• Joint and conditional dependence modelling of district heating demand and weather conditions: a copula-based approach 

  Di Lascio FML; Menapace A; Righetti M (LMU Munich, 2019)

  We analyze the dependence relationship between district heating demand and weather conditions, such as outdoor temperature and solar radiation, through copula function. Copula function makes it possible to represent complex ...
• Copula-based clustering methods 

  Di Lascio FML; Durante F; Pappadà R (Springer International Publishing, 2017)

  We review some recent clustering methods based on copulas. Specifically, in the dissimilarity-based clustering framework, we describe and compare methods based on concordance or tail-dependence concept. An illustration is ...
• The Economics of Gossip and Collective Reputation 

  Boffa F; Castriota S (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  This chapter deals with reputation with a strong focus on the reputation of firms—groups or coalitions. To that end, the chapter heavily draws on the economic literature. The first section illustrates the three main sources ...
• Zambon: tradizione e innovazione 

  Grasso C; Di Minin A; De Massis A (Egea, 2019)
• Mimetic politics: Dyadic patterns in global politics 

  Farneti R (Michigan State University Press, 2015)

  War, violence, and the disruption of social orders are critical areas of focus in mimetic theory, and a mimetic perspective applied to the study of politics illuminates social processes and phenomena over and beyond typical ...
• Cultural and environmental assets in rural destination competitiveness 

  Osti L (Springer Gabler, 2019)

  In the present postmodern era, where tourists are looking for multiple experiences that embrace different and sometimes conflicting values, rural tourism is becoming increasingly heterogeneous, offering, in addition to ...
• Foreword 

  Lüfter R (Traugott Bautz, 2019)
• Bank CEOs: Characteristics, Compensation Policies, and Impacts on Bank Performance 

  Curi C; Murgia M (Springer, 2018)

  This book thoroughly explores the characteristics and importance of bank CEOs against the backdrop of growing awareness of the social implications of CEO behavior for the performance and stability of the financial and ...
• XV. ITALY 

  Lombardo S; Mucciarelli FM (Beck Nomos Hart, 2019)
• A test for truncation invariant dependence 

  Di Lascio FML; Durante F; Jaworski P (Springer, 2017)

  A test is proposed to check whether a random sample comes from a truncation invariant copula C, that is, if C is the copula of a pair (U, V) of random variables uniformly distributed on [0, 1], then C is also the copula ...
• Prefazione 

  Baroncelli S; Fracanzani MM (Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2017)
• Tourism Data Sources: From Official Statistics to Big Data 

  Volo S (SAGE, 2018)
• 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 ...
• How colonial railroads defined Africa’s economic geography 

  Moradi A; Jedwab R; Kerby E (CEPR Press, 2017)

  At the turn of the 19th century, sub-Saharan Africa was the least urbanised region in the world, with only about 50 cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants. By 2010, the number of cities had increased to almost 3,000. This ...
• Den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht sehen: Controller auf der Suche nach Nachhaltigkeit 

  Hartmann F; Maas K; Perego P (Springer Gabler, 2017)

  Im Laufe der letzten Jahre hat das Thema Nachhaltigkeit unter Finanzfachleuten an Bedeutung gewonnen. Traditionell legen Finanzfachleute eher Wert auf das Thema Nachhaltigkeit, da aus reputativer oder operativer Sicht ...
• Wahl:Freiheit? Die KOMFOR-Studie zum studentischen Wahlverhalten in überfachlichen Studienprogrammen - statische Analysen und Auswertung von Interviews 

  Strunz C; Adomßent M; Seifert A; Schütz J; Gunkel M (Waxmann, 2016)
• Barrier-Free Events: Requirements and Practices 

  Broseghini M; Volo S (Books on Demand GmbH, 2016)
• Sub-Saharan Africa 

  Moradi A (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

  In 2000, sub-Saharan Africa was the poorest region in the world in terms of GDP per capita—and the home of the majority of the world’s poor. Issues discussed in this chapter include the roles of geography, institutions and ...
• Privacy e contratti di cloud computing 

  Valle L; Russo B; Locatello DM; Bonzagni G (Giuffré, 2019)
• The end of the ever closer union 

  Hofmeister H (Hart Publishing (Oxford) / Nomos (Baden-Baden), 2018)

  The European integration project has been one of the success stories of the last century. The predominant Zeitgeist during this period was to advance this project by deepening mutual cooperation, encapsulated in the famous ...

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