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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …

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Youth Unemployment Challenges in Mining Areas of Ghana

Sarfo-Mensah, P.; Adjaloo, M.K.; Donkor, P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

Ghana, like the rest of West Africa is experiencing tremendous human migration both internally and across international … boundaries. Rural-urban migration has assumed uncontrollable dimensions in the sub-region and the social consequences have become …

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Do Privatizations Boost Household Shareholding? Evidence from Italy

Ricchi, Ottavio; Carluccio, Adolfo Di; Frale, Cecilia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

It is believed that privatizations substantially contributed to boost stock markets through the 1980s and 1990s. However, trough which channels did that materialize? We test whether privatizations –improving households’ acquaintance with the risk and return characteristics of stocks through...

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Variation in Risk Seeking Behavior in a Natural Experiment on Large Losses Induced by a Natural Disaster

Page, Lionel; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster. Using the margins of the 2011 Australian floods (Brisbane) as a natural experimental setting, we find that homeowners who were victims of the floods and face large losses in...

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Bounded Rationality and Voting Decisions Exploring a 160-Year Period

Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848–2009), we investigate whether a higher level of complexity leads to increased reliance on expert knowledge. We find that when more referenda are held on the same day, constituents are more likely to refer...

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Climate Change and Individual Decision Making: An Examination of Knowledge, Risk Perception, Self-interest and Their Interplay

Pongiglione, Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and...

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Identity, Homophily and In-Group Bias

Currarini, Sergio; Menge, Friederike - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

School of Economics, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus and Department of Economics (AE1), Maastricht University

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”Thou shalt not covet ...”: Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral values that (internally) sanction prohibited actions and their desire may increase utility by reducing self-control costs, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply...

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The Fragility of Social Capital

Sabatini, Fabio; Antoci, Angelo; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper addresses two hot topics of the contemporary debate, social capital and economic growth. Our theoretical analysis sheds light on decisive but so far neglected issues: how does social capital accumulate over time? Which is the relationship between social capital, technical progress and...

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Energy Efficiency in Transition Economies: Is There Convergence Towards the EU Average?

Markandya, Anil; Pedroso, Suzette; Streimikiene, Dalia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

considered as in transition to a full market economy, and that of the present EU members. The raw data shows some evidence of … capita income gap between developed and transition economies leads to a decrease in the energy intensity growth rate of a … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters …

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