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Estimating the Value of Oil Capital in a Small Open Economy: the Venezuela’s Example

Aniyar, Sara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The paper focuses in the calculation of the oil capital value in a small open economy depending on oil rents. The Venezuelan case is used as an example. In valuing the oil capital, two issues are recalled and discussed: how should the exploration costs and the capital gains be treated? It is...

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River Sharing and Water Trade

Ansink, Erik; Gengenbach, Michael; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

We analyse river sharing games in which a set of agents located along a river shares the available water. Using coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite...

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Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites

Akerman, Anders; Larsson, Anna; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have done remarkably well, others such as the Latin American...

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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms: Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...

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Democracy, Property Rights, Income Equality, and Corruption

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights protection. Our empirical analysis with...

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Property Rights Conservation and Development: An Analysis of Extractive Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon

Igliori, Danilo Camargo; Goesch, Timo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

The economic literature of property rights has been assessing the impact of different community based arrangements on the efficiency of natural resource management of specific areas. Differently, other strands of development economics and policy-oriented research have been concerned with issues...

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Women’s Rights and Development

Fernández, Raquel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Why has the expansion of women’s economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...

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Internal Migration Across Italian regions: Macroeconomic Determinants and Accommodating Potential for a Dualistic Economy

Piras, Romano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

of migration flows across Italian regions from 1970 to 2002. The empirical analysis is based on an accurate study of the … inversely related with net regional migration rate, while per capita GDP is strongly positively linked with it. As far as the … accommodating potential of internal migration to regional unbalances, we have detected very little room for such a role. Indeed, the …

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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa

Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …

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Migration, Unemployment and Net Benefits of Inbound Tourism in a Developing Country

Sahli, Mondher; Nowak, Jean-Jacques - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism coastal resorts can play a catalytic role in the...

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