The main goal of this paper is to show how the scientific production of advanced western countrie... more The main goal of this paper is to show how the scientific production of advanced western countries is distributed and connected in global networks. Together with various indicators for the evaluation of the journal, the database used is provided by Scopus, the most comprehensive for dimension and variety in representing international scientific production. An elementary statistics is not suitable for this task: different journals are linked with different countries, with many indices in a complex many to many relations. Therefore a new artificial adaptive system, named Atemporal Target Diffusion Model (ATDM, for short), will be used for this analysis. ATDM has already
This paper studies the optimal State support policy for an economy of retailers in which there is... more This paper studies the optimal State support policy for an economy of retailers in which there is a criminal organization (called the Gang) that tries to enforce a rake‐off scheme via punishment of reluctant retailers. The State aims at reducing the cost of reluctance through a suitable support policy (protection and insurance against physical damage) in order to undermine the Gang's threatening power and eventually to defeat it. Optimal support policies are determined for various rake‐off schemes under the assumption that retailers tend to abandon expensive strategies for cheaper ones.
The main goal of this paper is to show how the scientific production of advanced western countrie... more The main goal of this paper is to show how the scientific production of advanced western countries is distributed and connected in global networks. Together with various indicators for the evaluation of the journal, the database used is provided by Scopus, the most comprehensive for dimension and variety in representing international scientific production. An elementary statistics is not suitable for this task: different journals are linked with different countries, with many indices in a complex many to many relations. Therefore a new artificial adaptive system, named Atemporal Target Diffusion Model (ATDM, for short), will be used for this analysis. ATDM has already
This paper studies the optimal State support policy for an economy of retailers in which there is... more This paper studies the optimal State support policy for an economy of retailers in which there is a criminal organization (called the Gang) that tries to enforce a rake‐off scheme via punishment of reluctant retailers. The State aims at reducing the cost of reluctance through a suitable support policy (protection and insurance against physical damage) in order to undermine the Gang's threatening power and eventually to defeat it. Optimal support policies are determined for various rake‐off schemes under the assumption that retailers tend to abandon expensive strategies for cheaper ones.
DADI/WP_5/ 08, Universita IUAV di Venezia. , Jan 4, 2008
Starting at least from the seminal work of Alfred Marshall, the analysis of economic processes ha... more Starting at least from the seminal work of Alfred Marshall, the analysis of economic processes has emphasized the spatial function of 'clusters' and 'districts' within economic development – in terms of external economies on firms' localization and agglomeration – and thus impacts on the growth of productive sectors. Subsequently, these models have also been geared to set out full-fledged local development processes. After a few decades of analysis, agglomeration phenomena are still on the theoretical agenda more than ever, but the recent debate has introduced a significant novelty, underlining the importance of the cultural dimension and the growing complementarity between culture and local tangible and intangible assets in promoting the improvement of the economic, social and environmental dimensions. Research has thus focused on innovative paths of local development based on the spatial clustering of cultural investments and activities.
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