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Non-aviation revenues and growth in passengers’ traffic: Clustering Italian airports
(2012)The paper discusses about the relevance of non-aviation revenues (NAR) in Italian airports, in the light of the dynamics of the growth rate of passengers. In particular the study tries to comprehend if similar dynamics in ... -
Dependence of exchangeable residual lifetimes subject to failure
(2014)We provide exact formulas about the survival copula of an exchangeable random vector of residual lifetimes when some of the components have failed. Specific computations are carried out in the case of Archimedean copulas ... -
Business model innovation: coffee triumphs for Nespresso
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013)Purpose: This article aims to examine the concept of business model innovation and to discuss the design of the key elements. Based on a detailed case study of Nespresso, it seeks to outline how business model innovation ... -
Multivariate copulas with hairpin support
(2014)The notion of a two-dimensional hairpin allows for two different extensions to the general multivariate setting—that of a sub-hairpin and that of a super-hairpin. We study existence and uniqueness of -dimensional copulas ... -
Transition to IFRS in Germany and Italy: Impact on companies’ reporting performance
(2013)Previous research has investigated the economic consequences of IFRS adoption, but there is little evidence on the impact of IFRS adoption on companies’ reporting performance by adopting a comparative approach. To this ... -
Editorial: Special Section on the Second Annual Consumer Behavior in Tourism Symposium
(2011)The five articles presented in this section offer a sample of the large array of consumer behaviour-related research presented at the second annual Consumer Behavior in Tourism Symposium (CBTS2009). The papers deal with: ... -
Learning strategies in modelling economic growth
(2011)Cornerstone economic growth models as the Solow-Swan model and their modern extensions normally assume the rate of population growth as exogenous without any explanation of the links between economic growth and most important ... -
A discussion on: Of Quantiles and Expectiles: Consistent Scoring Functions, Choquet Representations, and Forecast Ranking, by W. Ehm, T. Gneiting, A. Jordan, and A. Krueger
(2016)In the practice of point prediction, it is desirable that forecasters receive a directive in the form of a statistical functional. For example, forecasters might be asked to report the mean or a quantile of their predictive ... -
Dynamic effects of oil price shocks and their impact on the current account
(2014)We study the dynamic effects of an oil price shock on key economic variables and on the current account of a small open economy. We introduce time-nonseparable preferences into a standard model of a small open economy, ...
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