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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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Spatial Development

Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We present a theory of spatial development. A continuum of locations in a geographic area choose each period how much to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an...

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At Home and Abroad: An Empirical Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion in Energy-Efficient Technologies

Verdolini, Elena; Galeotti, Marzio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

of innovation in energy-efficient technologies to account for international knowledge flows and spillovers. In the first … the supply and demand determinants of innovation accounting for international knowledge spillovers. Our results confirm …This paper contributes to the induced innovation literature by extending the analysis of supply and demand determinants …

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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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