The health care reform it is no longer to be postponed due to the high costs and inefficiencies, as well as differences in the distribution of services, and sharpen existing disparities in the quality of care between regions, according to the health needs of the growing aging population and the...

The paper aims to the laying out of conceptual and empirical bases for analyzing the impact of the intangible elements have on local performance. These include the cultural and natural heritage and human capital both in the process of territorial growth – regional and provincial – and in the...

This paper talks about multi-pillar pension system in Italy, focusing most on the impact of Pension Funds established by trade unions and employers associations. Minor sensitivity to demographic shocks is what makes funding appealing in respect of public <em>pay-as-you-go</em> scheme. Benefit comes from...

Comprehension of the phenomenon of ‘waste’ in the global arena in general, and as an issue of international cooperation in particular, needs to be analyzed from many different perspectives. The current work is a modest contribution from the interdisciplinary perspective of anthropology and...

There is still an unmet need for intensified research into health economic evaluation models of orphan drugs. In the first part of the paper some main issues related to the limits of cost-effectiveness in rare diseases are developed. In order to investigate the theoretical aspect in practice, a...

We study the effects of ownership and complementarity on the performance of bilateral contracts (M&A, Minority Stake purchase and Joint Venture). We derive profitability conditions based on how a contract changes the asset control between partners and how this affects their position against...

We study the effects of service offshoring on the wages of Italian workers. To this purpose, we build up a novel data set combining information from two different sources: (1) matched employer-employee data based on administrative records from the Italian National Social Security Institute; and...

We study political distortions that emerge in situations where agents' political power is disproportionate with respect to their economic power. We use the Shapley value to evaluate both the economic and the political power. We show that usual weighted majority voting cannot prevent political...

We investigate the role and impact of exposure to brands in consumers’ evaluations of lager beers, and explore its relation with exposure to intrinsic information. The first objective is to study the ability of young consumers to identify their preferred beer. The second is to explore the role...

The growing role of evaluation of academic activities in the Italian university system fosters a careful thought about the main lines of evolution of evaluation in European university systems. The analysis will be carried out through a comparative approach. It will help to understand the Italian...