• Efficiency Measurement in Data Envelopment Analysis in the Presence of Ordinal and Interval Data 

  Ebrahimi B; Tavana M; Rahmani M; Santos-Arteaga FJ (2018)

  Several methods have been proposed in data envelopment analysis (DEA) for measuring efficiency in problems with interval or ordinal data. In this study, we review the weaknesses and drawbacks of these methods and show how ...
• Politicians’ coherence and government debt 

  Bellettini G; Roberti P (Springer New York LLC, 2019)

  We model a society that values coherence between the long-term commitment of politicians to given levels of public good provision and current policy. In that context, we suggest a novel mechanism by which issuing government ...
• Efficiency Decomposition and Measurement in Two-Stage Fuzzy DEA Models Using a Bargaining Game Approach 

  Tavana M; Khalili-Damghani K; Santos Arteaga FJ; Mahmoudi R; Hafezalkotob A (2018)

  In this paper, a fuzzy two-stage Game-DEA (FTSGDEA) approach is proposed using a bargaining game model. Each decision-making unit (DMU) consists of two serially connected sub-DMUs. The first sub-DMU uses several inputs to ...
• Vorfahrt für IT-Bildung! 

  Nippa M (2019)

  AUSBILDUNG - Überall wird die Bedeutung der Digitalisierung für die Zukunftsfähigkeit unserer Wirtschaft und unseres Landes beschworen. Doch die kommende Generation wird mangelhaft darauf vorbereitet. Südtirols Schulen ...
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  Bagged fuzzy clustering for fuzzy data: An application to a tourism market 

  D’Urso P; Disegna M; Massari R; Prayag G (2015)

  Segmentation has several strategic and tactical implications in marketing products and services. Despite hard clustering methods having several weaknesses, they remain widely applied in marketing studies. Alternative ...
• Sparse and robust normal and t- portfolios by penalized Lq-likelihood minimization 

  Giuzio M; Ferrari D; Paterlini S (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2016)

  Two important problems arising in traditional asset allocation methods are the sensitivity to estimation error of portfolio weights and the high dimensionality of the set of candidate assets. In this paper, we address both ...
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  Foreign bank diversification and efficiency prior to and during the financial crisis: does one business model fit all 

  Curi C; Lozano-Vivas A; Zelenyuk V (2015)

  Diversified and focused business models may affect foreign bank efficiency differently. We investigate whether there is an optimal business model along three business dimensions assets, funding and income and which business ...
• Wirtliche Ökonomie: Philosophische und dichterische Quellen; Teilband 2 

  De Gennaro I; Kazmierski S; Lüfter R; Simon R (Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2016)

  Das Buch stellt den zweiten Teilband eines mehrbändigen Sammelwerkes dar, in dem von Philosophen sowie klassischen und modernen Philologen Beiträge zur ethischen ökonomie und ihrer Geschichte zusammengeführt sind. Es ...
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  Complete Duality for Quasiconvex and Convex Set-Valued Functions 

  Drapeau S; Hamel AH; Kupper M (2016)

  This paper provides a unique dual representation of set-valued lower semi-continuous quasiconvex and convex functions. The results are based on a duality result for increasing set-valued functions.
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  R&D internationalization and the strategic relevance of the institutional framework in host locations 

  Alvarez I; Marin R; Santos-Arteaga FJ (2016)

  The configuration of host national systems of innovation and the technological international networks established by multinational enterprises (MNE) can become key aspects for the internationalisation decision that may ...
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  Self-Organizing Social Networks by Preference Similarity and the Networking Capacity of their Users 

  Di Caprio D; Santos-Arteaga FJ; Tavana M (Elsevier, 2016)

  Consider the decision faced by the user of a social media site of whether or not to accept a friendship request from another user, given the limited amount of information available before deciding. We formalize the problem ...
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  Financial Center Productivity and Innovation prior to and during the financial crisis 

  Curi C; Lozano-Vivas A (2015)

  This paper assesses and tests the response of banks operating in financial centers to the financial crisis by investigating the actual productivity change and its components - pure efficiency change, scale efficiency change ...
• The Dark Places of Business Enterprise: Reinstating Social Costs in Institutional Economics 

  Frigato P; Santos-Arteaga FJ (Routledge, 2019)

  This book considers Thorstein Veblen’s central preoccupation with the dark places of business enterprise, an integral part of the old institutional economics. Combining the contributions made by Karl William Kapp and Philip ...
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  Model confidence bounds for variable selection 

  Li Y; Luo Y; Ferrari D; Hu X; Qin Y (Wiley Online Library, 2019)

  In this article, we introduce the concept of model confidence bounds (MCB) for variable selection in the context of nested models. Similarly to the endpoints in the familiar confidence interval for parameter estimation, ...
• An Integrated Data Envelopment Analysis and Simulation Method for Group Consensus Ranking 

  Ebrahimnejad A; Tavana M; Santos-Arteaga FJ (2016)

  Group consensus ranking is an important topic in performance evaluation and selection research. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been used for obtaining an efficiency score (preference score) for each candidate. We ...
• Innovation Dynamics and Labor Force Restructuring with Asymmetrically Developed National Innovation Systems 

  Santos-Arteaga FJ; Di Caprio D; Tavana M; O'Connor A (2017)

  The concept of National Innovation System (NIS) has gained a great deal of intellectual and practical attention over the past three decades. We present an endogenous growth model where the NIS of a country determines its ...
• An Experimental Design for Optimizing the Degree of Shared Leadership in Senior Engineering Design Teams 

  Galli B; Santos Arteaga FJ; Kaviani MA; Mohebbi C (2017)

  We present an experimental design approach for identifying the optimal levels of the key internal and external environmental conditions of shared leadership, which, in turn, would enable an engineering team to develop and ...
• A Dynamic Multi-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Model with Application to Energy Consumption in the Cotton Industry 

  Khalili-Damghani K; Tavana M; Santos-Arteaga FJ; Mohtasham S (2015)

  Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric method for evaluating the relative efficiency of homogenous decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and outputs. In this paper, we present a dynamic multi-stage ...
• State capacity and repression: A model of colonial rule 

  Roberti P (Elsevier B.V., 2019)

  State capacity in colonial regimes can have spillover effects on the welfare of citizens if the colonizer is removed. This work shows that when spillovers are positive, investments in state capacity and repression by the ...
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  Sportentwicklung Südtirol 2025: GemeinSCHAFFT BewegungsRAUM! 

  Maurer O; Schnitzer M (2018)

  Sportentwicklung Südtirol 2025 Project brochure - endreport

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