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Climate Amenities and Adaptation to Climate Change: A Hedonic-Travel Cost Approach for Europe

Barrios, Salvador; Rivas, J. Nicolás Ibañez - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We investigate the impact of climatic change on welfare in European regions using a hedonic travel-cost framework and focusing on tourism demand. Our hedonic price estimations combine detailed hotel price information with tourism-specific travel cost estimations for each pair of EU region. This...

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Time is of the Essence: Adaptation of Tourism Demand to Climate Change in Europe

Barrios, Salvador; Ibañez, J. Nicolás - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

This study analyses the potential impact of climate change on EU tourism demand and provides long-term (2100) scenarios accounting for adaptation in terms of holiday duration. Our long-term projections for tourism demand are based on hedonic valuation of climatic conditions combining hotel price...

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Profit Sharing under the Threat of Nationalization

Corato, Luca Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...

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From the Theory of the Firm to FDI and Internalisation: A Survey

Gattai, Valeria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper surveys recent contributions on the Internalisation issue, based on different theories of the firm, to show how the make-or-buy decision, at an international level, has been assessed through the opening up of the “black box” - traditionally explored by the theorists of the firm...

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Punish and Perish?

Antoci, Angelo; Zarri, Luca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

The evolution of large-scale cooperation among genetic strangers is a fundamental unanswered question in the social sciences. Behavioral economics has persuasively shown that so called ‘strong reciprocity’ plays a key role in accounting for the endogenous enforcement of cooperation. Insofar...

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On the Size and Structure of Group Cooperation

Haag, Matthew; Lagunoff, Roger - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper examines characteristics of cooperative behavior in a repeated, n-person, continuous action generalization of a Prisoner’s Dilemma game. When time preferences are heterogeneous and bounded away from one, how “much” cooperation can be achieved by an ongoing group? How does group...

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Anonymous Social Influence

Förster, Manuel; Grabisch, Michel; Rusinowsk, Agnieszka - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

We study a stochastic model of influence where agents have “yes” or “no” inclinations on some issue, and opinions may change due to mutual influence among the agents. Each agent independently aggregates the opinions of the other agents and possibly herself. We study influence processes...

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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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Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants’ Livelihood in Genoa

Alzetta, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European … societies as well as in original sending countries. Migration has been and continues to be a ubiquitous human experience. Yet … be quite underestimated in media, public opinion and academia. It is the idea that “ethnicity” can be approached …

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