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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

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Does Social Capital Create Trust? Evidence from a Community of Entrepreneurs

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …

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Directing Technical Change from Fossil-Fuel to Renewable Energy Innovation: An Empirical Application Using Firm-Level Patent Data

Noailly, Joëlle; Smeets, Roger - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

over the period 1978-2006. We investigate how energy prices, market size and knowledge stocks affect firms' incentives to … margin innovation decision (i.e. whether to conduct innovation) from the intensive margin decision (i.e. how much to innovate …). Overall, we find that all three factors – energy prices, market sizes and past knowledge stocks - matter to redirect …

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Clean and Dirty International Technology Diffusion

Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses knowledge market failure, while EPs respond to pressing local and global … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but …

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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellman, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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Environmental Regulations, Market Structure and Technological Progress in Renewable Energy Technology — A Panel Data Study on Wind Turbines

Rübbelke, Dirk; Weiss, Pia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …

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Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation

Noailly, Joëlle - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …

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