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Exportation of Timber in Ghana: The Menace of Illegal Logging Operations

Sarfo-Mensah, Paul - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the linkage between external timber trade in Ghana and the increased incidence of illegal chainsaw operations which do not only threaten the country’s forests and other natural resources but also the erosion of the basis for sustainable agriculture...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: a Survey of the Literature

Borghesi, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

In the last few years, several studies have found an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and environmental degradation. This relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), suggests that environmental degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it...

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Cultural Diversity and Economic Performance: Evidence from European Regions

Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...

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Dissipation of Knowledge and the Boundaries of the Multinational Enterprise

Gattai, Valeria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper provides a theoretical formalisation of the joint-venture contract, as an alternative to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), within a Dissipation of Intangible Assets framework. In a two-period model, we discuss how the threat of knowledge spillover shapes the boundaries of a...

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Firm’s Intangible Assets and Multinational Activity: Joint-Venture Versus FDI

Gattai, Valeria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper provides a theoretical formalisation of the joint-venture contract, as an alternative to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), within a Dissipation of Intangible Assets framework. In a two-period, two-country equilibrium model, we discuss how the threat of knowledge spillover shapes the...

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Globalisation, Population and Ecology

Goody, Jack - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

how these affect the question of population growth, which is after all the core of resource allocation. It shows that … population growth may also depend on better medical treatments, higher productivity, less local violence and the decline of … education. There is a gap between the literates and the number of jobs. This discrepancy has produced a floating population of …

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Estimating the New Keynesian Phillips Curve for Italian Manufacturing Sectors

Massidda, Carla - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to test the general validity of the NKPC previsions for the Italian manufacturing industries. In particular we are interested in estimating the extent to which the degree of nominal inertia and the fraction of backward-looking price-setters differ from industry to...

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Evaluating Projects and Assessing Sustainable Development in Imperfect Economies

Arrow, Kenneth; Dasgupta, Partha; Mäler, Karl-Göran - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...

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Beyond GDP: Modelling Labour Supply as a ‘Free Time’ Trade-off in a Multiregional Optimal Growth Model

Bosetti, Valentina; Ghersi, Frédéric - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

-old population, and 3000 annual working hours (50 effective 60-hour weeks). We calibrate this free-time preference coefficient for 12 …. We illustrate a prospective use of this modelling development by comparing the consequences of convergence of the free …

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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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