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What is Amazon? How would you define Jeff Bezos’ company that was founded in 1994? It is common view to define Amazon as an online retailer and cloud computing services' company which is heavily investing in increasing the effectiveness of its logistical processes. For Amazon, logistics has become the core of its business: it manages the supply chain from supplier out through a distribution system to the final user. In doing so, Amazon is able to establish a competitive advantage through a superior customer service that is eventually the outcome of flexibility, quickness of delivery and real-time implementation of its inventory system. Simply put, cloud-computing inventory and net-centric supply system helped Amazon to obtain the cost advantages typical of economies of scale: the physical logistics and the e-commerce platform get together to give Amazon full information dominance and situational awareness of the market, therefore minimizing overstocking, understocking and avo...

Here's the link to the the first part This second part of the article wants to enact the worst-case scenario for Italy: the likelihood of a default in light of a reduction of stimulus program by ECB. At first, the conditions of the Eurozone seem pretty stable and the macroeconomic outlook, even considering political risk, is far from 2010. Populist parties have been sidelined during the last elections in France and UK. In Germany, a stream of positive economic data is accompanied by political uncertainty over Chancellor Merkel’s ability to form a coalition government: however, the turmoil is unlikely to have serious repercussions. Spain is regaining focus, notwithstanding the political stand-off between the Central government and Catalan authorities. Greece is no longer in dire straits and is slowly recovering: the Hellenic country has just held its first bond sale since 2014. Growth has gained steam in most of European countries over the last 2 years. In ...