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Follow the sun! How investments in solar power plants in Sicily can generate high returns of investments and help to prevent global warming
Schinke, Jan Christian - 2010
Germany could have reached Kyoto protocol obligations earlier if German solar investments would be relocated to Sicily. Additional benefits of emission savings and energy production should rise up to 72%. Nevertheless German solar power plants 2008 counted for 20 % of the financial benefits...
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Farmer premiums for the voluntary adoption of conservation plans
Cooper, Joseph C.; Signorello, Giovanni - 2002
Utilizing the random utility and random profit difference approaches, we develop a theoretical model that explains why farmers may require a premium in excess of the decrease in profits to adopt a conservation plan. Identification of this risk premium can aid the government in addressing...
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From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: what can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?
Ichino, Andrea; Mealli, Fabrizia; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2006
The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA assignment decreases the probability of finding a stable job, while results for Europe, based on the...
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Effects of tourism upon the economy of small and medium-sized European cities: Cultural tourists and 'the others'
Del Corpo, Barbara; Gasparino, Ugo; Bellini, Elena; … - 2008
The paper presents the results of the application of an Input-Output-based approach for the estimation of direct, indirect and induced effects of tourist spending on local economies, in a static partial equilibrium setting. The methodology has been successfully applied in three case studies...
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Abruzzo and Sicily: Catching up and lagging behind
Helg, Rodolfo; Peri, Giovanni; Viesti, Gianfranco - In: EIB Papers 5 (2000) 1, pp. 60-86
Would you expect twins to reach different heights? The comparison is perhaps not so accurate, but in the early 1950s Abruzzo and Sicily were economically very similar. Both were 'full members' of the underdeveloped Mezzogiorno, with little industry, few natural resources, poor transport...
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The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2014
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on …
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Mafia Inc.: When godfathers become entrepreneurs
Le Moglie, Marco; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2017
plagued by a conspicuous presence of mafia-type organizations. By using the exogenous credit contraction imposed by the 2007 …
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Law Enforcement, Municipal Budgets and Spillover Effects: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Italy
Galletta, Sergio - 2016
with mafia with a commission of non-elected administrators. Fixed effects model estimates that focus on a sample of …
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Sicilian Sulphur and Mafia: Resources, Working Conditions and the Practice of Violence
Ciccarelli, Carlo; Dalmazzo, Alberto; Razzolini, Tiziano - 2021
This paper reconsiders the nexus between the abundance of resources and the origins of Sicilian mafia by exploiting a … the Royal Corps of Mining Engineers at the municipal level. We find that the impact of local production on mafia was … with lower incidence of mafia. Taken together, our findings suggest that larger lodes encouraged better and more orderly …
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The social consequences of organized crime in Italy
Rolla, Pierfrancesco; Justino, Patricia - 2022
Organized crime affects security, development, and democracy worldwide, but not much is known about its social consequences. We study how exposure to the presence of organized crime groups shapes the social capital of Italian citizens, including political participation, civic engagement, and...
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