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Do International Roaming Alliances Harm Consumers?

Bühler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

between foreign operators would drive wholesale unit prices down to marginal costs. However, operators prefer to form … prices. Although operators compete in two-part tariffs for subscribers, wholesale roaming prices do not exhibit profit …

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Input Production Joint Venture

Rossini, Gianpaolo; Vergari, Cecilia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

In many industries it is quite common to observe firms delegating the production of essential inputs to independent ventures jointly established with competing rivals. The diffusion of this arrangement and the favourable stance of competition authorities call for the assessment of the social and...

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Exclusive Dealing: The Interaction between Foreclosure and Investment Promotion

Fumagalli, Chiara; Motta, Massimo; Rønde, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper studies a model where exclusive dealing (ED) can both promote investment and foreclose a more efficient supplier. While investment promotion is usually regarded as a pro-competitive effect of ED, our paper shows that it may be the very reason why a contract that forecloses a more...

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Corporate Preferences for Domestic Policy Instruments under a Sectoral Market Mechanism: A Case Study of Shanxi Province in China

Gao, Shuai; Cai, Wenjia; Liu, Wenling; Wang, Can; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Understanding companies’ preferences for various domestic policy instruments is crucial to designing and planning Sectoral Market Mechanism (SMM) in China. Based on a detailed overview of domestic policy instruments under SMM, this paper evaluates corporate preferences for diverse domestic...

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On the Economic Determinants of Oil Production. Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence for Small Exporting Countries

Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this paper, decisions regarding production in oil exporting countries are studied by means of theoretical analysis and empirical investigation. Under the assumptions of exogenous oil prices and world oil demand, we are able to describe the relationship between oil production levels and...

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Combined Effects of Load Factors and Booking Time on Fares: Insights from the Yield Management of a Low-Cost Airline

Alderighi, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; Piga, Claudio A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Based on two strands of theoretical research, this paper provides new evidence on how fares are jointly affected by in-flight seat availability and purchasing date. As capacity-driven theories predict, it emerges that fares monotonically and substantially increase with the flights occupancy...

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On the Relationship between R&D and Productivity: a Treatment Effect Analysis

Medda, Giuseppe; Piga, Claudio; Siegel, Donald - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship between R&D expenditures and productivity growth. The analysis considers the different contributions of various forms of R&D (product, process, internal, external in collaboration...

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Investment and Time to Plan: A Comparison of Structures vs. Equipment in a Panel of Italian Firms

Himmelberg, Charles; Boca, Alessandra del; Galeotti, Marzio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

“Time to build” models of investment expenditures play an important role in many traditional and modern theories of the business cycle, especially for explaining the dynamic propagation of shocks. We estimate the structural parameters of a time-to-build model using firm-level investment data...

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The Beginning of Organic Fish Farming in Italy

Defrancesco, Edi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

-fish. Moreover, over recent years marine fish farm profitability has been reduced because of competition from imported products. A … pilot project was carried out in order to: a) define standards for organic marine fish farming; b) evaluate production costs … pay in order to figure out the profitability of a product differentiation strategy. This paper shows the economic results …

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Non-convexities in the Adjustment of Different Capital Inputs: A Firm-level Investigation

Boca, Alessandra Del; Galeotti, Marzio; Rota, Paola - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Recent developments in investment research have highlighted the importance of non-convexities and irreversibilities in the firms’ adjustment of quasi-fixed inputs. However, aggregation across capital goods may smooth out the discontinuities associated with the adjustment of individual assets....

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