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Multiple Blockholders and Firm Value: A Simulation Analysis
2023
In this paper, we analyse the relationship between the distribution of ownership and firm value in the presence of multiple blockholders. In recent years, the topic has attracted the attention of many scholars. Yet, the empirical evidence on the relationship between the distribution of ownership among large shareholders and firm value has been non-conclusive and contradictory. We focus on the interaction between a controlling block of shareholders and a non-controlling block that can monitor the largest controlling block. We develop and simulate a simple model combining the two effects related to the presence of additional blockholders that can monitor the largest controlling block of share…
The use of armed drones for counter-terrorism purposes: whether customary international law?
2019
The vast and rapid development of technologies constantly creates gaps in the law within both the international and national law systems. One of such technologies the increased usage of which for military purposes has instituted a debate on the applicable law for its use under the existing legal frameworks is the technology of armed drones, also known as armed unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs). The source of the debate is the presumption that armed drones are almost exclusively used for counter-terrorism purposes, thus involving their use against non-state actors operating in a country that a state is not in war with. The author of this thesis will, first of all, identify the established leg…
Evaluation of the Safety Performance of Turbo Roundabouts by Means of a Potential Accident Rate Mode
2015
Turbo roundabouts are a particular road intersection layout, designed to increase the safety of double-lane roundabouts, while maintaining their excellent capacity. The main feature of this new concept of roundabout is the impossibility to move from one lane to another, provided by physical barriers marking the lanes. The paper shows an application to turbo roundabouts of a potential accident rate model, aiming to evaluate their safety improvement. Themodel is based on the concept of potential conflict: each vehicle involved in a general intersection performs a series of maneuvers which potentially imply a crash, according to the actual traffic. The number of accidents related to each criti…
Gender violence in migration: Voices of migrant women in Sicily
2015
Migrant women constitute a growing reality in Italy, also with reference to violence among family members. In particular, violence endured by the foreign female takes on a character of ‘dual violence,’ the violence experienced within the relationship is supplemented by the violence from the social context, which often isolates her, or even expels her following her ‘coming out into the open.’ The article presents extensive reflections emerging from the results of research carried out in 2012 in Sicily, aiming to explore the experience and perception of family violence and the possible influence of the migratory experience on changes in the forms and implications of family violence. The refle…
Cittadinanza come trasformazione nonviolenta dei conflitti
2005
Viene sviluppata un'analisi del rapporto tra globalizzazione, conflitti identitari e interculturali e cittadinanza e si propongono alcune idee per la loro concreta gestione nonviolenta. analysis of the relationship between globalization, identity and intercultural conflicts and citizenship; some ideas are proposed for their concrete non-violent management
Il perimetro variabile dell’insindacabilità dei Consiglieri regionali: la vis politica delle decisioni “strategiche” per l’economia regionale. Nota a…
2022
La sentenza n. 90 del 2022 della Corte costituzionale risolve un conflitto di attribuzioni fra Stato e Regione Valle d’Aosta originato dalla sentenza della sezione giurisdizionale III centrale della Corte dei conti (la nr. 350 del 2021) di condanna per responsabilità da danno erariale nei confronti di diversi Consiglieri della Regione per aver deliberato un atto amministrativo concernente un’operazione di rifinanziamento del Casinò di Saint-Vincent. A differenza dei criteri precedentemente seguiti per definire l’ambito di applicazione dell’insindacabilità dei Consiglieri regionali nell’ipotesi di deliberazioni consiliari relative ad atti non legislativi (cfr. spec. Corte cost. nn. 69 e 70 d…
Forced monachizations, judicial strategies and noble logic: Sister Anna Maddalena Valdina
2017
In 1640 Anna, the daughter of the prince of Valdina, was forced to live in a convent (for patrimonial reasons) in Palermo along with three sisters. She was seven years old and remained there until 1699. First she asked her father and then her brother to leave the monastic life that she never accepted. Her story is inscribed within the phenomenon of the so-called "forced monachizations ", to which the Council of Trent had tried to remedy for. After the death of her brother, in 1693, now about sixty years old Anna asked the archbishop of Palermo to nullify his religious profession and to return to the lay state. Thus begins a very severe judicial dispute that triggers a violent jurisdictional…
Quando il diritto diventa morale
2018
This paper is divided in two parts. In the first one Damiano Canale’s description of practical conflicts between law and morality is revisited and some criticisms proposed. The second part is devoted to a short exploration of the varieties of ways of understanding morality particularly in relation with the moral nature of law itself.
Evolutionary Conflict Between Maternal and Paternal Interests: Integration with Evolutionary Endocrinology
2016
International audience; Conflict between mates, as well as conflict between parents and offspring are due to divergent evolutionary interests of the interacting individuals. Hormone systems provide genetically based proximate mechanisms for mediating phenotypic adaptation and maladaptation characteristic of evolutionary conflict between individuals. Testosterone (T) is among the most commonly studied hormones in evolutionary biology, and as such, its role in shaping sexually dimorphic behaviors and physiology is relatively well understood, but its role in evolutionary conflict is not as clear. In this review, we outline the genomic conflicts arising within the family unit, and incorporate m…
Paradoxes and coping mechanisms in the servitisation journey
2022
Servitisation is conceptualised as product manufacturers' transition towards bundling products and services to offer customers enhanced value. Scholars have raised concerns regarding the potential challenges that firms face during servitisation, often termed servitisation paradoxes. Limited studies have explored the paradoxes experienced during the servitisation journey and the associated coping mechanisms. We utilise the open-ended essay methodology to unravel various paradoxes and coping mechanisms to address the gap. We collected data in two stages—from 69 participants in the first stage and 32 in the second stage. The study's findings reveal three broad paradoxes: the paradox of organis…