The presentation will discuss the economic meaning of the concept of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) and review some of its properties. In particular, the age pattern of the VSL is considered. The presentation will also review recent estimates of the magnitude of a VSL taken from different...

This paper deals with the measurement of a service or product quality using Customer Satisfaction Survey results. Many different methods are used to analyse customer satisfaction data. Some use statistical models which estimate the relationship between the latent and manifest variables (LISREL,...

Large infrastructure projects are high cost investments devoted to the construction and operation of long life, specific assets, characterized by demand uncertainty and irreversibility. Besides these technical characteristics, the usual institutional setting for the proposal, evaluation and...

In this paper some notions of generalized derivatives for C(1,1) functions are introduced and studied.

In this paper, we first consider the problem of defining IFS operators on the space Kc of non-empty compact and convex subsets of Rd. After defining a complete metric on Kc, we construct an IFS operator and show some properties. A notable feature is the definition of a type of weak inner product...

Nonostante il progressivo sviluppo delle grandi superfici di vendita e dei centricommerciali extraurbani abbiano finito per accentuare il declino del commercio nelcentro storico, poca attenzione è stata finora dedicata al tema della mancanza di una“regia” per la valorizzazione di questa...

Using a balanced-growth model with physical and human capital accumulation, this article analyzes quantitatively the long run effects of changes in the saving rate and in income distribution (i.e., the shares of physical and human capital in income) on investment in human capital, growth of...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of culture, viewed according to Throsby’s definition of cultural capital (that is, an asset of tangible and intangible cultural expressions), in fostering economic growth. Recent literature in the field of cultural economics highlights a...

All’interno delle proprie attività istituzionali, il COSP (Centro per l’Orientamento allo Studio e allaProfessioni) dell’Università degli Studi di Milano ha deciso di promuovere un’indagine periodica suipercorsi lavorativi dei propri laureati. A questo scopo nel mese di febbraio 2001...

The main purpose of this article is to examine the consequences of using cultural resources (in its manifold appearances) to describe the knowledge dynamics of economic systems. The focus is on the ability of economic growth to guarantee sustainable use of arts or cultural resources as knowledge...