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Economics out of Ethics
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The Fiction of Peer Review: Phenomenology of a Catastrophe
(2018)This essay offers a philosophical diagnosis of the fundamental transformation that has occurred in the nature of the pivotal figure of all systems of research evaluation: the peer. This diagnosis, in turn, sheds light on ... -
Between food delicacies and food taboos: A structural equation model to assess Western students' acceptance of Amazonian insect food
(2019)Interest in commercializing insect-based foods is growing steadily. Nevertheless, most Western consumers still consider insects a food taboo. In this study, we investigated how persuasion strategies based on technology and ... -
Market Soundings: The Interaction between Securities Regulation and Company Law in the United Kingdom and Italy
(2019)Before deciding on operations involving share issuance or sale, companies or shareholders may seek to disclose information to selected investors, in order to gauge their opinion on the envisaged market operation. Despite ... -
Correlated noise: Why passive investments might improve market efficiency
(2019)Over the last decades passive investment products have continuously increased their market share. The efficiency of financial markets is identified to be the main reason for this development. We propose a theoretical model ... -
A Hybrid DEA-MOLP Model for Public School Assessment and Closure Decision in the City of Philadelphia
(2018)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is generally used to evaluate past performance and multi objective linear programming (MOLP) is often used to plan for future performance goals. In this study, we establish an equivalence ... -
Structure, organization and a vision: Reasons for the success of wine cooperatives?
(2019)Several studies have found that wine cooperatives struggle to produce high quality grapes allowing them to produce better quality wines and to receive higher retail prices. In contrast, cooperatives in South Tyrol perform ... -
The Impact of Banks' Liquidity Reserves on Lending
(2018)The paper examines the impact from liquidity reserves on banks' lending. Analysing a large sample of US banks, we discover that the lending of our firms is lower when they hoard liquidity in the form of cash, inter-bank ... -
Organizational Form and Payoff Imbalances in an Aggrievement Model: Cooperatives versus Privately Owned Wineries
(2018)We build on Hart and Holmstrom (2010) to analyze the strategic choice of organizational form among wine producers. They claim that a firm's organizational form, when agreed upon competitively, conditions the sense of ... -
Optimism in Financial Markets: Stock Market Returns and Investor Sentiments
(2019)This paper investigates how investor sentiment aects stock market returns and evaluates the predictability power of sentiment indices on U.S. and EU stock market returns. As regards the American example, evidence shows ... -
Leader Effects and Gender Differences in Sequential Restaurant Ordering Environments
(2018)We empirically examine the strategic importance of the choices of the first person ordering, that is, the leader, for the decisions made and money spent by other commensals at a restaurant table. Our aim is to study the ... -
A Novel Genetic Algorithm Based Method for Solving Continuous Nonlinear Optimization Problems Through Subdividing and Labeling
(2018)We introduce a novel method called subdividing labeling genetic algorithm (SLGA) to solve optimization problems involving n - dimensional continuous nonlinear functions. SLGA is based on the mutation and crossover operators ... -
Dynamic Effects of Learning on the Innovative Outputs and Productivity in Spanish Multinational Enterprises
(2019)Empirical studies have consistently illustrated the existence of a relationship between the level of productivity and the international commitment of firms. Few studies have considered the effects of learning by foreign ... -
Tourism innovation: when interdependencies matter
(2018)This research note highlights the relevance of tourism’s natural system of interdependencies in the context of innovation creation. The lack of studies on tourism inter and intra-sectoral interdependencies and on their ... -
How accountability type influences information search processes and decision quality
(2019)This study investigates how accountability type (process or outcome) and causal chain framing influence information search processes and decision-making quality. Drawing on the accountability literature and causal reasoning ... -
Clustering dependent observations with copula functions
(2019)This paper deals with the problem of clustering dependent observations according to their underlying complex generating process. Di Lascio and Giannerini (Journal of Classification 29(1):50–75, 2012) introduced the CoClust, ... -
Identification of hidden Markov chains governing dependent credit-rating migrations
(2019)Three models of dependent credit-rating migrations are considered. Each of them entails a coupling scheme and a discrete-time Markovian macroeconomic dynamics. Every credit-rating migration is modeled as a mixture of an ... -
Business Cycles and Conditional Credit-Rating Migration Matrices
(2018)To quantify the impact of business cycles on the dynamics of credit ratings, conditional migration matrices and probabilities of the corresponding macroeconomic scenarios are estimated. The approach is tested on a Standard ... -
A Spatio-Temporal Model and Inference Tools for Longitudinal Count Data on Multicolor Cell Growth
(2018)Multicolor cell spatio-temporal image data have become important to investigate organ development and regeneration, malignant growth or immune responses by tracking different cell types both in vivo and in vitro. Statistical ...
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