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View article: A panel regression approach to the role of economic policy uncertainty in the energy transition: what to expect with the return of trumponomics?
A panel regression approach to the role of economic policy uncertainty in the energy transition: what to expect with the return of trumponomics? Open
Does economic policy uncertainty affect the climate challenge? Answering this question is relevant in times of high uncertainties. Nonetheless, evidence is limited about the mechanisms linking economic policy uncertainty to the renewable e…
View article: Dynamic spatial regimes for spatial panel data
Dynamic spatial regimes for spatial panel data Open
Spatial heterogeneity in terms of spatially-varying coefficients is often not properly considered in modeling economic data. This neglect might cause serious problems in the estimation of the parameters of a model specification when group-…
View article: Evolution and Optimization of the HALP Formula for Predicting Free Flap Failure: A Progressive Analysis of Predictive Accuracy
Evolution and Optimization of the HALP Formula for Predicting Free Flap Failure: A Progressive Analysis of Predictive Accuracy Open
Background: Reconstructive surgery with free flaps is a fundamental component in head and neck surgery, but flap failure remains a significant concern. The hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte, and platelet (HALP) score is a prognostic factor c…
View article: Handling Out‐of‐Sample Areas to Estimate the Unemployment Rate at Local Labour Market Areas in Italy
Handling Out‐of‐Sample Areas to Estimate the Unemployment Rate at Local Labour Market Areas in Italy Open
Summary Unemployment rate estimates for small areas are used to efficiently support the distribution of services and the allocation of resources, grants and funding. A Fay–Herriot type model is the most used tool to obtain these estimates.…
View article: The optimal size of territorial units in the outsourcing of waste service: An empirical approach
The optimal size of territorial units in the outsourcing of waste service: An empirical approach Open
This study provides new insights into the relation between the size of the territorial units for which the provision of waste services is entrusted to external operators and their efficiency. The need for a deeper investigation of this rel…
View article: Constrained optimization for addressing spatial heterogeneity in principal component analysis: an application to composite indicators
Constrained optimization for addressing spatial heterogeneity in principal component analysis: an application to composite indicators Open
Principal component analysis, in its standard version, might not be appropriate for the analysis of spatial data. Particularly, the presence of spatial heterogeneity has been recognized as a possible source of misspecification for the deri…
View article: Stochastic frontier estimation through parametric modelling of quantile regression coefficients
Stochastic frontier estimation through parametric modelling of quantile regression coefficients Open
Stochastic frontiers are a very popular tool used to compare production units in terms of efficiency. The parameters of this class of models are usually estimated through the use of the classic maximum likelihood method even, in the last y…
View article: <b>Spbsampling</b>: An <i>R</i> Package for Spatially Balanced Sampling
<b>Spbsampling</b>: An <i>R</i> Package for Spatially Balanced Sampling Open
The basic idea underpinning the theory of spatially balanced sampling is that units closer to each other provide less information about a target of inference than units farther apart. Therefore, it should be desirable to select a sample we…
View article: Spatial Econometric Methods in Agricultural Economics Using R
Spatial Econometric Methods in Agricultural Economics Using R Open
The land cover/use databases are digital maps that provide the basic information for knowing and managing the territory at various scales, with particular reference to agriculture, food security, natural resources and environment protectio…
View article: Identification of spatially constrained homogeneous clusters of COVID‐19 transmission in Italy
Identification of spatially constrained homogeneous clusters of COVID‐19 transmission in Italy Open
The paper introduces an approach to identify a set of spatially constrained homogeneous areas maximally homogeneous in terms of epidemic trends. The proposed hierarchical algorithm is based on the Dynamic Time Warping distances between epi…
View article: The Vatican’s Role in the Finaly Children’s Kidnapping Case
The Vatican’s Role in the Finaly Children’s Kidnapping Case Open
No case more fully embodies the tensions between the Roman Catholic Church and Europe’s traumatized Jews in the wake of the Shoah than the battle over the return of the two French Jewish orphans of the Holocaust, Robert and Gérald Finaly. …
View article: The identification of spatially constrained homogeneous clusters of\n Covid-19 transmission
The identification of spatially constrained homogeneous clusters of\n Covid-19 transmission Open
The paper introduces an approach to identify a set of spatially constrained\nhomogeneous areas maximally homogeneous in terms of epidemic trends. The\nproposed hierarchical algorithm is based on the Dynamic TimeWarping distances\nbetween e…
View article: The identification of spatially constrained homogeneous clusters of Covid-19 transmission
The identification of spatially constrained homogeneous clusters of Covid-19 transmission Open
The paper introduces an approach to identify a set of spatially constrained homogeneous areas maximally homogeneous in terms of epidemic trends. The proposed hierarchical algorithm is based on the Dynamic TimeWarping distances between epid…
View article: Mapping GDP and PPPs at Sub-National Level Through Earth Observation in Eastern Europe and CIS Countries
Mapping GDP and PPPs at Sub-National Level Through Earth Observation in Eastern Europe and CIS Countries Open
Following the line of research, originated from the paper by Henderson et al. (2012), this article focuses on how "observations from the above", in the form of night-lights satellite data, might contribute in mapping at very fine geographi…
View article: Madri, figlie, mogli, schiave. Le istanze di liberazione inoltrate all’Arciconfraternita del Gonfalone (Secolo XVIII)
Madri, figlie, mogli, schiave. Le istanze di liberazione inoltrate all’Arciconfraternita del Gonfalone (Secolo XVIII) Open
The presence and the status of the Christian slaves in Mediterranean during modern period have been the subject of many and deep studies and publications. But the characteristics of the women’s role in complex system of redemption of slave…
View article: Modelling spatial regimes in farms technologies
Modelling spatial regimes in farms technologies Open
We exploit the information derived from geographical coordinates to\nendogenously identify spatial regimes in technologies that are the result of a\nvariety of complex, dynamic interactions among site-specific environmental\nvariables and …
View article: An Investigation of Global Reporting Initiative Performance Indicators in Corporate Sustainability Reports: Greek, Italian and Spanish Evidence
An Investigation of Global Reporting Initiative Performance Indicators in Corporate Sustainability Reports: Greek, Italian and Spanish Evidence Open
This study has two main purposes. First, it explores the performance indicators disclosed in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)-based Sustainability Reports (SRs) produced by the companies of three different countries: Italy, Spain and …
View article: Fast Selection of Spatially Balanced Samples
Fast Selection of Spatially Balanced Samples Open
Sampling from very large spatial populations is challenging. The solutions suggested in recent literature on this subject often require that the randomly selected units are well distributed across the study region by using complex algorith…
View article: A two-step approach to account for unobserved spatial heterogeneity
A two-step approach to account for unobserved spatial heterogeneity Open
Empirical analysis in economics often faces the difficulty that the data is\ncorrelated and heterogeneous in some unknown form. Spatial parametric\napproaches have been widely used to account for dependence structures, but the\nproblem of …
View article: Spatial Heterogeneity in House Price Models: An Iterative Locally Weighted Regression Approach
Spatial Heterogeneity in House Price Models: An Iterative Locally Weighted Regression Approach Open
Empirical analysis in economics often faces the difficulty that the data is correlated and heterogeneous in some unknown form. Spatial parametric approaches have been widely used to account for dependence structures, but the problem of dir…
View article: Modelling Endogenous Spatial Regimes in Farms Technologies
Modelling Endogenous Spatial Regimes in Farms Technologies Open
Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity is a fundamental challenge in empirical research, as failing to do so can produce model misspecification and preclude causal inference. In this article, we adopt a two-step procedure to deal with un…
View article: A Bayesian Approach to Parameter Estimation in the Presence of Spatial Missing Data
A Bayesian Approach to Parameter Estimation in the Presence of Spatial Missing Data Open
The missing data problem has been widely addressed in the literature. The traditional methods for handling missing data may be not suited to spatial data, which can exhibit distinctive structures of dependence and/or heterogeneity. As a po…