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Legal Families and Environmental Protection: Is there a Causal Relationship?

Vita, Giuseppe Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

In this paper we build up the analysis of La Porta et al. (1998), to investigate the importance of legal families in explaining the variations in pollution emissions in different countries. The main intuition behind our analysis is that the nations in which the rights of shareholders are more...

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A History of Violence: Testing the ‘Culture of Honor’ in the US South

Grosjean, Pauline - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact...

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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

convergence, and a carefully estimated econometric model of lagged adjustment confirms this. On average, a 1% decrease in the per … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters … fastest convergence rates given these parameters are the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. The forecast values for …

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The ICT Revolution: Opportunities and Risks for the Mezzogiorno

Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Pinelli, Dino - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...

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Decentralization, Social Capital and Regional Convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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Waste Generation and Landfill Diversion Dynamics: Decentralised Management and Spatial Effects

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Nicolli, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

contribute to explaining the waste dynamics. Though North-South waste performances are showing some signals of convergence …, greater efforts towards convergence of waste performances in a decentralised policy scenario are needed. …

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How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks

Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density...

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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 “tourism countries” within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period...

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Anonymous Social Influence

Förster, Manuel; Grabisch, Michel; Rusinowsk, Agnieszka - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

and sufficient condition for convergence to consensus and characterize outcomes where the society ends up polarized. Our … some extent. We provide an analysis of the speed of convergence and the possible outcomes of the process. Furthermore, we …

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Learning to Play Approximate Nash Equilibria in Games with Many Players

Cartwright, Edward - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

an imitation dynamic and provide conditions under which play evolves to an imitation equilibrium; convergence is …

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