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Intellectual Property Rights and South-North Formation of Global Innovation Networks

Comune, Maria; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

With the rise of the knowledge economy, delivering sound innovation policies requires a thorough understanding of how … Global Innovation Networks (GINs), to shed light on how the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) influences … innovation or in patenting activities abroad. …

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Leadership Cycles

Denicolò, Vincenzo; Zanchettin, Piercarlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …

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Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services. Micro-Evidence from Italy

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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Civic Capital and the Size Distribution of Plants: Short-Run Dynamics and Long-Run Equilibrium

Bürker, Matthias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...

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Estimating the Value of Oil Capital in a Small Open Economy: the Venezuela’s Example

Aniyar, Sara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The paper focuses in the calculation of the oil capital value in a small open economy depending on oil rents. The Venezuelan case is used as an example. In valuing the oil capital, two issues are recalled and discussed: how should the exploration costs and the capital gains be treated? It is...

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Robust Institutions for Sustainable Water Markets: A Survey of the Literature and the Way Forward

Maziotis, Alexandros; Calliari, Elisa; Mysiak, Jaroslav - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional economics school of thoughts which is based on Williamson, North, Coase and Ostrom theories on transaction cost economics, property rights and collective actions. Based on these...

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Vertical Integration and Investor Protection in Developing Countries

Macchiavello, Rocco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The industrial organization of developing countries is characterized by the pervasive use of subcontracting arrangements among small, financially constrained firms. This paper asks whether vertical integration relaxes those financial constraints. It shows that vertical integration trades off the...

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Firm Heterogeneity, Contract Enforcement, and the Industry Dynamics of Offshoring

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm’s production chain between a home upstream division and a foreign downstream...

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Corruption, Exogenous Changes in Incentives and Deterrence

Vita, Giuseppe Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

In this article we apply and extend the model elaborated by Acemoglu and Verdier in their seminal paper (2000), to examine how the economy represented in their theoretical framework responds to an exogenous change in the agent's incentive. In particular, we focus on the consequences of a famous...

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