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Cross-Border Intellectual Property Rights: Contract Enforcement and Absorptive Capacity

Naghavi, Alireza; Tsai, Yingyi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

-frame provided to least developed countries in Article 66 of TRIPS to implement its provisions. In addition, monitoring is only …

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An Exploration of the Link Between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk

Hallegatte, Stéphane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters … development and slower than income at high levels of development. In that case, increasing risk-taking reinforces economic growth …-taking is both a driver and a consequence of economic development, and should not be indiscriminately suppressed. The …

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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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Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun

Bosetti, Valentina; Frankel, Jeffrey - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the...

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An Empirical Contribution to the Debate on Corruption,Democracy and Environmental Policy

Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Gerlagh, Reyer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

development. …

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Water Consumption and Long-Run Urban Development: The Case of Milan

Nosvelli, Mario; Musolesi, Antonio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Analyses of long run consumption series are rare in literature. We study the evolution of water consumption in Milan in the twentieth century. The objective is twofold: on one side, the univariate analysis tries both to assess the impact of relevant socio-economic and environmental changes on...

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The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills Across Sectors

Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...

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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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Global Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Trade with Complete Specialization

Rübbelke, Dirk T.G.; Mukherjee, Vivekananda - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The paper develops a model in which a country with better technology for abatement of Green House Gas (GHG) emission (the North) commits to an international protocol to keep the global GHG emission within a specified limit while it helps the mitigation effort in the other country (the South)...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...

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