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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 “tourism countries” within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period...

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Geographical Distribution of Crime in Italian Provinces: A Spatial Econometric Analysis

Uberti, Teodora Erika; Cracolici, Maria Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

For a long time social sciences scholars from different fields have devoted their attention to identifying the causes leading to commit criminal offences and recently lots of studies have included the analysis of spatial effects. Respect to the Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist:...

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Industrial Coal Demand in China: A Provincial Analysis

Manera, Matteo; Cattaneo, Cristina; Scarpa, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China’s energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand...

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A Public Finance Perspective on Climate Policy: Six Interactions That May Enhance Welfare

Siegmeier, Jan; Mattauch, Linus; Franks, Max; Klenert, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...

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Time Overruns as Opportunistic Behavior in Public Procurement

Chiara D’Alpaos; Moretto, Michele; Valbonesi, Paola; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper considers the supplier’s strategic delivery lead time in a public procurement setting as the result of the firm’s opportunistic behaviour on the optimal investment timing. In the presence of uncertainty on construction costs, we model the supplier’s option to defer the...

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Energy Efficiency in Transition Economies: Is There Convergence Towards the EU Average?

Markandya, Anil; Pedroso, Suzette; Streimikiene, Dalia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

convergence, and a carefully estimated econometric model of lagged adjustment confirms this. On average, a 1% decrease in the per … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters … fastest convergence rates given these parameters are the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. The forecast values for …

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The ICT Revolution: Opportunities and Risks for the Mezzogiorno

Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Pinelli, Dino - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...

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Decentralization, Social Capital and Regional Convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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Waste Generation and Landfill Diversion Dynamics: Decentralised Management and Spatial Effects

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Nicolli, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

contribute to explaining the waste dynamics. Though North-South waste performances are showing some signals of convergence …, greater efforts towards convergence of waste performances in a decentralised policy scenario are needed. …

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How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks

Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density...

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