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Standardi, Gabriele; Bosello, Francesco; Eboli, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

This paper describes a methodology to develop a Computable General Equilibrium model with a sub-national detail starting from a global database and model presenting the country-level as the highest resolution. This procedure is demonstratively applied to Italy, but can be transferred to any...

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Beyond the Home Market Effect: Market Size and Specialization in a Multi-Country World

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Behrens, Kristian; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The standard two-country model of international trade with monopolistic competition predicts a more-than-proportional relationship between a country’s share of world production of a good and its share of world demand for that same good, a result known as the “home market effect”. We first...

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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution

Gatto, Massimo Del - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...

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Modeling Spatial Sustainability: Spatial Welfare Economics versus Ecological Footprint

Grazi, Fabio; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Rietveld, Piet - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

A spatial welfare framework for the analysis of the spatial dimensions of sustainability is developed. It incorporates agglomeration effects, interregional trade, negative environmental externalities and various land use categories. The model is used to compare rankings of spatial configurations...

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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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The Role of Community in Migration Dynamics

Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Option Theory, investigates the roots of the migration dynamics. In the model the decision to migrate of each individual … observable "jumps" in the migration flows and to describe how the trigger for entry can change depending on the dimension of the …

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Entry and Exit Strategies in Migration Dynamics

Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This work is devoted to study the role of combined entry and exit strategies in the migration process. We develop a … triggers the migration choice, while the second triggers the return to the country of origin. The theoretical results show that … in some cases we observe migration inflows with a low wage differential and also with underunemployment. We show also …

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Migration Dynamics

Vergalli, Sergio; Moretto, Michele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper tries to explain why most migration flows show some observable jumps in their processes, a phenomenon that … seems to be sympathetic with the characteristic of irreversibility of migration. We present a real option model where the … probability of being fully integrated into the host country. The theoretical results show that the optimal migration decision of a …

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Pollution and the Efficiency of Urban Growth

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of production. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale on aggregate. Urban environmental pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic...

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Municipal Waste Selection and Disposal: Evidences from Lombardy

Silvestri, Francesco; Ghinoi, Stefano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

This article exploit a data base of 1.522 observations related to Lombardy’s municipalities to run a cross sectional estimation of the drivers of MW selection. We find no evidence of a significant correlation between the percentage of selected MW selection and market variables such as the unit...

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