Since the end of the eighties, the Italian University system has been undergoing an unprecedented change. In order to bring our system up to European standards, legislators have introduced a large number of innovative factors which have caused a reconsideration of “consolidated University...

We develop an efficient computational algorithm that produces efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) transition matrices. The first level of efficinecy is measured in terms of the number of operations needed to produce the resulting matrix. The second level of efficiency is evaluaded in terms...

The internationalisation pattern of district firms in the last decades can be viewed -as envisaged by traditional theory- in terms of exploitation of both firm and territorial advantage to expand into foreign markets. Rapid and intense internationalisation processes represent a means for...

An overview of ordering defined on the space of Markov chains having a pre-specified distribution as their unique stationary distribution is provided. The intuition gained by studying these orderings is used to improve existing Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms.

This paper explores the relationship between techonological activity and export performance between 1985 and 1998 for nine large developing countries and twenty-five primary and secondary sectors. We use a structural decomposition analysis to show that developing countries tend to concentrate...