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treatrew: a user-written STATA routine for estimating Average Treatment Effects by reweighting on propensity score
No full textRT 043; Reweighting is a popular statistical technique to deal with inference in presence of a non-random sample. In the literature, various reweighting estimators have been proposed. This paper presents the user-written STATA command treatrew implementing the reweighting on propensity score estimator as proposed by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983) in their seminal article, where parameters’ standard errors can be obtained either analytically or via bootstrapping. Since an implementation in STATA of this estimator with analytic standard errors was still missing, this paper (and the ADO-file and HELP-file accompanying it) aims at filling this gap by providing the community with an easy-to-use implementation of the reweighting on propensity score method, as a valuable tool for estimating treatment effects under selection on observables
Dynamics of the steel and long-term equilibrium hypothesis across leading geo-economic players: empirical evidence for supporting a policy formulation
No full textWP 02/2012; The aim of this study is twofold – on the one hand, to report a flow analysis based on historical trends of steel, from 1997 to 2008, across some leading geo-economic players; on the other, the analysis of long-term relationship between steel consumption and economic growth by the sensitivity of the demand for steel consumption to a change in the national income. Results show that steel production and consumption have different economic behaviour across some countries: China and Italy have higher average annual growth of production of crude (CHN 9.75%; ITA 0.83%), steel crude use equivalent (CHN 8.37%; ITA 1.95%) and steel use finished products (CHN 9.38%; ITA 1.65%), whereas the US have higher average annual growth of imports (13.23%) and China of exports of semi-finished/finished steel products (20.38%). In addition, the estimated average elasticity of consumption of steel on national income statistical per countries, based on unidirectional causality that runs from national income to steel consumption, shows de facto positive values, except in UK economies. The analysis here provides main information on the industrial structure of countries and for designing industrial policies aimed to support patterns of economic growth in current turbulent and fast-changing markets
Step by step installation guide of a digital preservation infrastructure
No full textRT 042; The Ceris-CNR project of digital preservation infrastructure has been committed by Bess (Social Science Electronic Library of Piemonte) for years 2011-2012 sponsored by Compagnia di San Paolo of Turin. Ceris-CNR role is to handle all the post-scan of the digitalization, for this purpose it has deployed the software and server platforms of the repository and also the web portal for the presentation, research and consulting. This report is a guide of step by step followed to build the digital archive infrastructure
Rapporto sulla contraffazione nel Torinese quinta edizione, 2012. Indagine sul fenomeno della contraffazione e delle altre frodi alimentari in provincia di Torino
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Rapporto sulla contraffazione nel Torinese.Torino. STE
Atlante della contabilità ambientale del Piemonte : geografia e metabolismo dell'impronta ecologica
No full textConcept cars and the development of the bleucar project
No full textWP 12/2012; Many scholars are discussing signs and company strategies that seems to confirm that the transition to cleaner vehicles is starting. Freyssenet (2011) announced a new automobile revolution and Rifkin (2011) a third industrial revolution. How could industrial design be a field of study and discussion about ideas related to an automobile revolution? What are the links between an automobile revolution and a third industrial revolution? The prospective design approach would be used to analyse the new orientation taken in the automotive industry. Concept cars and new experiments are giving signs about the evolution of the automotive sector towards new forms of mobility. The Bleucar and Autolib in Paris, an innovative electric car sharing system is the outgrowth of an historical process. The paper examines how design of concept cars introduced new representations and changing social uses of the cars in the 1990’s. It will be described the first step of the Bleucar’s project, the design research, the actors and the companies involved in the project since 2005. Finally, the paper analyses actors and institutional interactions between public and private partners for setting up the Autolib mobility system in Paris. The conclusions present some reflections about the issue of new mobility systems for the automotive industry
Outlining policy responses to stimulate automotive car demand by environmental impact reduction
No full textWP 17/2012; The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative approach for outlining policy responses to stimulate the automotive industry. The scientific community has been involved by the Delphi method in order to collect and convey perspectives and impressions and define a number of financially viable proposals. The panel of experts takes the view that traditional industrial policy measures denote limited effects to stimulate car demand, in a context of macro-economic downturn. By contrast, the panel also believe incentives for car demand are important for environmental purposes, for safety and for the diversification of energy sources. The policy measures proposed are fundamental from the viewpoint of overturning path dependencies in the automotive industry which impede the diffusion of alternative vehicles, with respect to business models and consumer attitudes