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Greta Falavigna

EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS
From December 2007 to current: Researcher of Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth of Italian National Council of Research, Moncalieri (TO). SECS/P06.
November 2006-November 2007: Fellowship on “Credit Risk of Firms”, University of Eastern Piedmont "A. Avogadro" (Novara, Italy) and Ceris-CNR (Moncalieri, To).
September 2003: Fellowship on “Metrics to compare the performances of the organizations operating in water service integrated of ATO in Piedmont” at University of Eastern Piedmont "A. Avogadro", Novara, Italy
Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Fraquelli

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Teacher of Economics and Firm Organisation, Polytechnic of Turin.
Second level Italian degree in mechanical engineering (from 2008 to present)
Teacher of Economics and Corporate Finance, Polytechnic of Turin.
Second level Italian degree in managerial engineering (from 2015 to present)
Teacher of Political Economy, Polytechnic of Turin. First level Italian degree in industrial production ingineeting (from 2017 to present)
Tutor of Managerial Economics at School of Management of Turin (from 2005 to 2008)

AWARDS
National Scientific Qualification in the following scientific-disciplinary sectors:
• 13/B4 - Economia degli intermediari finanziari e Finanza Aziendale (associate professor position, from 12/30/2014 to 30/12/2020; 2013 Announcement – DD n. 161/2013)
• 13/A2 – Politica Economica (associate professor position, from 12/23/2014 to 12/23/2020; 2013 Announcement – DD n. 161/2013);
• 13/A4 – Eonomia Applicacta (associate professor position, from 04/04/2017 to 04/04/2023; 2016 Announcement – DD n. 1532/2016)
Member of the Editorial Board (Scientific Committee) of Working Paper of Public Health [ISSN 2279-9761]. It is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal published by PAGEPress®, Pavia, Italy. (http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/wpph/pages/view/Board)

Responsible of CNR-Ceris research line “Complex and non-parametric models for the analysis of firm” (2009 year)

Qualification for teaching and linked registration to the register of scholars and external exsperts of the Polytechnic of Turin for teaching (SSD: ING-IND35; SECS-P/01; SECS-P/06; SECS-P/07; SECS-P/08). Validity: 2018/2019; 2019/2020; 2020/2021

Member of SIEPI - Italian Society of Industrial Economics and Politics

EDUCATION
Present: Enrolled in the Master of Science in Modern, Classic and Compared Linguistics (Bachelor class: LM14), University of Eastern Piedmont (UNIUPO), Vercelli
April 2016 Bachelor degree in Literature (archaeological and historic-artistic curriculum. Bachelor class: L-10). University of Eastern Piedmont (UNIUPO), Vercelli
Score: 107/110
Dissertation: “Il cibo nelle fiabe e nelle narrazioni di autori piemontesi” (Field: Linguistics)
Visor: Prof. Giacomo Ferrari.
March 2007 Ph-D. in Economics and Technology Management ar University of Bergamo.
Ph.D. Thesis: “Artificial neural network tools for default risk analysis and rating judgements of enterprises”. Supervisor: Dott. Secondo Rolfo, Ceris-CNR director.
May 2006 Visiting period at Cass Business School of London with Gate to Growth Network funds for studying the use of artificial neural networks in credit risk of firms. Referent Professor R. Batchelor.
May 2003-August 2003 Visiting Student at the University of Eastern Piedmont "A. Avogadro", Novara, Italy. Support activity to teaching (SECS-P/08 and SECS-P/09) and analysis of public transports.
April 2003 Laurea degree in Economics, University of Eastern Piedmont "A. Avogadro", Novara, Italy
Score: 110/110
Dissertation: “Modelli dinamici nell’analisi di bilancio: un caso aziendale” (Field: Management and control)
Visor: Prof. Ettore Cascioli.
Second visor: Dott. Fabrizio Erbetta.

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The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, May 1, 2023

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, May 25, 2023

Journal of Small Business Management, Nov 30, 2022

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, Oct 9, 2021

Background: The problem of correct inpatient scheduling is extremely significant for healthcare m... more Background: The problem of correct inpatient scheduling is extremely significant for healthcare management. Extended length of stay can have negative effects on the supply of healthcare treatments, reducing patient accessibility and creating missed opportunities to increase hospital revenues by means of other treatments and additional hospitalizations. Methods: Adopting available national reference values and focusing on a Department of Internal and Emergency Medicine located in the NorthWest of Italy, this work assesses prediction models of hospitalizations with length of stay longer than the selected benchmarks and thresholds. The prediction models investigated in this case study are based on Artificial Neural Networks and examine risk factors for prolonged hospitalizations in 2018. With respect current alternative approaches (e.g., logistic models), Artificial Neural Networks give the opportunity to identify whether the model will maximize specificity or sensitivity. Results: Our sample includes administrative data extracted from the hospital database, collecting information on more than 16,000 hospitalizations between January 2018 and December 2019. Considering the overall department in 2018, 40% of the hospitalizations lasted more than the national average, and almost 3.74% were outliers (i.e., they lasted more than the threshold). According to our results, the adoption of the prediction models in 2019 could reduce the average length of stay by up to 2 days, guaranteeing more than 2000 additional hospitalizations in a year. Conclusions: The proposed models might represent an effective tool for administrators and medical professionals to predict the outcome of hospital admission and design interventions to improve hospital efficiency and effectiveness.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Sep 1, 2014

Emergency departments are characterized by the need for quick diagnosis under pressure. To select... more Emergency departments are characterized by the need for quick diagnosis under pressure. To select the most appropriate treatment, a series of rules to support decision-making has been offered by scientific societies. The effectiveness of these rules affects the appropriateness of treatment and the hospitalization of patients. Analyzing a sample of 1844 patients and focusing on the decision to hospitalize a patient after a syncope event to prevent severe short-term outcomes, this work proposes a new algorithm based on neural networks. Artificial neural networks are a non-parametric technique with the well-known ability to generalize behaviors, and they can thus predict severe short-term outcomes with pre-selected levels of sensitivity and specificity. This innovative technique can outperform the traditional models, since it does not require a specific functional form, i.e., the data are not supposed to be distributed following a specific design. Based on our results, the innovative model can predict hospitalization with a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 79%, significantly increasing the appropriateness of medical treatment and, as a result, hospital efficiency. According to Garson's Indexes, the most significant variables are exertion, the absence of symptoms, and the patient's gender. On the contrary, cardio-vascular history, hypertension, and age have the lowest impact on the determination of the subject's health status. The main application of this new technology is the adoption of smart solutions (e.g., a mobile app) to customize the stratification of patients admitted to emergency departments (ED)s after a syncope event. Indeed, the adoption of these smart solutions gives the opportunity to customize risk stratification according to the specific clinical case (i.e., the patient's health status) and the physician's decision-making process (i.e., the desired levels of sensitivity and specificity). Moreover, a decision-making process based on these smart solutions might ensure a more effective use of available resources, improving the management of syncope patients and reducing the cost of inappropriate treatment and hospitalization.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2017

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2014

This paper presents an analysis of relationships between collaborations and scientific outputs of... more This paper presents an analysis of relationships between collaborations and scientific outputs of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). In order to evaluate collaborations among CNR institutes and between CNR institutes and universities, social network metrics have been applied with the aim to measure relationships and to understand if to cooperate allows researchers to publish higher quality outputs, improving their labour productivity. Research institutes are considered as nodes of the internal collaboration network, following the main aim of recent reform. Collaborations are stimulated not only by governments with the aim to have knowledge spillovers but they can improve citations and also their reputation. This last is extremely relevant for winning competitions, calls or grants. In this paper authors used data of scientific publications related to all institutes of CNR for the 2007 year and they ask to the question if researchers that publish more and better are those that collaborate more.

Journal of public affairs, Jun 26, 2023

This work investigates the Italian judicial system and discusses the designing of a policy reform... more This work investigates the Italian judicial system and discusses the designing of a policy reform to boost the efficiency of courts, considering the human resources available as well as the expenditure generated by the process to deliver justice. The authors present the benchmarks and shed light on how policy makers embarking on such a process of reform may be misled by inappropriate model definition. In detail, the authors propose a comparative analysis of technical efficiency (TE) scores computed using data envelopment analysis, adopting the same output (number of settled cases) and two alternative sets of inputs (judicial expenditure and human resources). According to the results, without considering the information extracted from the two complementary benchmark analyses, policy makers might be misled in the reform process. Regarding the elements that affect the performance of courts, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of judicial districts by working on judicial procedures. Hence, these are the domains where interventions by policy makers may prove successful. As for policy implications, the models and benchmarks presented here could be used to devise a reform of the judicial system aimed at enhancing its TE, while also keeping public expenditure under control.

Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society

Purpose The recent literature on corporate governance and gender diversity underlines that those ... more Purpose The recent literature on corporate governance and gender diversity underlines that those differences may go beyond a pure or direct effect on firms’ performance and in this vein, this study aims to investigate whether the presence of women in leading positions can affect the credit rating indicators. Design/methodology/approach The authors focus on Italian manufacturing firms, as well as small and medium firms (SMEs), that are often under-represented in previous studies, despite their importance in many economies. The authors extract data on directors and top managers as well as rating classes and credit score indicators, and using a fixed-effects model, the authors analyze the relationship between credit risk mitigation and the inclusion of women among top managers, consistently with the rising empirical literature focused on risk perceptions. Findings The authors find a significant negative relationship between female participation in top management and credit risk, with a...

Journal of Applied Economics

The role of formal business networking in SMEs is receiving more attention from scholars and prac... more The role of formal business networking in SMEs is receiving more attention from scholars and practitioners. However, several aspects remain unclear, including if and how, corporate sustainability approaches are implemented and aligned within such networks, mostly created for competitiveness and resource efficiency purpose. With the aim of filling this gap in the literature over Small Business Social Responsibility, an empirical investigation is proposed by analyzing 389 Formalized Network Contracts and their original legal document, following Bocken et al. (2014) business model archetypes and NBS (2012) studies on sustainable innovation and, normative-making perspectives. Findings include the addition of a new general aims for such FNC that is the creation and enablement of clusters, following the perspective of Creation of Shared Value. In addition, we demonstrate that FNC is a suitable tool for micro, SMEs, and individual entrepreneurs to meet sustainability issues introducing eco...

Europace, Dec 24, 2016

There is no universally accepted tool for the risk stratification of syncope patients in the Emer... more There is no universally accepted tool for the risk stratification of syncope patients in the Emergency Department. The aim of this study was to investigate the short-term predictive accuracy of an artificial neural network (ANN) in stratifying the risk in this patient group.

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: The main objective of this paper is to provide a concise overview of the fisheries and aquacult... more : The main objective of this paper is to provide a concise overview of the fisheries and aquaculture industries at European and Italian level. The European Commission has recently highlighted the necessity to evaluate the performance of these sectors due to the decline of fish stocks. For this reason, strict rules oblige the Member States to manage fish stocks safeguarding natural resources and, at the same time, the productivity of the industry. The present study aims at providing not only a comprehensive analysis but also at offering remarks and observations helpful to understand the role of this economic activity in Italy and Europe.Length: 24 pages Keywords : fishery, aquaculture, public policies

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2021

Abstract This manuscript focuses on the Italian judicial system and on how to shape a policy refo... more Abstract This manuscript focuses on the Italian judicial system and on how to shape a policy reform aimed at increasing court efficiency, taking the budget externalities generated by this production process into account. On the one hand, the authors identify the benchmarks and main drivers of judicial inefficiency, while, on the other hand, they show how incorrect model definition may mislead policy makers tackling this reform process, based on an analysis of the Directional Distance Function with and without bad outputs. According to the results, incorrect model definition causes a type I error equal to 17.99% and a type II error equal to 25.18%. As for the determinants of court performance, the current staff structure and civil procedures are the main drivers of inefficiency and, consequently, the areas in which policy makers could successfully take action. In view of the EU’s recovery fund aimed at alleviating the economic impact of Covid-19, policy implications concern the opportunity to adopt these results and the collected benchmarks to drive one of the most important structural reforms in Italy, by leveraging the financial resources of the Next Generation EU package. Such a reform might be able to improve courts’ technical efficiency, while also maintaining the public budget under control.

This study proposes a cost-effectiveness analysis concerning the implementation of a tool to chec... more This study proposes a cost-effectiveness analysis concerning the implementation of a tool to check for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in Intensive Care. VAP is a sub-type of hospital-acquired pneumonia which occurs in people receiving mechanical ventilation. An empirical analysis is performed to estimate the effectiveness of a specific procedure to prevent VAP (i.e. Ventilator Bundle), as well as to evaluate cost savings related to not developing the infection. The relevance of the results thus obtained is not only clinical but also managerial and economic, since a reduction in costs improves the economic performance of hospitals and a lower incidence of VAP improves their reputation on the national market of healthcare services.

Sustainability

This work investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the Italian manufacturing industry, testing whet... more This work investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the Italian manufacturing industry, testing whether the recovery measures introduced by the government were effective in alleviating the economic consequences of the virus in 2020. In particular, this work aims to address the impact of COVID-19 on the Italian manufacturing industry, and evaluation of the adopted recovery measures. Considering the current situation, with the war in Ukraine and the related gas crisis across the European Union, such investigation on policy relief is even more relevant, contributing to the current debate. Adopting RE models, and considering the latest economic and financial information available, we analyzed active private limited firms in the Italian manufacturing industry between 2019 and 2020, investigating the impact of layoff on their productivity (i.e., Total Factor Productivity) and profitability (i.e., Return On Assets), as well as their expected probability of default. According to the results of...

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Sep 15, 2021

This manuscript focuses on the Italian judicial system and on how to shape a policy reform aimed ... more This manuscript focuses on the Italian judicial system and on how to shape a policy reform aimed at increasing court efficiency, taking the financial negative externalities generated by this production process into account. On the one hand, the authors identify the benchmarks and main drivers of judicial inefficiency, while, on the other hand, they show how incorrect model definition may mislead policy makers tackling this reform process, based on an analysis of the Directional Distance Function with and without bad outputs. According to the results, incorrect model definition causes a type I error equal to 10.37% and a type II error equal to 3.66%. Policy implications concern the opportunity to adopt the proposed model and the collected benchmarks to reform the judicial system, improving its technical efficiency and maintaining the public budget under control.

Public policies are even more interested in vocational training issues, because spillovers fall o... more Public policies are even more interested in vocational training issues, because spillovers fall on the labour market, and then on life quality. Reports of the European Commission registered that women are disadvantaged subjects on the labour market but, at the same time, they are more ambitious and are at their best on the educational side. This paper aims at analysing data of Piedmont Region on vocational training policies, focusing on the role of women into the labour market. Data refer to subjects that accomplished their training course during 2011. Analyses have been performed on interviews, in order to evaluate the effects of training on medium-term employment outcomes of trainees. A control sample has been selected with the aim to evaluate the effect of training, with a special focus on women. Probit models and average marginal effects (AMEs) allow authors to estimate the net impact of training into the labour market. Results suggest that the employment gap between men and wom...