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Essay: Italy's weak areas and industrial districts coming out of the crisis
A descriptive and policy-oriented paper on industrial and spatial dynamics. It is pretty old (1999) but still maintains an interests for methodology and historical reasons.
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Essay: Analysing retailing opportunities and threats using agent-based simulation
As a valuable supporting tool for the marketing analysis of opportunities and threats on retail markets, an agent-based simulator is proposed, providing insights to answer to questions such as:
- What happens in the distribution landscape if we open a new outlet? Where should it be located? What profile (assortment composition, price levels, size) the new outlet should have?
- What if competitors open or close outlets? What should we then change in the profile of our outlets?
- What if the purchasing behaviour of consumer households changes? E.g. purchasing power and decision rules changes due to economic crisis.
- What if the cost structure changes? E.g. there is easy funding of outlets in less-favoured areas by municipalities and regional authorities.
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Essay: When the poor pay more than the rich
This paper presents eleven groups of reasons and conditions under which, painfully surprisingly, the poor has to pay a higher price than the rich for the same good or for the same fulfillment of a need. This is conducive to devise innovative anti-poverty policies and business practices.
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Essay: Prices and quantities
This paper explore mismatches between ECON101 textbook theory of economics and empirical evidence from the real world that you can collect by yourself, so to replicate (confirming, widening or rejecting) the proposed analyses, as a scientific approach would authorise and ask for.
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Essay: Towards a certain conceptualization of time
A sketch of a position over the concept of time (distinguishing a "logical time" from a "chronometric time"), fairly different from the neoclassical position, embedded in their formal models. This position is utilized to re-interpret an evolutionary model of long-term change of technological paradigms, due to Carlota Perez . [Italian language]
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Essay: The marketing mix of the hotel U Liky: an example of strategic choices leveraging product differentiation
By analyzing and evaluating the 7Ps marketing mix of the hotel U Lisky (product, price, promotion, place, people, process and physical evidence), the author build upon personal insights and literature (including this paper from EWI) to suggest future improvements.
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Is anything worth keeping in microeconomics?
A poignant critique of neoclassical microeconoimcs, and in particular supply and demand curves. Contrary to all good sense, microeconomists assume that all agents are price-takers, without saying who makes and changes these prices. But people trade with each other, and not withthe market.
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Some polemics in paid press followed after publication, to which the authors replied here.
A further essay is here .
Presentation: Grey networks for green - an empirical sociological analysis of the role of the organizations of the elderly for the environmental challenges (2018)
Essay: The rich and the poor
This short paper presents an exploration of the differences between the rich and the poor, as they result from a formal model .
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Essay: European space and West-East flows of tourists The role of Italy
The broad concept of "trajectory" covers a crucial phenomenon in the contemporary reshaping of European space. Dividing and defining European identities as they did, the traditional geographical borders are rapidly losing their role, since social, cultural and economic identities are increasingly to be defined in dynamic terms as evolution along a path. Published by the Polish Academy of Science, this short paper by Valentino Piana, underlines the meaning of tourism as a symptom of the emergence of new stronger trajectories, provides a quantitative analysis of data on West-East bilateral flows of tourists, supplies a longer discussion of the qualitative role of Italy in these flows and in their deeper meaning.
Presentation: Nurturing Chinas Strategic Emerging Industries and Green Products
through Five Innovative Economic Policies
Essay: Integrating healthcare and microfinance
Harnessing the strengths of two Sectors to improve health and alleviate poverty
Essay: Our Plan B for macro-economic recovery and structural change (31st October 2011)
EWI has been asked to sign this program to change the macro-economic policies to cope with the combined financial, economic, social and environmental crisis in UK and other countries. We accepted to sign a letter published by the Guardian and would like to offer to our readers' reflection the following policy essay:
100 leading economists have done the same.
Essay: Addressing a missing element in the Toledo Declaration with industrial ecology (May 2011)
A landmark of urban regeneration policy for EU, the Toledo Declaration, amidst the call for an integrated approach to address sustainability challenges by the declaration, exhibits a predominant focus on using local actions to solve local problems.
This lope-sided scope may give rise to policies that end up shifting problems beyond the local jurisdiction. Some of these problems can be deduced using key industrial ecology concepts, such as material flow analysis and life cycle assessment.
The author, a Singaporean scholar, provides a few possible strategies to cope with the issue, after a longitudinal study showing a specific case.