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Nuclear versus Coal plus CCS: A Comparison of Two Competitive Base-load Climate Control Options
Tavoni, Massimo; Zwaan, Bob van der - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
that until 2050 the resulting growth rates of nuclear electricity generation capacity become comparable to historical rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502125
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: a Survey of the Literature
Borghesi, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it eventually decreases as income exceeds a threshold level. The present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391480
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Decentralization, Social Capital and Regional Convergence
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
(hampers) growth wherever social capital is high (low). We define our hypothesis within a growth model with public capital, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671478
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The ICT Revolution: Opportunities and Risks for the Mezzogiorno
Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Pinelli, Dino - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385512
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Exportation of Timber in Ghana: The Menace of Illegal Logging Operations
Sarfo-Mensah, Paul - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the linkage between external timber trade in Ghana and the increased incidence of illegal chainsaw operations which do not only threaten the country’s forests and other natural resources but also the erosion of the basis for sustainable agriculture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385466
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Cultural Diversity and Economic Performance: Evidence from European Regions
Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987242
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Dissipation of Knowledge and the Boundaries of the Multinational Enterprise
Gattai, Valeria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
This paper provides a theoretical formalisation of the joint-venture contract, as an alternative to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), within a Dissipation of Intangible Assets framework. In a two-period model, we discuss how the threat of knowledge spillover shapes the boundaries of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230819
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Firm’s Intangible Assets and Multinational Activity: Joint-Venture Versus FDI
Gattai, Valeria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
This paper provides a theoretical formalisation of the joint-venture contract, as an alternative to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), within a Dissipation of Intangible Assets framework. In a two-period, two-country equilibrium model, we discuss how the threat of knowledge spillover shapes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230920
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Evaluating Projects and Assessing Sustainable Development in Imperfect Economies
Arrow, Kenneth; Dasgupta, Partha; Mäler, Karl-Göran - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385378
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Beyond GDP: Modelling Labour Supply as a ‘Free Time’ Trade-off in a Multiregional Optimal Growth Model
Bosetti, Valentina; Ghersi, Frédéric - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
In this paper we develop the standard utility function of a Ramsey-type optimal growth model to account for a ‘market …. We illustrate a prospective use of this modelling development by comparing the consequences of convergence of the free …, compared to a business-as-usual trajectory defined by maintained regional disparities in free time preference, convergence to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555586