Conveners
CONTRIBUTED Process 5 + Economics 2
- Sven Knoth (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany)
Sometimes measurements in different (industrial) sectors do not have a quantitative range, but a qualitative range consisting of a finite number of categories, which in turn exhibit a natural order. Several proposals have been made in the literature to monitor such data. In a comprehensive review, we present existing control charts that focus on independent and identically distributed ordinal...
Nowadays, in order to guarantee and preserve the high quality of their products, most manufacturing companies design monitoring schemes which allow abnormal events to be quickly, easily and efficiently recognised and their possible root causes to be correctly identified. Traditionally, these monitoring schemes are constructed calibrating a so-called in-control model on data collected...
During the last decades, the foreign ownership of domestic business has shown a strong increase at global level and now it represents an important share of the world economy. The economic literature widely debates on possible foreign ownership of business spillover effects on employment. This paper examines this presence in Italy during a crucial period for the country (2002-2007), right after...