/library/oar/handle/123456789/68928 2025-12-25T00:37:54Z 2025-12-25T00:37:54Z Gemmiti, Roberta Salvati, Luca Ciccarelli, Silvia /library/oar/handle/123456789/69117 2021-02-12T13:04:13Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Global city or ordinary city? Rome as a case study Authors: Gemmiti, Roberta; Salvati, Luca; Ciccarelli, Silvia Abstract: The present paper debates on the factors of urban competitiveness in ‘ordinary cities’ and their links with urban planning. By analyzing the case of Rome (Italy), we examine the impact that planning practices, deriving from the mainstream literature centered on ‘global cities’, may have on cities that are not supported by an advanced system of governance. In Rome, policies promoting urban development were mainly focused on ‘global’ city models which result in the oversimplification of urban competitiveness issues. Planning strategies divorced from the present territorial context may have social and environmental effects and prove the importance of policies facing with ‘ordinary cities’ and referring to ‘ordinary geographies’.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rontos, Konstantinos Sioussiouras, Petros Vavouras, Ioannis S. /library/oar/handle/123456789/69116 2021-02-12T13:03:47Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An incentive model of corruption in the Mediterranean and Balkan region Authors: Rontos, Konstantinos; Sioussiouras, Petros; Vavouras, Ioannis S. Abstract: The study considers the determinants of corruption in the 23 Mediterranean and Balkan countries where it is widely recognized that this phenomenon is widespread. Starting from the general hypothesis that the extent of corruption in any country is a combination of motives and opportunities, our scope is to examine the most important economic, political and social factors that determine corruption in this region. We accept that motives are determined by the level of human development, while opportunities by the degree of government effectiveness, which in turn is determined by the level of economic development and the existing political system. We show that the level of corruption is affected by the degree of human development, while the degree of government effectiveness affects crucially the level of corruption. On its turn, government effectiveness is mainly determined by the level of economic development and the existing political system. Improving government effectiveness, increasing the levels of human and economic development and establishing a more democratic political system form therefore the pillars of any anticorruption strategies in these countries.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ferreira, Manuel Alberto M. Andrade, Marina Peixoto Matos, Maria Cristina Filipe, José António Pacheco Coelho, Manuel /library/oar/handle/123456789/69115 2021-02-12T13:03:17Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Kuhn-Tucker’s Theorem - the fundamental result in convex programming applied to finance and economic sciences Authors: Ferreira, Manuel Alberto M.; Andrade, Marina; Peixoto Matos, Maria Cristina; Filipe, José António; Pacheco Coelho, Manuel Abstract: The optimization problems are not so important now in the field of production. But in the minimization risk problems, in profits maximization problems, in Marketing Research, in Finance, they are completely actual. An important example is the problem of minimizing portfolio risk, demanding a certain mean return. The main mathematical tool to solve these problems is the convex programming and the main result is the Kuhn-Tucker Theorem. In this work that result mathematical fundaments, in the context of real Hilbert spaces, are presented.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Filipe, José António Ferreira, Manuel Alberto M. Coelho, Manuel Pacheco Moura, Diogo /library/oar/handle/123456789/69113 2021-02-12T13:02:44Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: FDI political risks : the new international context Authors: Filipe, José António; Ferreira, Manuel Alberto M.; Coelho, Manuel Pacheco; Moura, Diogo Abstract: The understanding of country risk for investors is extremely important. Considering the current international context on geostrategic countries’ environment this subject gains additional relevance. The growing global nature of investments makes the country’s risk measurement essential in terms of economic consequences. The international country’s political risk show that companies investments abroad need an involving and multifaceted organization. This paper intends to analyze the conditions of attractiveness and the risks in a political context of a country in which a company intends to invest. The politics’ stability of a country’s government is often determinant to have investments, particularly the ones from an international company. The complexity of this analysis requires the understanding of the way the interrelationships are made. The case of Latin America countries is presented and the new context of China is also analyzed.

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