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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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Drought Management Plans and Water Availability in Agriculture. A Risk Assessment Model for a Southern European Basin

Blanco, Carlos Dionisio Pérez; Gómez, Carlos Mario Gómez - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The Drought Management Plans (DMPs) are a regulatory instrument that establishes priorities among the different water uses and defines more stringent constraints to access to publicly provided water during droughts, especially for non-priority uses such as agriculture. These plans have recently...

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Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...

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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies between Global Conventions through Land Use Changes: Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degradat...

Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...

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Evaluating Projects and Assessing Sustainable Development in Imperfect Economies

Arrow, Kenneth; Dasgupta, Partha; Mäler, Karl-Göran - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...

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Beyond GDP: Modelling Labour Supply as a ‘Free Time’ Trade-off in a Multiregional Optimal Growth Model

Bosetti, Valentina; Ghersi, Frédéric - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

. We illustrate a prospective use of this modelling development by comparing the consequences of convergence of the free …, compared to a business-as-usual trajectory defined by maintained regional disparities in free time preference, convergence to … cumulated CO2-equivalent emissions; convergence to Western European free time preference decreases labour market time by 13 …

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Nuclear versus Coal plus CCS: A Comparison of Two Competitive Base-load Climate Control Options

Tavoni, Massimo; Zwaan, Bob van der - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

In this paper we analyze the relative importance and mutual behavior of two competing base-load electricity generation options that each are capable of contributing significantly to the abatement of global CO2 emissions: nuclear energy and coal-based power production complemented with CO2...

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Leadership Cycles

Denicolò, Vincenzo; Zanchettin, Piercarlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We study a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth that produces stochastic leadership cycles. Over a cycle, industry leaders can innovate several successive times in the same industry, gradually increasing the magnitude of their technological lead before being replaced by a new entrant....

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Emissions Trends and Labour Productivity Dynamics Sector Analyses of De-coupling/Recoupling on a 1990-2005 Namea

Marin, Giovanni; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper provides new empirical evidence on Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKC) for greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants at sector level. A panel dataset based on the Italian NAMEA over 1990-2005 is analysed, focusing on both emission efficiency (EKC model) and total emissions (IPAT...

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Regional and Sector Environmental Efficiency Empirical Evidence from Structural Shift-share Analysis of NAMEA data

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional–national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...

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