Distribution of individual wave overtopping volumes at rubble mound seawalls

For a safe design of a rubble mound seawall, overtopping characteristics such as the mean overtopping discharge (q) and the maximum individual overtopping volume (V_max) should be limited. Unlike q, the estimation of V_max is more complex and requires a wave-by-wave analysis of overtopping as well as a statistical analysis...

Distributional Properties of Firms' Growth and the role of the Financial Structure

In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of firms' growth, using an exhaustive data set of Italian firms between 1987-2006. The aim of the project is to understand the patterns of growth of firms and the relationship between growth and different financial structures.