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- A Simple Approach to CAPM, Option Pricing and Asset Valuation
- This paper presents a simple, intuitive approach to asset valuation in terms of marginal contributions to the characteristics moments of the market portfolio. Considering only the first two moments, mean and variance, the valuation equation is shown to correspond to Sharpe's CAPM.A risk-neutral pricing formula is easily derived, showing the...
- White papers 2003-03-19
- Good Faith In Contract Negotiation And Performance
- This paper provides a formal analysis of good faith in terms of a notion of satisfaction of given correctness rules. The distinction between objective and subjective good faith is considered, focusing on observable behaviour the former, and on beliefs the latter. The form given to the correctness rules will allow...
- White papers 2006-03-03
- Alternative Forms Of Fit Of Supplier-Manufacturer Relationships In New Product Development
- This paper applies a configurational approach to analyze the fit between task characteristics, organizational structuring decisions, and performance in inter-organizational relationships. The publisher use 81 dyads observed at the task level in two different studies of supplier-manufacturer relationships in new product development to test a systemic model of fit. In...
- White papers 2005-11-17
- Spatial Agglomeration, Technology And Outsourcing Of Knowledge Intensive Business Services.
- Aim of this paper is to explore the main drivers of outsourcing of knowledge intensive business services by Italian manufacturing firms. While anecdotal and empirical evidence has emphasized labor cost and scale economies as behind firms' choices to outsource production or service activities, here the authors focus on spatial agglomeration...
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Productivity And Firm Selection: Intra-National Vs Inter-National Trade
- With heterogenous firms, inter-national trade is predicted to increase aggregate productivity through a selection effect. The same theoretical insight applies to intra-national trade between sub-national economies. In this paper, we attempt at quantifying the impact of firm selection attributable to both international and intra-national trade. To do so, we structurally...
- White papers 2007-01-30
- Trade Integration, Firm Selection And The Costs Of Non-Europe
- In models with heterogeneous firms trade integration has a positive impact on aggregate productivity through the selection of the best firms as import competition drives the least productive ones out of the market. To quantify the impact of firm selection a multi-country multi-sector model with monopolistic competition and variable markups...
- White papers 2006-01-15
- FDI: A Difficult Connection Between Theory And Empirics
- The scope of FDI, the characteristics of the firms that produce it, the industrial structure of the markets to which it turns, the distinguishing features of the sector in which it occurs, and the typology of the host countries, all make FDI a puzzling phenomenon when considered in aggregate form....
- White papers 2006-11-10
- Outsourcing, Contracts And Growth
- This paper studies the decision of firms between vertical integration and outsourcing in a dynamic setting with product innovation. As in static models, outsourcing brings specialization efficiencies by reducing marginal costs of production, while bearing extra costs arising from search and incomplete contracts. It shows that static effects map into...
- White papers 2005-06-26
- Outsourcing And Structural Change: An Application To Some OECD Countries
- The paper aims at showing why and how outsourcing and structural change analysis could be bridged in order to obtain more accurate insights of economic dynamics and draw more reliable policy implications. Such a bridge is then set at work by applying a battery of outsourcing measurements to some OECD...
- White papers 2006-04-20
- New Trends In Business Intelligence
- Nowadays, as Data Warehousing DWing reached a high level of efficiency, new opportunities in exploiting information coming from the operational databases are requested by users. Consequently, we believe that in the next future the interests of researchers will be more and more oriented to BI applications while DW will play...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- Report on the ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2003)
- Data Warehouses are specialized databases for intelligent business applications. Data Warehouses have been rapidly spreading in the industrial world over the last decade due to their undeniable contribution to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the decision process within business and scientific domains. This wide diffusion was supported by remarkable...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Piracy and Quality Choice in Monopolistic Markets
- This paper studies the impact of piracy on the quality choices of a monopolist. In the absence of piracy, the monopolist has no incentive to differentiate its products. With piracy the monopolist might in- stead produce more than one quality, so that differentiation arises as the optimal strategy. This is...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Process and Product Innovation: A Differential Game - Approach to Product Life Cycle
- This paper investigates the timing of adoption of product and process innovation by using a differential game in which firms may invest in both activities. The paper considers horizontal product innovation that reduces product substitutability, and process innovation that reduces marginal cost. It demonstrates that the incentive for cost-reducing investment...
- White papers 2005-01-11
- Comparing Alternative Reimbursement Methods in a Model of Public Health Insurance
- This paper compares in-kind reimbursement and reimbursement insurance. It explicitly considers outpatient and inpatient care in a model where illness has a negative impact on labor productivity. Consumers are heterogeneous with respect to intensity of preferences for treatment which is their private information. Then the social planner has a choice...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- Prices vs. Quantities in Health Insurance Reimbursement
- This white paper compares in-kind reimbursement which fixes treatment quantities and reimbursement insurance which fixes treatment prices as demand side, cost-containment measures. In the model, illness has a negative impact on labor productivity and public insurance is financed through labor income taxation. Consumers are heterogeneous with respect to intensity of...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Endogenous Attention Costs And Intertemporal Decision-Making
- Recent contributions on intertemporal decision-making and self-control have focused on the impact of cognitive constraints on the way people behave over time. In particular there is evidence on the fact that exerting cognitive effort on the job, adhering to some specific behavioral plan and self-regulating behavior is fatiguing so that,...
- White papers 2006-05-15
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- Edison Pharma, University of Bologna and Columbia University Medical Center Establish Mitochondrial Disease Partnership.
- SAN JOSE, California, BOLOGNA, Italy, and NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- SAN JOSE, California, BOLOGNA, Italy, and NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ --
- Research articles 2006-03-16
- CHOP Plus Zevalin(R) Therapy is Feasible, Tolerable and Shows Efficacy in Elderly Patients With Most Common Type of Aggressive NHL.
- ORLANDO, Florida, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A study undertaken by the University of Bologna, Italy, was presented today at the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Haematology ASH in Orlando, USA, that demonstrates an innovative tre ORLANDO, Florida, December 11...
- Research articles 2006-12-11
- Canesta Inc.(AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS)(Brief Article)
- Canesta Inc. has awarded hardware and software development kits to several leading universities in the first phase of its CanestaVision design competition. Among the winners are Carnegie Mellon University, University of California-Santa Cruz, Washington University in St. Louis, Oxford Brookes University, University of Maryland Baltimore County,...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Research on Safety Levels in Tractors and Agricultural Machinery
- Since the 1960s, the University of Bologna Department of Agricultural Economics and Engineering DEIAGRA has carried out research on safety levels in tractors and agricultural machinery. The official Bologna OECD Tractor Testing Station is also part of DEIAGRA, which tests tractor performance and the strength of the protective structures. Related...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
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