CORSI , Matteo

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The present work collects three essays on social choice and decision-making in the presence of multiple objectives and severe informational limitations. When feasible alternatives must be ordered according to their performance under various criteria, it is typically necessary to make use of a specific functional relation and assume the implied...

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We propose an innovative approach to monitor progress in wellbeing and sustainable development in the context of a multi-indicator situation. We analyze improvement trajectories over two time periods for nine European countries, showing the differences between consistent and unambiguous improvement and non comparable changes. We find that...

The Smart City is defined, among other things, by its ability "to measure and recognize potential problems just as they start to arise […] and act to make the necessary corrections." [1] This concept is borrowed from feedback control theory and reflects the centrality of timely, accurate and explicative information in the process of urban...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the representation of space in statistical models of urban crime. We argue that some important information represented by the properties of space is either lost or hardly interpretable if those properties are not explicitly introduced in the model as regressors. We illustrate the issue commenting on the...

In the last two decades, data-driven policymaking has gained more and more importance due to the larger availability of data (and, more recently, Big Data) for designing proper and timely economic and social policies. This larger availability of data has let decision makers have a deeper insight of complex socio-economic phenomena (e.g....