Fostering the role of public services evaluation for innovation, inclusion, and sustainability

Research Team: Giulia Romano, Riccardo Cambini, Laura Carosi, Giovanna D’Inverno, Maria Silvia Fiorelli, Rachele Foschi, Giuseppe Conti, Simone Scotti

Paper and books published:

1. Romano G., Masserini L. (2023), Pay-as-you-throw tariff and sustainable urban waste management: An empirical analysis of relevant effects, Journal of Environmental Management, 347, 119211 (open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479723019990)
2. Scotti et al. (2023), A dam management problem with energy production as an optimal switching problem, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asmb.2840)
3. Foschi R. (2023), A Point Processes approach to bicycle sharing systems’ design and management, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Volume 87, Part B, June, 101608, (open access: A Point Processes approach to bicycle sharing systems’ design and management – ScienceDirect)
4. Romano G., Masserini L. (2023), Does a zero-waste strategy in sustainable urban waste management affect hierarchy targets and costs? Utilities Policy, 85, 101659 (open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957178723001716)
5. D’Inverno et al. (2024), Water Utility Service Quality Index: A customer-centred approach for assessing the quality of service in the water sector, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 92, 101797 (open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038012123003099?via%3Dihub#d1e6907)
6. Conti G. (2024), Gli affari all’assalto dei saperi, Mimesis – Link ad articolo apparso sulla stampa «Il potere degli algoritmi, così non si premia il merito» – Faber, Pisa (laprovinciaunicatv.it)
7. Cambini R., D’Inverno G. (2024), Rank-two programs involving linear fractional functions, Decisions in Economics and Finance (open access:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10203-024-00444-2
8. Cambini R., Riccardi R. (2024), Optimality conditions for differentiable linearly constrained pseudoconvex programs, Decisions in Economics and Finance (open access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10203-024-00454-0)
9. Romano G., Fiorelli M.S. et al. (2024), La buona gestione e il buon governo delle aziende di servizi pubblici locali, FrancoAngeli (open access: La buona gestione e il buon governo delle aziende di servizi pubblici locali. Tratti distintivi e fattori critici di successo delle aziende a totale capitale pubblico | FrancoAngeli Series – Open Access)
10. Romano G. et al. (2025), Water utility regulatory models for energy procurement in Europe: An empirical investigation, Applied Energy (open access: Water utility regulatory models for energy procurement in Europe: An empirical investigation – ScienceDirect)
11. Carosi, L., D’Inverno, G. & Senante, M.M. Malmquist Productivity Index from a regulator’s perspective. Ann Oper Res (2025). (open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-025-06507-w )
12. Conti G. (in press), Hayek e l’ignoranza nella società “aperta”, senza meriti personali, ma con una meritocrazia d’impresa, Filosofia politica

Conference presentations

Conti G. (2023), La genealogia dell’università neoliberale e la valutazione del “capitale umano”, Convegno della Società degli storici dell’economia, Milano, giugno 2023

D’Inverno G. (2023), Are you really better than me? A new method to deal with input and output composition in performance evaluation, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS, Surrey Business School University of Surrey Guildford United Kingdom, September 4-6, 2023 https://dataenvelopment.com/dea45/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/09/DEA45-Program-September-4-6.pdf

D’Inverno G. (2023), Water Utility Service Quality Index: A customer-centred approach for assessing the quality of service in the water sector, AMASES 2023, University of Milano-Bicocca, September 20-21-22, 2023

D’Inverno G. (2024), Performance Trends in Educational Equity in the OECD: An International Assessment using Malmquist Indices”, EWEPA XVIII – The 18th European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Universidade do Algarve, Faro – Portugal     18-21 June, 2024 https://www.ewepa.org/images/program/ewepa2024_program_v4_27062024.pdf

Romano G. (2024), Key and Advantage Sustainable Success Factors of the Publicly Owned Management of Public Services in Italy, ECPR General Conference, University College Dublin, 12-15 August 2024, Panel Public Ownership and Sustainability Transition

Cambini R. (2024), “Rank-two programs: generalized convexity and solution methods”, “14th International Symposium on Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity”, Special Session “Models and methods for energy markets and policy making”, held in Pisa (Italy), September 2-6, 2024

Cambini R. (2024), “Rank-two programs involving linear fractional functions” Special Session “Mathematical Approaches To Efficiency In Sustainability With Applications To Society”. “International Congress on Sustainable Social Development (ICOSSOD24)”, in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz,  (Spain, mixed mode), October 16-18, 2024

Nell’ambito del “XIV International Symposium on Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity” è stato organizzato un cluster su “Models and methods for energy markets and policy making” che si è tenuto il 3 settembre 2024.

Convegno finale

16 dicembre 2024 a Pisa, Polo Piagge: La buona gestione e il buon governo delle aziende di servizi pubblici locali