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Industrial Coal Demand in China: A Provincial Analysis

Manera, Matteo; Cattaneo, Cristina; Scarpa, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China’s energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand...

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Binary Choice with Binary Endogenous Regressors in Panel Data: Estimating the Effect of Fertility on Female Labour Participation

Carrasco, Raquel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

This paper considers the estimation of binary choice panel data models with discrete endogenous regressors. We present a switching probit model which accounts for selectivity bias as well as for other forms of time invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Individual effects are allowed to be...

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Evaluating the Empirical Performance of Alternative Econometric Models for Oil Price Forecasting

Manera, Matteo; Longo, Chiara; Markandya, Anil; Scarpa, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

different types of econometric models for oil price forecasting. Several specifications have been proposed in the economic …). The empirical literature is very far from any consensus about the appropriate model for oil price forecasting that should … common sample and common data. Fourth, we evaluate the forecasting performance of each selected model using static and …

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Modelling Asymmetric Dependence Using Copula Functions: An application to Value-at-Risk in the Energy Sector

Bastianin, Andrea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

that asymmetries show up in their unconditional distribution, as well as in their unconditional copula. The VaR forecasting …

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Oil Price Forecast Evaluation with Flexible Loss Functions

Bastianin, Andrea; Manera, Matteo; Markandya, Anil; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

The empirical literature is very far from any consensus about the appropriate model for oil price forecasting that … frequencies on a common sample and common data. Fourth, we evaluate the forecasting performance of each selected model using …

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Biofuels and Food Prices: Searching for the Causal Link

Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

We analyze the relationship between the prices of ethanol, agricultural commodities and livestock in Nebraska, the U.S. second largest ethanol producer. The paper focuses on long-run relations and Granger causality linkages between ethanol and the other commodities.The analysis takes possible...

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On the Relationship between R&D and Productivity: a Treatment Effect Analysis

Medda, Giuseppe; Piga, Claudio; Siegel, Donald - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship between R&D expenditures and productivity growth. The analysis considers the different contributions of various forms of R&D (product, process, internal, external in collaboration...

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Space Vs. Networks in the Geography of Innovation: A European Analysis

Maggioni, Mario A.; Nosvelli, Mario; Uberti, T. Erika - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

In the last fifteen years, income differences among European Member States have been strongly narrowing while the process has been matched with a widening of the inter-regional variance within single countries. Traditionally, regional economic disparities in Europe have been ascribed to...

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Examining the Factors Influencing Environmental Innovations

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a whole, to the extent that it helps to increase the material/energy efficiency of production processes and to reduce emission/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental...

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Municipal Waste Selection and Disposal: Evidences from Lombardy

Silvestri, Francesco; Ghinoi, Stefano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

This article exploit a data base of 1.522 observations related to Lombardy’s municipalities to run a cross sectional estimation of the drivers of MW selection. We find no evidence of a significant correlation between the percentage of selected MW selection and market variables such as the unit...

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