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Are Preferences for Environmental Quality Sensitive to Financial Funding Schemes? Evidence from a Marine Restoration Programme in the Black Sea
Remoundou, Kyriaki; Adaman, Fikret; Koundouri, Phoebe; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
This paper uses a non-market valuation study to elicit consumers’ preferences for a marine restoration programme in the Black Sea aiming to reduce the level of public health risk from bathing and improve water quality and the overall level of marine biodiversity. In this context, we administer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131108
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Privatization in Africa: What has happened? What is to be done?
Nellis, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
Sub-Saharan African states urgently need expanded and more dynamic private sectors, more efficient and effective infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to address these problems. But African states have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570284
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The Evolution of Enterprise Reform in Africa: From State-owned Enterprises to Private Participation in Infrastructure — and Back?
Nellis, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
Many African state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those in infrastructure, have a long history of poor performance. From the outset, SOE financial and economic performance generally failed to meet the expectations of their creators and funders. By the late 1970s, the situation was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570288
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Greening Up or Not? The Determinants Political Parties’ Environmental Concern: An Empirical Analysis Based on European Data (1970-2008)
Michallet, Benjamin; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Facchini, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers examine the determinants of citizens’ pro-environmental behaviour, we know little about the extent to which political parties adjust their platform towards environmentalism. We investigate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268604
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A Stage Model of Developing an Inclusive Community
Vaughn, Billy E.; Mlekov, Katarina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The Community Inclusion model described in this paper characterizes the stages through which a diverse group of people living within the same community develops into an inclusive community. The model is described in terms of its usefulness in the assessment of a community’s current stage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385413
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Gender Issue and Water Management in the Mediterranean Basin, Middle East and North Africa
Minoia, Giulia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
This article aims to investigate some aspects of the social process related to water resources management and gender relations. Given that gender and water management are interrelated issues exposed to a growing attention at the international level, it is therefore necessary to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385481
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Measurement and Spatial Effects of the Immigrant Created Cultural Diversity in Sydney
Lalich, Walter F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper analyses the contribution to the creation of a culturally diverse Sydney landscape by ethnic communities following the arrival of over a million and half non-English speaking settlers since 1948. Through fragmented collective actions, around 450 communal places were established to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385486
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Criminal Networks: Who is the Key Player?
Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves; Lee, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
We analyze delinquent networks of adolescents in the United States. We develop a dynamic network formation model showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime level. We then structurally estimate our model using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552190
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A History of Violence: Testing the ‘Culture of Honor’ in the US South
Grosjean, Pauline - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor … provides a test of the link between Scotch-Irish settlers and the culture of honor. The results confirm that high numbers of … stronger in counties with high headcounts of pigs and sheep in the 19th century, confirming the herding origin of the culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467305
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”Thou shalt not covet ...”: Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values
Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral values that (internally) sanction prohibited actions and their desire may increase utility by reducing self-control costs, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467325