Although the connection between crime and urban layout is generally evident, surveys inquiring that relationship are often facing two different problems: areas with high criminality are often inhabited by partially elusive populations (being stowaways) and the urban structure (e.g. length and...

The main techniques used for the spatial analysis of Urban Crime can generally be traced to crime mapping techniques, which are mere representations of crime dispersion over a specific urban area without any statistical modeling of its correlation with the urban structure of the city or any...

Emergency Department (ED) activity involves a consistent absorption of resources varying from medical staff to laundry services. Moving from the consideration that staff cost is the most relevant item among those reported in the ED balance sheet, we have conducted a statistical survey in one of...

This paper elaborates a Spatial Autoregressive and Spatial Error Model (SAR-SE Model) to investigate the Italian house price dynamics. House prices in real terms have been modelled for the period 1995-2008 in all the 103 Italian provinces along with affordability ratio, persistency term, some...

Recently housing markets have played a crucial role in macroeconomic developments. Optimistic housing markets have contributed to sustained economic activity in most OECD countries during the first years of the 2000s. Nevertheless many markets overheated and the collapse of the US subprime...

The recent years have witnessed an unprecedented surge of Emerging Multinational Enterprises (EMNEs), i.e. firms from the emerging economies that have started internationalization very late and have expanded abroad in a rather accelerated fashion.

The surge of international terminal operators (ITOs) gives momentum to the ongoing internationalization process in ports, and induces academic literature to investigate their overseas growth patterns. Empirical evidence shows that, although most container port operators experience regular...

Il presente studio si propone di affrontare il tema dell’impatto crocieristico sul territorio, assumendo una prospettiva di lungo termine; infatti, il turismo crocieristico contribuisce a valorizzare il territorio mediante il "passaparola" o word-of-mouth (WoM) attivato dai crocieristi. Lo...

Despite the interest shown by many authors in ocean carriers’ strategies and operations, only a few contributions have tried to evaluate the impact of growth strategies on firms’ performance and profitability. This article, adopting a holistic approach, measures the impact of growth...

Firms’ internationalization paths and their antecedents has become a major topic of recent international business (IB) literature. Indeed, a lively debate about the adequate degree of international diversification has recently emerged. To challenge the traditional temporal and spatial...