10 papers
Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow
Silvia Bartolucci, Pierpaolo Vivo
Quantifying the workplace productivity effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence is now central to economics, management, and public policy. The deployment of AI tools in custo…
Comparing Smart Contract Paradigms: A Preliminary Study of Security and Developer Experience
Matteo Vaccargiu, Andrea Pinna, Maria Ilaria Lunesu +1
Smart contract vulnerabilities have caused billions in financial losses, raising questions about whether programming language paradigms can reduce security overhead. While imperati…
Efficiency for Experts, Visibility for Newcomers: A Case Study of Label-Code Alignment in Kubernetes
Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci +3
Labels on platforms such as GitHub support triage and coordination, yet little is known about how well they align with code modifications or how such alignment affects collaboratio…
A calibrated model of debt recycling with interest costs and tax shields: viability under different fiscal regimes and jurisdictions
Carlo von der Osten, Sabrina Aufiero, Pierpaolo Vivo +2
Debt recycling is a leveraged equity management strategy in which homeowners use accumulated home equity to finance investments, applying the resulting returns to accelerate mortga…
Mapping Microscopic and Systemic Risks in TradFi and DeFi: a literature review
Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli +1
This work explores the formation and propagation of systemic risks across traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), offering a comparative framework that bridg…
Top eigenpair statistics of diluted Wishart matrices
Barak Budnick, Preben Forer, Pierpaolo Vivo +3
Using the replica method, we compute the statistics of the top eigenpair of diluted covariance matrices of the form , where is a…