8073 research outputs found
Sort by
FINANZIAMENTI ESTERNI E PRODUTTIVITA' TOTALE DEI FATTORI NEL SETTORE DELLA RICERCA: IL CASO DEL CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE [Scientific productivity and external funding, the case of CNR institutes]
No full textWP 07/2011; The recent reform of the Italian CNR has increased the focus on external collaboration and decreased the amount of government funds. That process bring research institutes to operate on the market in order to obtain the necessary resources, but causes also a re-allocation of efforts among different research products. This paper present an application of the Directional Distance Function (DDF) model to build productivity indicators able to consider two different kinds of scientific outputs: someone more important than others from a scientific view point. Financial constraints do not allow institutes to freely dispose of their output portfolio and less important outputs have to be produced in order to obtain external funds. In a regime of limited human and temporal resources a substitution process cannot be avoided, then a cost in term of desirable scientific outputs is imposed. An estimate of that opportunity cost is here proposed, also with a comparison of standard efficiency measures.An evidence of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) trend during the 2004-2007 period is provided by applying Malmquist-Luenberger indexes and standard indicators. From a comparison of the two set of results some different conclusions on the 2003 Reform can be drawn
Programmazione integrata e politiche territoriali: profili concettuali, esplorazioni progettuali
No full textContributi di ricerca ; n.244/201
Storage in HA: Cluster attivo/passivo open-source
No full textRT 037; Ceris-CNR IT Office manages the CNR Piedmont network infrastructure and provides network services for about 420 users. The development of a large and reliable storage system is the answer to two needs: one from users, who must deal with ever more larger digital objects for personal and research use, and one from need to have a space system engineering to store virtual machines and backup copies. To contain expenditure and without detracting from the reliability of the system, we choose to concentrate financial commitment on quality hardware and realize the whole project with open-source software, specifically the main components are: Linux, DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device), Corosync and Pacemaker
Le strategie finanziarie dei comuni piemontesi 2009-2011
No full textContributi di ricerca ; n.243/201
Accordo di Programma Quadro in materia di Sanità della Regione Piemonte : Linee di indirizzo per un programma di salute pubblica
No full textContributi di ricerca ; n.238/201
Agency Issues in a Family Controlled Corporate Governance Structure The Case of Italy
No full textWP 06/2011; This study provides empirical evidence on the relationship between dividend payout ratios, executive compensation and agency costs in Italy. Corporate governance in Italy is distinguished by the fact that a large number of Italian firms are family controlled, which may theoretically reduce asymmetry of information and associated agency costs. Using a panel of listed manufacturing firms we find evidence that family control plays a significant role in resolving agency issues, i.e. that increases in family control of the firm lead to a higher dividend payout. Nevertheless, as we also find that managerial compensations are negatively related to dividend payout ratios, even in this family controlled environment, dividends do play their role in mitigating agency problems
Informaires. Piemonte economico sociale 2010. N.40, giugno 2011
No full textSemestrale dell'Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemont