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Oggettivismo e relativismo: alcune definizioni e una proposta
2009
Spazi e attività economiche nell’architettura domestica della Sicilia greca: osservazioni sull’evidenza archeologica, a partire dal caso di Himera
2018
While the functional analysis of houses is increasingly adopted, even in the archaeology of Sicily, as a tool useful for understanding the ancient way of life and the changing attitudes towards the ‘private’ space from the Early Archaic to Late Hellenistic times, it is mainly based on the architectural layout and on the physical characteristics of the buildings, or sometimes on a tiny selection of the findings. The possibility of analysing the activities concerned with production and commerce, and of appreciating the economic role of the domestic units, is consequently hardly limited. An useful case study is the town of Himera, due to the extension of the residential districts. So, a multif…
Spanish Stock Returns: Rational or Weather-Influenced?
2002
Psychological studies support the existence of an influence of weather on mood. It could affect the behaviour of market traders, as suggested by some authors, and this should be reflected by the stock returns. This paper investigates the possible relation between weather and market index returns in the context of the Spanish market, in order to test the above hypothesis. In 1989, this market changed its open outcry trading system into a computerised and decentralised trading system. Therefore, it is possible to check the influence of weather variables (sunshine hours and humidity levels) on index returns in an open outcry trading system, and to compare it with a screen traded environment. T…
Architettura e paesaggio nella città contemporanea
2017
Negli ultimi anni il paesaggio italiano ha subìto un continuo degrado con edifici che non sempre hanno il senso di appartenenza al contesto, al paesaggio e alla storia dei luoghi. L’articolo esamina delle proposte progettuali di ambito europeo, con alcune riflessioni critiche attorno al rapporto tra paesaggio e architettura contemporanea. I progetti illustrati, seppur espressione parziale di una più ampia produzione europea e internazionale, forniscono un adeguato spunto per avviare riflessioni teoriche e progettuali sul tema del rapporto fra paesaggio e architettura contemporanea. Il percorso tra i luoghi, tra città e paesaggi, visto attraverso lo sguardo di altri, ha costituito una sorta …
Contesti, sistemi e centralità diffusa
2014
Palermo è una città difficile da capire per le tante contraddizioni che la caratterizzano, per l’ossimoro che racchiude in sé, per le eterne, dicotomiche contrapposizioni delle diverse città comprese forzatamente in un unico corpo multiforme; quella misera e luttuosa dei suoi spazi più interni e interstiziali; quella che si sforza di manifestare la sua fragile bellezza attraverso testimonianze memorabili di una storia unica; quella laico-borghese i cui vaneggiamenti progressisti e riformatori ottocenteschi si sono infranti contro l’irriducibile eterna aspirazione urbana ad una voluttuosa immobilità storica; quella non scettica e indifferente nei confronti della modernità (di tutte le modern…
Pushing Through or Slacking Off? Heterogeneity in the Reaction to Rank Feedback
2018
This paper studies heterogeneity in the reaction to rank feedback. In a laboratory experiment, individuals take part in a series of dynamic real-effort contests with intermediate feedback. To solve the identification problem in estimating the causal effect of rank feedback on subsequent effort provision we implement a random multiplier in the first round of each contest. The realization of this multiplier then serves as a valid instrument for rank feedback. While rank feedback has a robust effect on subsequent effort provision on average, an explicit analysis of between-subject heterogeneity reveals that a substantial fraction of participants in fact react entirely opposite than the aggrega…
Trade and Interlegality
2019
The idea that the WTO legal system and its institutional bodies (especially the judicial branch) have developed a single-sided ides of what is good and would attempt to impose a deep-rooted liberalization agenda on the rest of world is hardly corroborated by an empirical analysis. Quite the contrary, recourse to a series of legal techniques has made it possible to leave open a space for reciprocal understanding and debate with other circuits of legality.
Reaching Out to the Europeans. Political Parties’ Facebook Strategies of Issue Ownership and the Second-Order Character of European Election Campaigns
2020
The European Election campaign 2019 enjoyed heightened attention in the European and global public due to the recent emergence of populist actors, new parties, and large European issues such as immigration, climate change, and Brexit. Starting theoretically from the issue ownership theory, shareworthiness, and the second-order character of European elections, the study at hand investigates the campaigns of 69 parties from 9 countries on Facebook as one of the current central spheres of electoral contest. Facebook enables parties to provide users with selected issues considered advantageous for themselves. The number of posts’ shares indicates whether the parties manage to reach out to the v…