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    Recensione di Anna Baldini, A regola d’arte. Storia e geografia del campo letterario italiano (1902-1936) (Quodlibet, 2023)

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    Review of Anna Baldini, A regola d’arte: Storia e geografia del campo letterario italiano (1902-1936) (Quodlibet, 2023).  Recensione di Anna Baldini, A regola d’arte. Storia e geografia del campo letterario italiano (1902-1936) (Quodlibet, 2023).&nbsp

    Restoring credit market stability conditions in Italy: evidences on Loan and Bad Loan dynamics

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    In this paper we study the effect of credit deterioration on loan dynamics in the Italian non financial sector. The aim is to analyze, from a macroeconometric point of view, if credit growth rate is simply affected by bad loans stock variation or if there are other proxies of credit worsening that could have an influence on it. We use a factor model approach to capture all the pervasive factors that could affect the cyclical dynamics of the credit market, and we take into account the structural breaks induced by the Great Recession using quarterly data for the period 1998:4–2014:4. We reach the conclusion that new bad loans entry rate is the credit quality proxy that seems to express a signifi- cant and robust impact on lending dynamics. An increase of this ratio seems to cause a loans contraction after only 3 months and this evidence is useful in formulating some policy conclusions about banking system stability. We provide also results on new bad loans entry rate dynamics, finding a significant relation with GDP at infra-annual period (6 months)

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Introduzione. Governare le paure

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    Il capitolo presenta i contenuti generali del volume motivandone la scelta alla luce delle principali trasformazioni del sistema politico italiano nel corso del 2008. Vengono poi presentate alcune interpretazioni che fanno da sfondo alla scelta degli eventi trattati nel volume e si considera inoltre il significato di alcuni altri avvenimenti non specificamente coperti nel volume

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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