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Brown Sunsets and Green Dawns in the Industrial Sector: Environmental Innovations, Firm Behavior and the European Emission Trading

Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...

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North / South Contractual Design through the REDD+ Scheme

Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Poudou, Jean-Christophe; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation … information rent/efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are …

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Postprivatization Corporate Governance: the Role of Ownership Structure and Investor Protection

Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Guedhami, Omrane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

positive effect of ownership concentration on firm performance matters more in countries with weak investor protection and that … private domestic ownership leads to higher performance. …

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Relative Income Position and Performance: An Empirical Panel Analysis

Torgler, Benno; Schmidt, Sascha L.; Frey, Bruno S. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

provides an empirical analysis on how individuals’ relative income position affects their performance. Using a unique data set … income differences within a team, the worse the performance of the soccer players is. The more the players are integrated in …

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The Determinants of Suppliers’ Performance in E-Procurement: Evidence from the Italian Government’s E-Procurement Platform

Albano, Gian Luigi; Dini, Federico; Zampino, Roberto; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Participation of small businesses in the market for public contracts is widely recognized as a key policy issue. It is also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end, we analyze the transactions completed in the period...

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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

Exchange in the period 1988-1996. Our aim is to investigate if board members change more frequently when company performance is … and that the relationship between turnover and performance is stronger in companies that have experienced a change in the …

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Ownership Concentration, Monitoring and Optimal Board Structure

Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The paper analyzes the optimal structure of board of directors in a firm with ownership concentrated in the hands of a large shareholder who sits on the board. We focus our attention on the choice between one-tier board who performs all tasks and two-tier board where the management board is in...

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From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization

Megginson, William L.; Netter, Jeffry M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

privatisation significantly (often dramatically) improves the operating and financial performance of divested firms. Governments can …

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The Missing Shock: The Macroeconomic Impact of British Privatisation

Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

less developed countries. In this paper we test the impact of privatisation on macroeconomic performance in the United …

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Post-Privatisation Ownership Structure and Productivity in Russian Industrial Enterprises

Earle, John S. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure on the productivity performance of Russian industrial … possible selection effects in the privatisation process that may bias the observed ownership-performance relationship. The … performance through the privatisation process. …

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