Similar Search Results

The Solaria Syndrome: Social Capital in a Growing Hyper-technological Economy

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a “socially sustainable” economic growth. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642149

Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385405

ETS and Technological Innovation: A Random Matching Model

Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

technology or keep on using the old technology that requires pollution permits to operate and that the strategy whose expected …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904915

Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment

Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica De; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904922

Leadership and International Climate Cooperation

Schwerhoff, Gregor - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904926

E-participation: Social Capital and the Internet

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941053

Directed Technical Change With Capital-Embodied Technologies: Implications For Climate Policy

Lennox, James A.; Witajewski, Jan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941058

On the Mechanism of International Technology Diffusion for Energy Technological Progress

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

the fundamental mechanism of international technology diffusion for energy technological growth. We first develop an … is described as an expansion of energy technology variety. We show that in both models there is a cross …-country convergence in the growth rate of energy technology in a long-run balanced growth path, but the absolute levels of energy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268611

The WITCH Model. Structure, Baseline, Solutions

Bosetti, Valentina; Massetti, Emanuele; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

detailed information on the evolution of energy demand, technology and CO2 emissions. We also explain the procedure used to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385396

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