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Advocatus, et non latro? Testing the Supplier-Induced-Demand Hypothesis for Italian Courts of Justice
Buonanno, Paolo; Galizzi, Matteo M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
We explore the relationship between litigation rates and the number of lawyers, in a typical supplier-induced demand (SID) frame. Drawing on an original panel dataset for the 169 Italian courts of justice between 2000 and 2007, we first document that the number of lawyers is positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467320
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Destination Image Built by the Cinema: The Case of “Basilicata Coast to Coast”
Bencivenga, Angelo; Chiarulo, Livio; Colangelo, Delio; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Film tourism, meaning the phenomenon that is born of the desire to visit film locations, has been the object of increasing attention in recent years. This document presents the results of a field research conducted with the aim of analysing the effects of the film "Basilicata Coast to Coast", by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603770
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Economics of Literary Translation. A Simple Theory and Evidence
Weber, Shlomo; Ginsburgh, Victor; Weyers, Sheila - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
Books are an important factor of cultural transmission, but need, in most cases, to be translated. According to some authors, this may lead to a form of cultural domination of English. The population speaking English as a first language is, with the exception of Mandarin, the largest in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230896
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The Music Market in the Age of Download
Grassi, Iacopo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
Internet, mp3 files, peer-to-peer software and digital technologies for copying have radically modified the music sector. In this paper I present a theoretical model, that investigates the consequences of the appearance of a pirate low quality good (typically a mp3 file) in the music market. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385503
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Coastal Zone Management in the Mediterranean: Legal and Economic Perspectives
Markandya, Anil; Arnold, S.; Cassinelli, M.; Taylor, T. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
success. A summary of the main pressures facing these zones is given, followed by an analysis of the legislation covering …. We find that not all of these states have legislation specifically covering coastal zones, but there is concern in all … areas that the legislation is not working, We also look at the costs and benefits of controlling coastal development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987231
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The Cost of Segregation in Social Networks
Allouch, Nizar - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904919
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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
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Domestic Politics and the Formation of International Environmental Agreements
Dietz, Simon; Marchiori, Carmen; Tavoni, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
The theory of international environmental agreements overwhelmingly assumes that governments engage as unitary agents. Each government makes choices based on benefits and costs that are simple national aggregates, and similarly on a single set of national-level motivations, together drawing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904936
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Modesty Pays: Sometimes!
Finus, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
Standard non-cooperative game theoretical models of international environmental agreements (IEAs) draw a pessimistic picture of the prospective of successful cooperation: only small coalitions are stable that achieve only little. However, there also exist IEAs with higher participation and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385341
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Political Cycles : The Opposition Advantage
Gautier, Pascal; Soubeyran, Raphael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
We propose a two dimensional infinite horizon model of public consumption in which investments are decided by a winner-take-all election. Investments in the two public goods create a linkage across periods and parties have different specialities. We show that the incumbent party vote share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385348