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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
literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423190
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“Spot, Bilateral and Futures Trading in Electricity Markets. Implications for Stability”
Termini, Valeria; Cavallo, Laura - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
mandatory pool with a regulated market for electricity derivatives, that allows to hedge price volatility and to mitigate market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570273
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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood
May, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385332
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Formation of Segregated and Integrated Groups
Watts, Alison - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
empty group is added to a segregated stable partition, then integration may occur. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385469
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Indicators of Migrants’ Socio-Professional Integration
Gregori, Emilio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Understanding and monitoring the diversity which lies under migrants’ socio-professional integration trends is a … integration of migrant people in Italy, based on data collected from administrative and official sources. This work was carried … of the theoretical concept of migrants, foreigners and integration was discussed, as well as the matters concerning the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423176
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The Public Management of Risk: Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors
Hiriart, Yolande; Martimort, David; Pouyet, Jerome - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
When a firm undertakes risky activities, the conflict between social and private incentives to implement safety care requires public intervention which can take the form of both monetary incentives but also ex ante or ex post monitoring, i.e., before or after an accident occurs. We delineate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828389
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Taking the Lab to the Field: Experimental Tests of Alternative Mechanisms to Procure Multiple Contracts
Lunander, Anders; Nilsson, Jan-Eric - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The first part of the paper reports the results from a sequence of laboratory experiments comparing the bidding behavior for multiple contracts in three different sealed bid auction mechanisms; first-price simultaneous, first-price sequential and first-price combinatorial bidding. The design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423195
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Towards the Green Environment.Comparison of Environmental Impacts of Urban Public Transport and Automobiles
Gommers, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
This study compares the environmental impacts of urban public transport and automobiles (energy use, emissions, noise nuisance, waste materials and use of space). For this purpose two models have been developed FACTS-Urban (Forecasting air pollution by car traffic simulation) and MILOV...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230820
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Green Investment Strategies and Export Performance: A Firm-level Investigation
Antonietti, Roberto; Marzucchi, Alberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
In this paper we empirically investigate the relationship between investments in environmentally-oriented equipment and firms’ export performance. Drawing on Porter hypothesis and firm heterogeneity theory, we adopt a structural model where first we estimate the impact of green investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904934
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Distortion Effects of Export Quota Policy: an Analysis of the China - Raw Materials Dispute
Charlier, Christophe; Guillou, Sarah - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941059