There are substantial economic benefits from rubella immunization. This is true for immunization of infants of both sexes and of teenage girls. The ability to use combined measles-rubella vaccine and the occurrence of herd immunity favors vaccination of infants. However, even more important than...

The market for digital assets has evolved since its inception in 2009. Its rapid proliferation in 2016-18 was followed by significant downward corrections in 2018-19. The article evaluates the central stages of the evolution of the market in digital assets and their effects on market...

We investigate the relation between tax burdens and mutual fund performance from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. The theoretical model introduces heterogeneous tax clienteles in an environment with decreasing returns to scale and shows that the equilibrium performance of mutual...

A cost-benefit analysis can be a milestone for the probabilistic seismic risk assessment of building portfolios. This approach appraises social, economic, and technical aspects as evaluation criteria, becoming a reliable method for more accurate feasibility evaluation of Disaster Risk Reduction,...

The objective of the study is to assess the opportunity for the expansion of the Copernicus portfolio with the development of a new Copernicus product related to Ground Motion. This potential product will be referred as "Ground Motion Spatial Database for Europe" or "GMSDE". The goal of this...