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Data for: How Family Ties Affect Trust, Tax Morale and Underground Economy
No full textThis STATA DTA file contains an unbalanced panel of maximun 73 countries observed over a maximum of 20 years used for the analysis conducted in the paper "How Family Ties Affect Underground Economy Tax Morale and Trust" by Mauro Marè, Antonello Motroni e Francesco Porcelli
La valutazione dell'efficienza nelle forme associate dei Comuni italiani: la lezione dei fabbisogni standard
No full textQuesto lavoro utilizza i dati raccolti per l’elaborazione dei fabbisogni standard, di recente pubblicati in opencivitas.it, per far luce su alcuni aspetti concernenti il processo di associazionismo intercomunale evidenziando, dapprima, la distribuzione sul territorio delle diverse forme associative e, successivamente, in che modo dai modelli utilizzati per la stima dei fabbisogni standard emerge se la gestione in forma associata di questi servizi ha generato risparmi di spesa. In particolare risulta come nei servizi comunali caratterizzati da significative economie di scala la valutazione dei guadagni di efficienza derivanti dalle unioni potrebbe essere distorta se le unioni sono confrontate con i comuni unitari a gestione diretta di pari caratteristiche (soprattutto in termini di dimensione demografica). Al contrario, tali guadagni di efficienza, qualora presenti, emergerebbero correttamente se i comuni partecipanti all’unione (e non l’unione stessa) venissero confrontati con i comuni a gestione diretta non coinvolti in forme associative
Measuring Horizontal Fiscal Imbalances: the case of Italian Municipalities, Quaderni del Dipartimento, Southern Europe Research in Economic Studies, SERIES n. 49, Dipartimento di Scienze economiche e metodi matematici, Università degli Studi di Bari, accepted for pubblication by Local Government Studies
No full textCriticità finanziarie e insufficienza di risorse nei Comuni italiani
No full textThe aim of this paper is to empirically analyse the main factors affecting the probability of financial distress in Italian municipalities. On the basis of a cross-section database including all the municipalities which experienced or not financial distress in 2012-2018 we investigate in particular the role of structural deficiency of financial resources in making some municipality more financially vulnerable than others. The estimation results show that municipalities that suffered from a level of total resources lower than what is required to provide public services in their jurisdiction at standard levels as measured by Standard expenditure needs indicators are, ceteris paribus, more prone to run into financial distress.L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è di analizzare sul piano empirico i principali fattori che influenzano la probabilità di default dei comuni italiani. L’analisi si basa su di un dataset originale che comprende tutti i enti che hanno registrato situazioni di criticità finanziarie nel periodo 2012-2018. In particolare l’analisi intende valutare quanto l’inadeguatezza strutturale delle risorse disponibili rispetto ai bisogni misurati dai fabbisogni standard possa aver contribuito a rendere alcuni Comuni più vulnerabili di altri sul piano finanziario. I risultati delle stime mostrano che le amministrazioni locali in carenza di risorse rispetto al proprio fabbisogno standard presentano ceteris paribus maggiori probabilità di incorrere in una crisi finanziaria
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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