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This paper argues critically the issue of choices and rationality in economic models through a multidisciplinary analysis. First, the analysis aims at highlight the scientific contributions of psychology in economics, since psychology and the related approach of cognitive economics has made more...
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This work concerns the maximum flows – minimum cost problem and its main algorithmic solutions. Such a problem involves determining the least cost shipment of a commodity through a capacitated network in order to satisfy demands at certain vertices using supplies available at other vertices....
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This paper assesses the impact of environmental factors on the efficiency of public transit system within a DEAbased mixed framework. Using a sample of 100 Italian companies, we implement a two-stage method in order to investigate the impact of environmental effects into DEA inefficiency...
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Italian Abstract: Vengono esposti i principi base della teoria delle aste. Quali le questioni da risolvere, quali ingredienti, quali ipotesi necessarie per semplificare una teoria altrimenti piuttosto complessa. Vengono sviluppati i meccanismi d'asta al I e al II prezzo, risolvendo per le...
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This is a short survey on consumption theory. Consumption is important to both fluctuation and growth. In addition, consumption introduces some important issues involving financial markets and portfolio decisions. We will describe consumption decisions in a dynamic context. Uncertainty about...
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The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different weighting schemes on the indicator's construction could...
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Nel presente articolo è proposta un'estensione della tecnica degli alberi bi/tri-nomiali, largamente usata per la valutazione di titoli derivati, ad una tecnica basata sulla costruzione di alberi N-nomiali, con N intero arbitrario. Il vantaggio di tale tecnica consiste essenzialmente in 1)...
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Coordination failures are very important in imperfect markets, because of related concept of multiple equilibria. This article attempts to explore this topic using tools to overcome the limitations of traditional analytical apparatus, which imposes stringent conditions about functions and...
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L'economia politica è, tra le scienze umane, quella che maggiormente sperimenta l'attrazione verso i metodi quantitativi e in particolare verso la matematica e la statistica. Recentemente questa attrazione si è fatta ancor più forte che in passato, al punto che non è raro trovare, tra gli...
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Italian Abstract: Questo lavoro si propone il compito di individuare un approccio alternativo (in termini di algoritmo matematico) in grado di determinare con velocità (i.e. di convergere nel giro di poche iterazioni) il valore della volatilità implicita delle opzioni. Tale valore è di...
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