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Sharing R&D Investments in Cleaner Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change

El-Sayed, Abeer; Rubio, Santiago J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international cooperation on GHG emission reductions. It is assumed that when countries cooperate they coordinate their investments so as to minimize the agreement costs of controlling emissions and...

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Bounded Rationality and Voting Decisions Exploring a 160-Year Period

Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848–2009), we investigate whether …

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On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union

Barbera, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …

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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach

Vega-Redondo, Fernando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its “social capital” by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner’s...

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On Coalition Formation with Heterogeneous Agents

Caparrós, Alejandro; Hammoudi, Abdelhakim; Tazdaït, Tarik - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We propose a framework to analyze coalition formation with heterogeneous agents. Existing literature defines stability conditions that do not ensure that, once an agent decides to sign an agreement, the enlarged coalition is feasible. Defining the concepts of refraction and exchanging, we set up...

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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution

Perez, Wilson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...

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Perceived Diversity of Complex Environmental Systems: Multidimensional Measurement and Synthetic Indicators

Gasparino, Ugo; Corpo, Barbara Del; Pinelli, Dino - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The general attitude towards the sustainable management of environmental resources is evolving towards the implementation of ‘participatory’ (as opposed to the classical ‘command and control’) and, especially at local scale, ‘bottom up’ (as opposed to the classical ‘top down’)...

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On the Timing of Political Regime Changes: Theory and Application to the Arab Spring

Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We develop a continuous time dynamic game to provide with a benchmark theory of Arab Spring-type events. We consider a resource-dependent economy with two interacting groups, the elite vs. the citizens, and two political regimes, dictatorship vs. a freer regime. Transition to the freer regime...

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War Size Distribution: Empirical Regularities Behind the Conflicts

González-Val, Rafael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

This paper analyses the statistical distribution of war size. We find strong support for a Pareto-type distribution (power law) using data from different sources (COW and UCDP) and periods. A power law describesaccurately the size distribution of all wars, but also the distribution of the sample...

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Networks of Military Alliances, Wars, and International Trade

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...

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