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Municipal Waste Production, Economic Drivers, and ‘New’ Waste Policies: EKC Evidence from Italian Regional and Provincial Panel Data
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper provides empirical evidence on delinking and Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for municipal waste production in Italy. First, methodological issues and literature on delinking and EKC for waste are critically re-examined. Secondly, we analyse two very disaggregated panel datasets on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385390
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How to Measure the Unobservable: A Panel Technique for the Analysis of TFP Convergence
Liberto, Adriana Di; Mura, Roberto; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously take into account both TFP convergence and the traditional neoclassical-type of convergence. We analyse a sample of Italian regions between 1963 and 1993 and find strong evidence that both mechanisms were at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385411
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Binary Choice with Binary Endogenous Regressors in Panel Data: Estimating the Effect of Fertility on Female Labour Participation
Carrasco, Raquel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
This paper considers the estimation of binary choice panel data models with discrete endogenous regressors. We present a switching probit model which accounts for selectivity bias as well as for other forms of time invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Individual effects are allowed to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385429
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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets
Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423095
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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject to continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230865
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Industrial Coal Demand in China: A Provincial Analysis
Manera, Matteo; Cattaneo, Cristina; Scarpa, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China’s energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965192
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Institutional Explanations of Economic Development: the Role of Precious Metals
Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
in former European colonies. Where European colonizers settled, they replicated the investment-conducive institutions … the formation of institutions. We find the presence of precious metals, gold and silver, to imply an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385335
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Robust Institutions for Sustainable Water Markets: A Survey of the Literature and the Way Forward
Maziotis, Alexandros; Calliari, Elisa; Mysiak, Jaroslav - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional … highest priority is given to the role of legal and political institutions and second priority to environmental, economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671479
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Tourism and Development: A Recent Phenomenon Built on Old (Institutional) Roots?
Pigliaru, Francesco; Brau, Rinaldo; Liberto, Adriana Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
this paper we frame our starting question within the general debate about the importance of good/bad institutions as … are in fact driven by the presence of growth enhancing institutions. Our empirical analysis exploits newly available … institutions is important for growth. Yet our results strongly suggest that the weight of tourism in an economy is an independent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489588
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Informal Finance: A Theory of Moneylenders
Madestam, Andreas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
I study the coexistence of formal and informal finance in underdeveloped credit markets. While weak institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987238