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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution

Gatto, Massimo Del - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...

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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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The Impact of Immigration on Portuguese Intra-Industry Trade

Leitão, Nuno Carlos - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between intra-industry trade (IIT) and immigration flows using a gravity model for the period 2000-2010 between Portugal and European Union’s Member States (EU-27). The present study uses the methodology of Kandogan (2003) for separating IIT into its...

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Intellectual Property Rights and South-North Formation of Global Innovation Networks

Comune, Maria; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

emerging economies (South), such as China and India, and more generally, how IPRs affect the development of GINs between newly …

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On the Green Side of Trade Competitiveness? Environmental Policies and Innovation in the EU

Costantini, Valeria; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper aims to explore how the competitiveness of the EU economy, here captured by export dynamics over the medium … weak versions of the Porter hypothesis are tested by specifying the export dynamics of five aggregated manufacturing … theoretically-based gravity model. When testing the strong version on export performances of manufacturing sectors, the overall …

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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 should be implemented. Relative to the previous literature, this paper is novel in several respects. First of all, we test and systematically evaluate the ability of several...

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Oil Price Dynamics, Macro-Finance Interactions and the Role of Financial Speculation

Morana, Claudio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

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The Oil price-Macroeconomy Relationship since the Mid- 1980s: A global perspective

Morana, Claudio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

In this paper the oil price-macroeconomy relationship is investigated from a global perspective, by means of a large scale macro-financial-econometric model. In addition to real activity, fiscal and monetary policy responses and labor and financial markets are considered as well. We find that...

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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

The relevance of oil in the world economy explains why considerable effort has been devoted to the development of different types of econometric models for oil price forecasting. Several specifications have been proposed in the economic literature. Some are based on financial theory and...

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A Trend Deduction Model of Fluctuating Oil Prices

Xu, Haiyan; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Crude oil prices have been fluctuating over time and by a large range. It is the disorganization of oil price series that makes it difficult to deduce the changing trends of oil prices in the middle- and long-terms and predict their price levels in the short-term. Following a price-state...

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