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The purpose of this work is to study, through various regression models, the relationship between investment in Research and Development and the results achieved by the Volkswagen group in the years between 2001 and 2015, during which this company was at centre of a resounding fraud in the Automotive Industry, demonstrating as simple models such as those based on bivariate regression can be used to explain the decisions made by successful companies and also to predict the results.
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Casolaro, F., Cristiani, M. (2020). The Volkswagen Case: Analysis of a “Scandalous” Growth. In: Flaut, D., Hošková-Mayerová, Š., Ispas, C., Maturo, F., Flaut, C. (eds) Decision Making in Social Sciences: Between Traditions and Innovations. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30659-5_30
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