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Revisiting Worst-case DEA for Composite Indicators

Athanassoglou, Stergios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods, originating in the production economics … weighting techniques by focusing on a measure of best-case relative performance. Recently, the standard DEA model for composite … analogue of standard DEA for composite indicators and show how it leads to tractable optimization problems. Finally, we compare …

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Investing in Biogas: Timing, Technological Choice and the Value of Flexibility from Inputs Mix

Moretto, Michele; Corato, Luca Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

In a continuous-time framework we study the technology and investment choice problem of a continuous co-digestion biogas plant dealing with randomly fluctuating relative convenience of input factor costs. Input factors enter into the productive process together mixed according to a given initial...

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Energy Intensity Developments in 40 Major Economies: Structural Change or Technology Improvement?

Cian, Enrica De; Schymura, Michael; Verdolini, Elena; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This study analyzes energy intensity trends and drivers in 40 major economies using the WIOD database, a novel harmonized and consistent dataset of input-output table time series accompanied by environmental satellite data. We use logarithmic mean Divisia index decomposition to (1) study trends...

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Constructing the FEEM Sustainability Index: A Choquet-integral Application

Cruciani, Caterina; Giove, Silvio; Pinar, Mehmet; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...

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Constructing the FEEM Sustainability Index: A Choquet-Integral Application

Cruciani, Caterina; Giove, Silvio; Pinar, Mehmet; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

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Measuring Service Quality: The Opinion of Europeans about Utilities

Ferrari, P. A.; Salini, S. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This paper provides a comparative analysis of statistical methods to evaluate the consumer perception about the quality of Services of General Interest. The evaluation of the service quality perceived by users is usually based on Customer Satisfaction Survey data and an ex-post evaluation is...

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Unbundling Technology Adoption and tfp at the Firm Level. Do Intangibles Matter?

Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Gatto, Massimo Del - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...

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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms: Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...

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Entry on Export Markets and Firm-Level Performance Growth: Intra-Industrial Convergence or Divergence?

Mayneris, Florian - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the endogenous investment decision of firms conditioning on export decision. It shows that theoretically, whatever the form of preferences, firms that start exporting invest more and grow more than the others. However, it is shown that when...

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Productivity Spillovers from Foreign MNEs on Domestic Manufacturing Firms: Is Co-location Always a Plus?

Mariotti, Sergio; Mutinelli, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on foreign MNEs in Italy, our results reveal that local firms do benefit from the presence of foreign MNEs, and the effect is higher when local and foreign firms in manufacturing...

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