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Local Communities in front of Big External Investors: An Opportunity or a Risk?
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674328
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Special Interests and Technological Change
Bellettini, Giorgio; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
We study an OLG economy where productivity growth comes from two alternative sources: process innovation and learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423186
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Tourism and Development: A Recent Phenomenon Built on Old (Institutional) Roots?
Pigliaru, Francesco; Brau, Rinaldo; Liberto, Adriana Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489588
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Development Accounting with Intermediate Goods
Grobovšek, Jan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Do intermediate goods help explain relative and aggregate productivity differences across countries? Three observations … depresses aggregate productivity and increases the price ratio of final goods to services. Applying the model to data for middle … intermediate production efficiency of the US, the aggregate productivity gap between the lowest and highest income countries in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421237
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A Politico-Economic Model of Aging, Technology Adoption and Growth
Prarolo, Giovanni; Lancia, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
Over the past century, all OECD countries have been characterized by a dramatic increase in economic conditions, life expectancy and educational attainment. This paper provides a positive theory that explains how an economy might evolve when the longevity of its citizens both influences and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570325
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Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment
Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica De; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
capital increases the productivity of labour and the complementarity between labour and energy drives its pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904922
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The WITCH Model. Structure, Baseline, Solutions
Bosetti, Valentina; Massetti, Emanuele; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
WITCH – World Induced Technical Change Hybrid – is a regionally disaggregated hard-link hybrid global model with a neoclassical optimal growth structure (top-down) and a detailed energy input component (bottom-up). The model endogenously accounts for technological change, both through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385396
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The 2008 WITCH Model: New Model Features and Baseline
Cian, Enrica De; Bosetti, Valentina; Sgobbi, Alessandra; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
WITCH is an energy-economy-climate model developed by the climate change group at FEEM. The model has been extensively used in the past 3 years for the economic analysis of climate change policies. WITCH is a hybrid top-down economic model with a representation of the energy sector of medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502109
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Notes on the Determinants of Innovation: A Multi-Perspective Analysis
Crespi, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change. Different theoretical approaches present in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385464
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Firm Heterogeneity, Contract Enforcement, and the Industry Dynamics of Offshoring
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm’s production chain between a home upstream division and a foreign downstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987239