Search results for " frontier"

L'interpretazione dei trattati che determinano frontiere

2015

L'articolo intende dimostrare che l'interpretazione dei trattati che determinano frontiere presenta interessanti differenze rispetto alle regole codificate nella Convenzione di Vienna. Più precisamente. per quanto concerne gli effetti giuridici, i trattati in materia di fontiere sono stati interpretati secondo le direttive metodologiche indicate nella Convenzione di Vienna, attribuendo peraltro una certa importanza al principio della "stabilità delle frontiere". Un approccio diverso è generalmente adottato invece per quanto riguarda l'interpretazione delle clausole che definiscono le frontiere dal punto di vista del loro contenuto. In primo luogo, il principio della stabilità delle frontier…

Climate variability, innovation and firm performance: evidence from the European agricultural sector

2021

Abstract It is generally accepted that adaptation to climate variability requires a technological advancement strategy. However, the innovation process has received little explicit consideration in this framework. We employ a panel endogenous switching regression model to explore whether and to what extent climate variability affects firm performance through the ability to induce the development of adaptation innovations in key resource-based sectors in Europe during the period 2007–2017. Our findings confirm that the knowledge generation process at the heart of climate change adaptation technologies enhances firm performance, especially for firms in the aquaculture and fishing sub-sectors …

Analisi di clorobenzeni in campione di sedimento mediante purificazione fotochimica: nuove frontiere nella Green Analytical Chemistry

2014

The Industrial City: The Multi-Ethnic Frontier of the Twentieth Century

2004

Between 1890 and 1920, big American industrial cities represented the frontier for the more than 23 million immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, Asia, and Central America, as well as for the African-Americans from the South. The development of mass consumption industries and the interventionism of the federal government provided security at the workplace and a general improvement in living standards for blue collar workers. The local party machines, the industrial unions and the effects of the First World War fully integrated the new immigrants into politics. Mass culture and entertainment made Americanization easier and, together with organised crime, were a quick way of social asc…

Assessment of tourism competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency

2013

Exploring the sources of labour productivity growth and convergence in the Italian regions: some evidence from a production frontier approach

2009

This paper investigates labour productivity growth and regional convergence patterns in Italy over the time span 1982–2000. Starting from some evidence of spatial polarisation within Italian economy, the analysis aims at exploring the sources of this tendency. To this end, an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) production frontiers is employed which allows to decompose labour productivity growth into efficiency change, technological progress and capital deepening, looking then at the relative contribution of each component to regional convergence. Moreover, some measures of human capital and public capital are used as augmentation factors of the conventional inputs. The study …

Stochastic Frontiers Approach: an Empirical Analysis of Italian Environmental Spending

2012

Using the stochastic frontiers approach (SFA) on a panel of Italian regional data, this paper tries to analyse the optimal design of environmental spending. The main question is, so forth, studying centralization vs decentralization of a public economic function, such as the protection of the environment, in order to improve the welfare of a country. Empirical results on Italy are ambiguous: the changing from a centralized to a decentralized government, giving more autonomy to local units, does not highlight a clear improvement in regional economic performance.

Local vs. National Environmental Spending: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

2012

This work studies the impact of public environmental spending in a fiscal federalist framework. The main question is studying when the centralization of this public economic function is welfare improving. Applying the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) on Italian, Portuguese and Slovakian data, the paper tries to test this issue. Our results highlight the superiority of centralized environmental spending with respect to the decentralization of this particular public good.

Controllo della migrazione nel Mediterraneo e tratta di persone: profili di responsabilità internazionale

2022

Smart Cities and a Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Comparison among European Cities

2013

The level of interest in smart cities is growing, and the recent literature on this topic (Holland, 2008; Caragliu et al., 2009, Nijkamp et al., 2011 and Lombardi et al., 2012) identifies a number of factors that characterise a city as smart, such as economic development, environment, human capital, culture and leisure, and e-governance. Thus, the smartness concept is strictly linked to urban efficiency in a multifaceted way. A seminal research for European policy conducted by Giffinger et al. (2007) defines a smart city on the basis of several intangible indicators, such as a smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart living, and smart governance. These authors’ …