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Sticky cost behaviour: evidence from small and medium sized companies
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014)This paper investigates whether cost stickiness occurs in small and medium sized companies using a sample of Italian nonlisted and listed firms during the period 1999-2008. Our findings show that cost stickiness emerges ... -
Innowacje w firmach rodzinnych. Paradoks możliwości i gotowości do innowacji
(2019)Biorąc pod uwagę znaczenie firm rodzinnych i znaczenie innowacji dla budowania skutecznej przewagi konkurencyjnej, nic dziwnego, że tak wiele pisze się w ostatnich latach o innowacjach w firmach rodzinnych. W szczególności ... -
Customer Perceptions of the Albergo Diffuso Concept: What Makes the Difference in Terms of Service Excellence?
(2019)This research introduces an innovative model of sustainable tourism called "Albergo Diffuso," a "made in Italy" concept of hospitality that exploits tangible and intangible local resources and is oriented toward the ... -
The value functions approach and Hopf-Lax formula for multiobjective costs via set optimization
(2020)The complete-lattice approach to optimization problems with a vector- or even set-valued objective already produced a variety of new concepts and results and was successfully applied in finance, statistics and game theory. ... -
When the market drives you crazy: Stock market returns and fatal car accidents
(2020)This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important–and hitherto neglected–spillover effects on fatal car accidents. Using the universe of fatal car accidents in the United States from ... -
History-informed strategy research: The promise of history and historical research methods in advancing strategy scholarship
(2020)Research Summary: The last decade has witnessed an increasing interest in the use of history and historical research methods in strategy research. We discuss how and why history and historical research methods can enrich ... -
Hindsight bias e instabilità del contratto: la Cassazione torna sugli interest rate swaps
(2018)La sentenza che si pubblica sembra voler raddrizzare parzialmente il tiro rispetto alle sentenze della Cassazione che nel 2017 hanno abbracciato senza riserve la tesi secondo cui gli interest rate swaps con funzioni di ... -
Orders of Merit and CEO Compensation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: Governments worldwide bestow orders of merit upon their citizens as a recognition of distinguished service. In this paper, I study whether orders of merit can function ... -
Blockchain Startups and Prospectus Regulation
(2019)ICOs are a new way for blockchain startups to finance project development by issuing coins or tokens in exchange for fiat money or Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. In this article, we start from the current distinction ... -
Government awards as economic instruments of governance
(2016)This paper investigates if government awards can act as instruments that influence corporate behaviour. For identification I use the staggered introduction of orders of merit in six German states after the reunification. ... -
Internal Reporting with XBRL Global Ledger
(2015)When you think about the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), you probably associate it with the preparation of financial statements. But external reports aren’t its only use. XBRL offers the ability to codify ... -
A Malmquist Productivity Index for Network Production Systems in the Energy Sector
(2020)In this paper, a method based on network data envelopment analysis (DEA) is proposed to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of decision making units (DMUs). In this regard, a version of the Malmquist productivity index ... -
An Integrated Data Envelopment Analysis and Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming Model for Linearizing the Common Set of Weights
(2019)The problem of ranking efficient decision making units (DMUs) is of interest from both theoretical and practical points of view. In this paper, we propose an integrated data envelopment analysis and mixed integer non-linear ... -
Agritourism: A Hedonic Approach of Quality Tourism Indicators in South Tyrol
(2019)This paper examines the prices of agritourism accommodation that include food services (i.e., the option to have breakfast) and related farm attributes. We analyze what tourists are willing to pay per night for a designated ... -
Numeraire dependence in risk-neutral probabilities of event outcomes
(2019)For most non-financial events, risk-neutral outcome probabilities are identical across numeraire currencies. Some events, however, such as elections or referendums, may have an impact on exchange rates. This implies numeraire ... -
Do Librarians Discriminate?
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Knighthoods, damehoods, and CEO behaviour
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)We study whether and how politicians can influence the behaviour of CEOs and firm performance with prestigious government awards. We present a simple model to develop the hypothesis that government awards have a negative ... -
Startups and Company Law: The Competitive Pressure of Delaware on Italy (and Europe?)
(2019)US corporate law and, in particular, Delaware law, which leaves ample room to freedom of contract, has been one of the reasons for the successful creation and financing of startups in Silicon Valley. We analyze the Italian ... -
Social housing in Italy: Old problems, older vices, and some new virtues?
(Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Sociology, 2017)Social housing in Italy, its historical and recent developments, and its critical issues are discussed considering both the pre- and the post-crisis period. The main effects of the crisis of the Italian households and the ...
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