that the event of interest is the dropping out of University. The ... -
Efficiency gains and mergers
(2008)In the theoretical literature, strong arguments have been provided in support of the e ciency defense in antitrust merger policy. One of the most often cited results is due to Williamson (1968) that shows how relatively ... -
Elasticities of complementarity and substitution in some functional forms. A comparative review
(2005)This paper presents and discusses the results of a comparative review of the elasticities of complementarity and substitution which may be obtained from seven functional forms, inflexible and flexible. Every functional ... -
Electoral Reform and Public Sector Efficiency. Some Evidence From Italian Municipalities
(2019)We study the effect of Law 81/1993, which introduced a different electoral rule for the election of the mayor, on the technical efficiency of Italian cities. Since 1993, municipalities below 15,000 inhabitants vote with a ... -
Estimating capability as a latent variable: a latent variable a multiple causes approach - the example of health
(2007)Following Sen’s approach to poverty, the ‘real’ poor are those who did not have the choice not to be poor. In other words, poor is an individual who did not have the capability (i.e. the possibility, the ability) to have ... -
GRID for model structure discovering in high dimensional regression
(2014)Given a nonparametric regression model, we assume that the number of covariates d → ∞ but only some of these covariates are relevant for the model. Our goal is to identify the relevant covariates and to obtain some information ... -
Gunnar Myrdale's critiques of utility theory. Some implications
(2008)This essay provides an ordered review of all the criticisms to the marginalist theory of utility contained in The Political Element of Gunnar Myrdal. Firstly, Myrdal’s criticises the marginalist hypothesis on human ... -
Harmful competition in the insurance markets
(2010)There is a general presumption that competition is a good thing. In this paper we show that competition in the insurance markets can be bad and that adverse selection is in general worse under competition than under monopoly. ...
