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How to Measure the Unobservable: A Panel Technique for the Analysis of TFP Convergence

Liberto, Adriana Di; Mura, Roberto; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously take into account both TFP convergence and the traditional neoclassical-type of convergence. We analyse a sample of Italian regions between 1963 and 1993 and find strong evidence that both mechanisms were at...

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Production Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Italian Manufacturing Firms: A Counterfactual Analysis

Antonietti, Roberto; Antonioli, Davide - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This work explores the effects of cross-border relocation of production on the skill composition of Italian manufacturing firms. Its aim is to assess if the firms’ strategy to offshore production activities towards cheap labor countries determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled...

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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in … emerging from the empirical evidence are the surprisingly low level of educational qualification exhibited by employers and the … tendency of workers holding higher levels of educational qualification not to choose to undertake an entrepreneurial activity …

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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 intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...

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Municipal Waste Production, Economic Drivers, and ‘New’ Waste Policies: EKC Evidence from Italian Regional and Provincial Panel Data

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides empirical evidence on delinking and Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for municipal waste production in Italy. First, methodological issues and literature on delinking and EKC for waste are critically re-examined. Secondly, we analyse two very disaggregated panel datasets on...

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Binary Choice with Binary Endogenous Regressors in Panel Data: Estimating the Effect of Fertility on Female Labour Participation

Carrasco, Raquel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

This paper considers the estimation of binary choice panel data models with discrete endogenous regressors. We present a switching probit model which accounts for selectivity bias as well as for other forms of time invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Individual effects are allowed to be...

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Industrial Coal Demand in China: A Provincial Analysis

Manera, Matteo; Cattaneo, Cristina; Scarpa, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China’s energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand...

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject to continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions,...

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Why Finance Ministers Favor Carbon Taxes, Even if They Do not Take Climate Change into Account

Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Fiscal considerations may shift governmental priorities away from environmental concerns: Finance ministers face strong demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition. We develop a multi-region model of tax competition...

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