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Marketing via Friends: Strategic Diffusion of Information in Social Networks with Homophily

Chuhay, Roman - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

The paper studies the impact of homophily on the optimal strategies of a monopolist, whose marketing campaign of new product relies on a word of mouth communication. Homophily is a tendency of people to interact more with those who are similar to them. In the model there are two types of...

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Biodiversity Conservation on Private Lands: Information Problems and Regulatory Choices

Lin, Tun; Goeschl, Timo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

This survey paper examines various information insufficiencies in biodiversity conservation and their impact of … information, and 4) monitoring problem. The consequences of these four types of information insufficiencies on the choice of …

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(Self-) Enforcement of Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism Contracts

Janssen, Josef - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

International climate protection investments (Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects) are burdened with problems of contract enforcement, which prevent the realisation of efficiency gains associated with these investments. The paper analyses this problem from the...

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SMEs in Argentina: Who are the Exporters

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Martincus, Christian Volpe - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

There exists a growing body of literature which looks at export decisions made by firms. Most studies focus on developed countries and do not explore whether different behavioral patterns prevail over the firm size distribution. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature by analyzing...

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Resistance to Change

Dow, James; Perotti, Enrico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Established firms often fail to maintain leadership following disruptive market shifts. We argue that such firms are more prone to internal resistance. A radical adjustment of assets affects the distribution of employee rents, creating winners and losers. Losers resist large changes when strong...

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Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services. Micro-Evidence from Italy

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995...

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The Relationship Between Environmental Efficiency and Manufacturing Firm’s Growth

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

responses to policies, influences firms growth. Our results show, first, a typical trade off generally appearing for the three … the estimated coefficients is not large. Trade off are significant for two emission indicators out of two, but quite … and economic productivity, turning it from an usual trade off to a possible joint complementary/co-dynamics, where bad …

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On the Economic Determinants of Oil Production. Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence for Small Exporting Countries

Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this paper, decisions regarding production in oil exporting countries are studied by means of theoretical analysis and empirical investigation. Under the assumptions of exogenous oil prices and world oil demand, we are able to describe the relationship between oil production levels and...

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Entry on Export Markets and Firm-Level Performance Growth: Intra-Industrial Convergence or Divergence?

Mayneris, Florian - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the endogenous investment decision of firms conditioning on export decision. It shows that theoretically, whatever the form of preferences, firms that start exporting invest more and grow more than the others. However, it is shown that when...

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Is the Value of Bioprospecting Contracts Too Low?

Markandya, Anil; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

In order to regulate the proliferated bioprospecting and protect the biological diversity in the source countries, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established a legal framework for the reciprocal transfer of biological materials between the interested parties in bioprospecting...

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