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Volunteering and Life or Financial Shocks: Does Income and Wealth Matter?

Beatton, Tony; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Volunteering is a dominant social force that signals a healthy state. However, although the literature on volunteering … is extensive, knowledge on how life’s discontinuities (life event shocks) affect volunteering is limited because most … life and financial shocks with respect to volunteering. Although both income and wealth can act as buffers against life …

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Unbundling Technology Adoption and tfp at the Firm Level. Do Intangibles Matter?

Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Gatto, Massimo Del - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...

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Environmental Kuznets Curves for Carbon Emissions: A Critical Survey

Aslanidis, Nektarios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

literature. We discuss issues related to the functional form, heterogeneity, “spurious” regressions and spatial dependence to …

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Power in the Heterogeneous Connections Model: The Emergence of Core-Periphery Networks

Persitz, Dotan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

issue is developed. These results suggest heterogeneity accompanied by "power based" linking preferences as a natural …

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In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents

Ule, Aljaž; Goeree, Jacob K.; Riedl, Arno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

-regarding preferences are used to analyze individual linking behavior. Our results suggest that heterogeneity is a major determinant for the …

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On Coalition Formation with Heterogeneous Agents

Caparrós, Alejandro; Hammoudi, Abdelhakim; Tazdaït, Tarik - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We propose a framework to analyze coalition formation with heterogeneous agents. Existing literature defines stability conditions that do not ensure that, once an agent decides to sign an agreement, the enlarged coalition is feasible. Defining the concepts of refraction and exchanging, we set up...

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Strategic Immigration Policies and Welfare in Heterogeneous Countries

Fujita, Masahisa; Weber, Shlomo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

In this paper we consider a model with two industrialised countries and immigrants that come from “the rest of the world”. The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias towards immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and...

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