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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392551
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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation
Leij, Marco J. van der; Buhai, I. Sebastian - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
We develop a social network model of occupational segregation between different social groups, generated by the existence of positive inbreeding bias among individuals from the same group. If network referrals are important for job search, then expected homophily in the contact network structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965195
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Contracting with Externalities and Outside Options
Bloch, Francis; Gomes, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
encompasses many economic models with externalities and outside options. We show that when outside options are pure (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385394
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Instant Efficient Pollution Abatement under Non-Linear Taxation and Asymmetric Information: The Differential Tax Revisited
Mensink, Paul - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
This paper analyzes incentives for polluting firms to exchange abatement cost information under the non-linear pollution tax scheme (‘differential tax’) introduced by Kim and Chang [J. Regul. Econom. 5, 1993, 193-197]. It shows that polluting firms have - under mild conditions - an incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385420
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Bidding among Friends and Enemies
Ettinger, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second … independently from the identity of the winner. We prove that the first-price auction is not affected by this kind of price-externalities … by the presence of such price-externalities. In any case, in comparison with the first-price auction, the second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423117
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Short and Long-term Effects of Environmental Tax Reform
Oueslati, Walid - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of an environmental tax reform in a growing economy. A model of endogenous growth based on human capital accumulation is used to numerically simulate the growth effects of different environmental tax reforms and compute their impact on welfare in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904908
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Are all High-Skilled Cohorts Created Equal? Unemployment, Gender, and Research Productivity
Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates’ research productivity. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904925
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385405
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Regulating the Environmental Consequences of Preferences for Social Status within an Evolutionary Framework
Sartzetakis, Eftichios S.; Xepapadeas, Anastasios; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Taking as given that we are consuming too much and that overconsumption leads to environmental degradation, the present paper examines the regulator's choices between informative advertisement and consumption taxation. We model overconsumption by considering individuals that care about social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268594
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Transboundary Pollution, R&D Spillovers and International Trade
Youssef, Slim Ben - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
We consider a symmetric three-stage game played by a pair of regulator-firm hierarchies to capture the scale and technology effects. Each firm produces one good sold on the market. The production process generates pollution characterized by a fixed emission/output ratio, and cross-borders. Firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385372