Dipartimenti e Centri di ricerca UniSA. Pubblicazioni scientifiche: Recent submissions
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Social Europe as a Multilevel Governance: The Italian Perspective
(2016)The article deals with history and historiography of Social Europe, understood as integra-tion of social forces (mainly the trade-unions) of the different European countries. The communitarian dimension of trade-unionism, ... -
The Highly Skilled Maghrebians “on the move” : A Circular Cross-border Dynamic from the Mediterranean
(2016)Arising from the internationalization of training, when communication conditions have changed and now offer innumerable opportunities, highly skilled graduates manage their careersconfident of unlimited possibilities. ... -
Algeria post Arab Spring: The Forced Virtualisation of the Borders
(2016)Algeria is the core of the Maghreb and shares land borders with seven countries Maghreb and Sahel countries. However, since 2011, none of the seven land borders is stable and se-cure. So, even if Algeria is considered as ... -
The Cultural Borders of Citizenship in a Multicultural Society
(2016)One of the basic problems confronting multicultural societies is the inclusion of cultural differences into a common citizenship. What does it mean inclusion? And inclusion to what? The ‘inclusion’ formula of modernity ... -
Beyond the Disciplinary Borders : A New Challenge
(2016)Present society needs a new approach to knowledge, mainly required by the fast succession of the transformation of society and by the multidimensionality of the daily life problems. It is necessary, therefore, a more and ... -
Beyond the Borders : The Mediterranean between Cultures, Migrantions and Life-world
(Fisciano, Italy : ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2016)This book resulted from a rich collaboration between sociologists of different nationalities and reflects on Mediterranean as a strategic element to overcome the current crisis in Europe, becoming stimuli for the review ... -
El español y sus confines. Diversidad y uniformidad
(2016)In this article we analyze the current situation of Spanish language in the world and its ancient “boundaries”, which are at the same time simple and structured, regular and variable, uniform and different. And while the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A general coalition structure: some equivalence results
(2013)The formation of coalition may imply some theoretical difficulties, such as costs arising from forming a coalition or sharing information among agents. In this paper we will assume that only a subset S of the set of all ... -
New insights on the relationships between geographic and institutional distance in research collaborations: a long period analysis
(2014)This paper analyses the relationship between institutional and geographic distance in scientific collaborations, evaluating the possible changes when a long period (sixteen years) is taken into consideration and discussing ... -
Nudging e Salute: un binomio possibile?
(2013)Il termine inglese nudging viene tradotto in italiano con la locuzione “spinta gentile”. Esso indica un’azione svolta dallo Stato diretta ad incentivare (o disincentivare) comportamenti individuali ritenuti benefici (o ... -
Asymmetry in the permanent price impact of block purchases and sales: theory and empirical evidence
(2012)This paper extends previous research which has examined the market impact of large transactions in bull and bear markets by examining the information effects of trades. Previous research has demonstrated that the information ... -
Third party punishment and criminal: an experiment with Italian camorra prison inmates
(2012)In Third Party punishment experiments (Fehr et al.; 2004), an agent may be punished for violating a social norm by an uninvolved observer - or third party - whose payoff is unaffected by the behavior of the same agent. In ... -
Optimal compensation contracts for optimistic managers
(2012)We study an employment contract between an (endogenously) optimistic manager and realistic investors. The manager faces a trade-off between ensuring that effort reflects accurate news and savoring emotionally beneficial ... -
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 ... -
How do the institutions involved in scientific collaboration deal with different kinds of distance? An analysis of the co-authorships of scientific publications
(2012)In the scientific collaborations among different institutions at least two types of distance may be identified: spatial and institutional. We talk about spatial distance if the institutions are located in different places; ... -
A comparison of the forecasting performances of multivariate volatility models
(2013)The consistent ranking of multivariate volatility models by means of statistical loss function is a challenging research field, because it concerns the quality of the proxy chosen to replace the unobserved volatility, the ... -
Who and where are the co-authors? The relationship between institutional and geographical distance in scientific publications
(2014)The main goal of our research is to analyse the relationship between geographical and institutional distance in research collaboration. Given that there is institutional distance if different kinds of institutions collaborate, ... -
Role of nitric oxide in glioblastoma therapy: another step to resolve the terrible puzzle?
(2015)Glioblastoma Multiforme, the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor, remains incurable despite of the advent of modern surgical and medical treatments. This poor prognosis depends by the recurrence after surgery ...
