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Asymmetric Labor Markets, Southern Wages, and the Location of Firms

Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper studies the behavior of firms towards weak labor rights in developing countries (South). A less than perfectly elastic labor supply in the South gives firms oligopsonistic power tempting them to strategically reduce output to cut wages. In an open economy, competitors operating in...

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Climate Change and Individual Decision Making: An Examination of Knowledge, Risk Perception, Self-interest and Their Interplay

Pongiglione, Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and...

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Farmland Investments in Africa: What’s the Deal?

Corato, Luca Di; Hess, Sebastian - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Large-scale foreign investments in African farmland are rising and may contribute to agricultural productivity growth and economic development. However, host countries sometimes have to wait longer for the economic benefits to arrive than initially expected. In this respect, the timing of...

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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer

Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper analyzes welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in the framework of TRIPS for developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade environment, the South sets its IPR policy...

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The Impact of Unilateral Climate Policy with Endogenous Plant Location and Market Size Asymmetry

Sanna-Randaccio, Francesca; Sestini, Roberta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper analyses the impact of unilateral climate policy on firms’ international location strategies in emission-intensive sectors, when countries differ in terms of market size. The cases of partial and total relocation via foreign direct investment are separately considered. A simple...

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Pollution Control: When, and How, to be Precautious

Athanassoglou, Stergios; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

uncertainty, society must take robust preventive action to guard against worst-case outcomes. It follows that the higher the … degree of uncertainty, the more aggressive this preventive action should be. This normative maxim is explored in the case of … a stylized dynamic model of pollution control under Knightian uncertainty. At time 0 a decision-maker makes a one …

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Harmful Signaling in Matching Markets

Kushnir, Alexey - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Some labor markets have recently developed formal signalling mechanisms, e.g. the signalling for interviews in the job market for new Ph.D. economists. We evaluate the effect of such mechanisms on two-sided matching markets by considering a game of incomplete information between firms and...

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How to Win Twice at an Auction. On the Incidence of Commissions in Auction Markets

Ginsburgh, Victor; Legros, Patrick; Sahuguet, Nicolas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We analyze the welfare consequences of an increase in the commissions charged by the organizer of an auction. Commissions are similar to taxes imposed on buyers and sellers and the economic problem that results looks similar to the question of tax incidence in consumer economics. We argue,...

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Multiproduct Multinationals and the Quality of Innovation

Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be spread across different product lines. We focus on two...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Entry into a Foreign Market: FDI vs. Joint Ventures

Naghavi, Alireza; Leahy, Dermot - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

We study the effect of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime of a host country (South) on a multinational's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering a joint venture (JV) with a local firm, which allows...

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