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Are Workers. Enterprises Entry Policies Conventional

Moretto, Michele; Rossini, Gianpaolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

One of the main reasons why workers’ enterprises (WE) still represent a relevant chunk of the economy may lie in some affinities with conventional profit maximizing firms. To prove this, we compare the entry policies of WEs and conventional firms when they can decide size at entry while having...

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Start-up Entry Strategies: Employer vs. Nonemployer firms

Moretto, Michele; Rossini, Gianpaolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

effect that this has on the reactions to market uncertainty. However, the set of internal organizations of firms is larger … interpret them. According to recent literature, firms carry out an irreversible investment, such as entry, only if market prices … because they react in diverse fashions to market price volatility. In this sense we are able to show that, in most cases, the …

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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 … 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 …

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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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