LEPORATTI , Lucia

In recent years, the Italian gambling market has exploded, leading Italy to become the largest European gambling market and the fourth largest worldwide but the literature on the topic is still limited. This study analyses gambling demand across Italian regions in order to detect how the socio-economic status of a region impacts the demand for...

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Big Data are a top subject in international research articles and a vast debate is taking place on their actual capability of being used to complement or even substitute official statistics surveys and social indicators in particular. In this paper we analyse the metadata of the Scopus database of academic articles on Big Data and we show that...

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The spatial analysis of Urban Crime is generally made using crime mapping techniques, which are mainly representations of crime dispersion over a specific urban area without any statistical modelling of its dependence from the urban structure of the city or any group of socio-demographic variables. Using a set of measurements (called Space...

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During the last decade most of the European countries started a process of liberalization of gambling with the aim of fighting against illegal gambling and collecting an increasing amount of tax revenues. In this paper, after providing a comparison on main gambling institutional and tax differences across a selection of European countries, we...

The main techniques used for the spatial analysis of Urban Crime can generally be traced to crime mapping techniques, which are mere representations of crime dispersion over a specific urban area without any statistical modeling of its correlation with the urban structure of the city or any group of sociodemographic and economic variables. In...

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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...

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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...