Search results for "Guarantee"
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Unit-level fairness and quality within the health care industry: A justice–quality model
2014
We test a justice–quality model in which peer justice and justice climate are related to the service quality provided by the work unit. Based on the effort–reward imbalance model, we propose that units perceiving fair treatment provide better delivery of the core service (functional service quality) and better relational service beyond the core service (relational service quality). We also test whether the cross-level relationship of high service quality delivered by work units translates into high customer ratings of the service quality they receive. Furthermore, we propose that high service quality increases the work unit’s influence on their customers’ quality of life (QoL). We test thes…
Accounting for service quality to customers in the efficiency of water companies: evidence from England and Wales
2015
This paper investigates the role of service quality to customers in the efficiency assessment of water companies in England and Wales. To achieve this, data envelopment analysis techniques are employed to compute the technical efficiency of the water companies following two approaches: (i) traditional assessment based on quantity variables (without the inclusion of service quality variables) and (ii) alternative assessment considering quantity and service quality variables as undesirable outputs. The analysis covers 22 water and sewerage companies and water only companies providing drinking water services. The results indicate that the traditional efficiency assessment reveals a high level …
Durata e prescrizione nella garanzia per i i vizi della vendita
2020
Il saggio analizza due recenti sentenze della Corte di cassazione in tema di onere della prova e di decorso del termine di prescrizione in materia di azioni edilizie nella vendita. L'analisi tenta di dimostrare che la soluzione di entrambe le questioni dipende dall'esatta qualificazione giuridica del vincolo del venditore come garanzia, intesa come attribuzione di utilità senza cooperazione. Su queste basi è possibile pervenire a conclusioni diverse e più solide rispetto a quelle cui perviene la Corte di cassazione. The essay analyzes two recent judgments of the Court of Cassation regarding the burden of proof and the expiry of the limitation period for the claim in the field of actions aga…
Le rinunce e transazioni sottratte alla disciplina dell’art. 2113 c.c.
2022
The essay deals with waivers and transactions on employees’ rights. According to the consistent judicial overview of art. 2113 of the civil code, waivers and trans actions on rights guaranteed by mandatory rules of law or collective bargaining, only concern renunciations of rights already acquired by the holder, and not still disputed. In particular, art. 2113 of the civil code does not apply if the right can be dismissed by the right holder, as in the case of job retention.
Lo sviluppo e l’innovazione
2021
Le norme della legge di bilancio per il 2021 in materia di sviluppo e innovazione sembrano ancora legate a una logica di natura emergenziale, ponendosi in continuitàconle normative adottate nel corso del 2020 per fare fronte alle fasi più acute della crisi causata dal Covid-19, con le quali, non a caso, condividono il carattere temporaneo degli interventi. Questi si basano su incentivi ai consumi, garanzie pubbliche sui prestiti bancari e varie provvidenze da distribuire tramite fondi pubblici appositamente istituiti. Sorprende l’assenza di progetti ambiziosi per lo sviluppo economico, che avrebbero potuto essere coordinati, o costituire anticipazioni, di quelli da inserire successivamente …
Libertà della persona nell’uso delle tecnologie digitali: verso nuovi orizzonti di tutela nell’accertamento penale
2020
L’ormai diffuso utilizzo di tecnologie digitali apre la via a moderne modalità investigative, che trovano un necessario limite nel rispetto delle libertà delle persone coinvolte. Sono libertà che se, da un lato, possono essere ricondotte ai principi costituzionali tradizionalmente in gioco nel procedimento penale, dall’altro lato, chiamano in causa garanzie inedite, a presidio di una “nuova” sfera di intimità da proteggere. The widespread use of digital technologies opens the way to new investigative methods that find a limit in the respect of concerned persons freedoms. These freedoms, on one side, are related to constitutionals principles traditionally under play in criminal proceedings. …
Emergencia y garantías (en el pensamiento jurídico de Luigi Ferrajoli)
2011
Abstract: Along with Spain and United Kingdom, Italy has suffered a terrible period of political violence between 1970 and 1982 with hundreds of killings. In this paper I analyse the origins of Luigi FERRAJOLI’s theory of legal guarantee and his criticisms to Italian legislation against terrorism of that time. Therefore, I shed light on three different understanding of such a theory and I offer a review of that legislation that he labelled as «the subsystem of exception ».Moreover I will apply this conception of «special» criminal law to two famous trials against militants of a group of the extreme left. According to FERRAJOLI, these trials have been an instance of the paradigm of political…
La giurisprudenza del Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport nel suo quarto anno di attività
2018
This essay analyzes the decisions of Sport Guarantee Committee issued in the year 2018. It follows the previous essay dedicated to the jurisprudence of Sport Guarantee Committee during the past three years of activity, published in this same journal, with the dual aim of updating with respect to the issues already dealt with therein and of enlargement with regard to new issues. As well as the previous, the present essay, for the function prformed by the Author within the Sport Guarantee Committee, carries a reasoned analysis, but with a merely descriptive cut, of the main jurisprudential approaches expressed in the decisions of the Guarantee Committe, with the aim to extrapolate the rules a…
Evaluation of Insurance Products with Guarantee in Incomplete Markets
2008
Abstract Life insurance products are usually equipped with minimum guarantee and bonus provision options. The pricing of such claims is of vital importance for the insurance industry. Risk management, strategic asset allocation, and product design depend on the correct evaluation of the written options. Also regulators are interested in such issues since they have to be aware of the possible scenarios that the overall industry will face. Pricing techniques based on the Black & Scholes paradigm are often used, however, the hypotheses underneath this model are rarely met. To overcome Black & Scholes limitations, we develop a stochastic programming model to determine the fair price of the mini…
Designing and pricing guarantee options in defined contribution pension plans
2015
Abstract The shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) is pervasive among pension funds, due to demographic changes and macroeconomic pressures. In DB all risks are borne by the provider, while in plain vanilla DC all risks are borne by the beneficiary. However, for DC to provide income security some kind of guarantee is required. A minimum guarantee clause can be modeled as a put option written on some underlying reference portfolio and we develop a discrete model that selects the reference portfolio to minimize the cost of a guarantee. While the relation DB–DC is typically viewed as a binary one, the model shows how to price a wide range of guarantees creating a continu…