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Drivers of regional efficiency differentials in Italy: Technical inefficiency or allocative distortions?
No full textInterregional redistribution and risk sharing through public budget. The case of Italy in times of crisis (2000–2016)
No full textSince the post-war period, large differences in economic performance of Italian regions have brought the public sector to play a predominant role in interregional redistribution and risk sharing. However, the recent Great Crisis may have changed this attitude. The comparison of regional Net Fiscal Flows in the periods 2000–2008 and 2009–2016 shows that in the aftermath of the crisis fiscal policies lost substantial part of their effectiveness in both interregional long-run redistribution and short-run income stabilization. Over time, the role of government in providing support to poorer regions and to areas more severely hit by the economic slump becomes less significant and sometimes even perverse, amplifying rather than counterbalancing regional differences in per capita income and financial capacity
Capitale sociale e differenze regionali nella vaccinazione per il COVID-19. C’è un legame?
Get PDFL’obiettivo dell’articolo è analizzare se le differenze tra regioni italiane nei tassi di vaccinazione per il COVID-19 sono spiegate da differenze nei livelli di capitale sociale. I risultati mostrano che gli italiani non hanno deciso di vaccinarsi rispondendo a caratteristiche specifiche dei contesti regionali. La natura altruistica della scelta di vaccinarsi viene testata facendo ricorso a sei diverse misure di capitale sociale, solo una delle quali risulta statisticamente significativa (e con il segno atteso). Questi risultati supportano l’idea che i fattori culturali possono aver inciso a livello individuale ma non emergono differenze regionali catturate dalle proxy del capitale social
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Regional Net Fiscal Balances in Italy at the Time of Enhanced Differentiated Autonomy
No full textThis paper provides new evidence on regional and macro-regional Net Fiscal Balances (nfbs) in Italy and offers an assessment of the interregional redistributive action carried out by the public sector over the period 2000-2021. We find that the South and Islands regions exhibit substantial, persistent, and structural negative nfbs, while the North-West regions persistently display large positive nfbs. The North-East and Central regions occupy an intermediate position. Regional surpluses and deficits narrow during the financial and pandemic crises, possibly indicating reduced interregional redistribution during difficult times. Furthermore, a decreasing trend in the deficits of Southern regions emerges, possibly due to a declining progressivity of the Italian tax system and a persisting expenditure gap. Regarding redistribution intensity, public policies carry out a limited action, with a slight tendency toward a reduction of redistribution over time
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