In this paper we investigate how in commons based peer production a large community of contributors coordinates its efforts towards the production of high quality open content. We carry out our empirical analysis at the level of articles and focus on the dynamics surrounding their production....

In the paper we investigate an organizational practice meant to increase the quality of commons-based peer production: the use of template messages in wiki collections to highlight editorial bugs and call for intervention. In the context of SimpleWiki, an online encyclopedia of the Wikipedia...

The use of cointegration tests has become very popular in the empirical analysis of the tourism-led growth hypothesis (TLGH). It was first introduced in the tourism economics literature by Balaguer and Cantavella-Jordà (2002) and then popularized by many researches which tried to assess the...

In the context of Social Welfare and Choquet integration, we briefly review the classical Gini inequality index for populations of n ≥ 2 individuals, including the associated Lorenz area formula, plus the k-additivity framework for Choquet integration introduced by Grabisch, particularly...

Il lavoro studia la dinamica della produttività di un campione di imprese manifatturiere italiane nel periodo 1995-2006. Il calcolo della produttività è basato sull’indice di Malmquist, calcolato impiegando tecniche non parametriche. La scomposizione dell’indice...

This paper reviews a class of multifractal models obtained via products of exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by L«evy motion. Given a self-decomposable distribution, conditions for constructiong multifractal scenarios and general formulas for their Renyi functions are provided....

We consider the classical inequality measures due to Gini, Bonferroni, and De Vergottini and we present a brief review of the three inequality indices and the associated welfare functions, in the correspondence scheme introduced by Blackorby and Donaldson, and Weymark. The three classical...

Productive efficiency in hotels varies greatly. Based on a large dataset on the hotel industry in an Italian region, a two-stage approach was used, first to distinguish the component of inefficiency arising from external factors, linked to destination, and then to isolate the role that...

In questo lavoro si considera il ruolo delle innovazioni commerciali intese come marchio, spese in pubblicitâˆšÉ , individuazione di nuovi canali distributivi etc. nella crescita delle imprese operanti in settori tradizionali. L'esperienza di rapida crescita di molte imprese come ad esempio...