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Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites
Akerman, Anders; Larsson, Anna; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320995
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firms’ Performance: A Stratigraphical Analysis
Comincioli, Nicola; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603761
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?
Vergalli, Sergio; Poddi, Laura - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Over the last two decades in OECD countries increasingly more firms are certifying as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that a certain firm’s behaviour is environmentally and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008029
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The Push Factors for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Probit Analysis
Cominetti, Paolo; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
In the last two decades in OECD countries there has been increased development of Social Responsible (CSR is the acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility) certified firms. This certification is assigned by public and private companies which guarantee that the behaviour of a certain firm is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584503
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?
Comincioli, Nicola; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561652
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Democracy, Property Rights, Income Equality, and Corruption
Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828379
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: a Survey of the Literature
Borghesi, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it eventually decreases as income exceeds a threshold level. The present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391480
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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets
Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423095
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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230865
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An Empirical Contribution to the Debate on Corruption,Democracy and Environmental Policy
Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Gerlagh, Reyer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
. Finally, and more optimistically, when we consider our results in the context of institutions and growth, we conclude that …Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570316