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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320993
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Application of Technological Control Measures on Vehicle Pollution: A Cost-Benefit Analysis in China
Nunes, Paulo Augusto; Wu, Qiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
For the past two decades, China has experienced strong, continuous economic growth. At the same time, the number of … motor vehicles in China has rapidly increased. As a direct result of such a phenomenon, China has been registering … China’s major cities, and constitutes an important issue in the agenda of its policy makers. The object of this paper is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392553
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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392551
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Corruption and Social Interaction: Evidence from China
Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
-country evidence at the province-level in China during 1998 to 2007. Panel data evidence clearly indicates that social interaction has … a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828390
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ETS and Technological Innovation: A Random Matching Model
Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
The present paper investigates the functioning of an Emission Trading System (ETS) and its impact on the diffusion of environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms’ strategic behaviours and sanctions to non-compliant firms. For this purpose, we study an evolutionary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904915
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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
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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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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
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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
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On the Mechanism of International Technology Diffusion for Energy Technological Progress
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
International diffusion of energy-saving technologies has received considerable attention in recent energy and climate economics studies. As a helpful methodological complement to the existing large-scale CGE/IAM–based modelling for energy and climate policy studies, this paper contributes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268611