The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a no-profit, no-partisan research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable development. Recognised by the President of the Italian Republic in July 1989, it has since become a leading international research centre. One of its principal aims is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental degradation. FEEM circulates a series of working papers in English collecting the output of research in the field of economics, energy and the environment and the presentations made at international workshops and congresses. FEEM's Note di Lavoro are classified into the following series:
ASD: Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development
EET: Econometrics of the Energy Transition
GET: Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
MET: Modelling the Energy Transition
TET: Technologies for the Energy Transition
AFRICA:REP: Africa Research, Empowerment, Partnership
FEP: Future Energy Program
FACTS: Firms And Cities Towards Sustainability
ES: Economy and Society
CSI: Climate and Sustainable Innovation
MITP: Mitigation, Innovation and Transformation Pathways
CCSD: Climate Change and Sustainable Development
EIA: Climate Change: Economic Impacts and Adaptation
ERM: Energy: Resources and Markets
ESP: Energy Scenarios and Policy
SAS: Society and Sustainability
ETA: Economic Theory and Applications
Papers from 2014
Volunteering and Life or Financial Shocks: Does Income and Wealth Matter?, Tony Beatton and Benno Torgler
What are Households Willing to Pay for Better Tap Water Quality? A Cross-Country Valuation Study, Olivier Beaumais, Katrin Millock, and Céline Nauges
Is Participation in Tourism Market an Opportunity for Everyone? Some Evidence from Italy, Cristina Bernini and Maria Francesca Cracolici
How Effective Are Energy-Efficiency Incentive Programs? Evidence from Italian Homeowners, Andrea Bigano and Anna Alberini
Access to Modern Energy: a Review of Impact Evaluations, Jacopo Bonan, Stefano Pareglio, and Massimo Tavoni
Energy from Waste: Generation Potential and Mitigation Opportunity, Francesco Bosello, Lorenza Campagnolo, Fabio Eboli, and Ramiro Parrado
Climate Change Impacts and Market Driven Adaptation: the Costs of Inaction Including Market Rigidities, Francesco Bosello and Ramiro Parrado
On the Timing of Political Regime Changes: Theory and Application to the Arab Spring, Raouf Boucekkine, Fabien Prieur, and Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon
Price versus Quantities versus Indexed Quantities, Frédéric Branger and Philippe Quirion
Reaping the Carbon Rent: Abatement and Overallocation Profits in the European Cement Industry, Insights from an LMDI Decomposition Analysis, Frédéric Branger and Philippe Quirion
Opinion Dynamics and Wisdom under Conformity, Berno Buechel, Tim Hellmann, and Stefan Kölßner
Loss & Damage: a Critical Discourse Analysis, Elisa Calliari
Partnerships for a Better Governance of Natural Hazard Risks, Elisa Calliari, Jaroslav Mysiak, Silvia Santato, and María Máñez Costa
The Effect of African Growth on Future Global Energy, Emissions, and Regional Development, Katherine Calvin, Shonali Pachauri, Enrica De Cian, and Ioanna Mouratiadou
Should We Ban Unconventional Oil Extraction to Reduce Global Warming?, Samuel Carrara and Emanuele Massetti
Assessing Direct and Indirect Economic Impacts of a Flood Event Through the Integration of Spatial and Computable General Equilibrium Modelling, Lorenzo Carrera, Gabriele Standardi, Francesco Bosello, and Jaroslav Mysiak
Which Factors Explain the Rising Ethnic Heterogeneity in Italy? An Empirical Analysis at Province Level, Cristina Cattaneo
Immigration and Careers of European Workers: Effects and the Role of Policies, Cristina Cattaneo, Carlo V. Fiorio, and Giovanni Peri
What Happens to the Careers of European Workers when Immigrants "Take their Jobs"?, Cristina Cattaneo, Carlo V. Fiorio, and Giovanni Peri
Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Martino Pelli, and Beyza Ural Marchand
Renewable Energy, Subsidies, and the WTO: Where Has the ‘Green’ Gone?, Christophe Charlier and Patrice Bougette
Distortion Effects of Export Quota Policy: an Analysis of the China - Raw Materials Dispute, Christophe Charlier and Sarah Guillou
Canada – Renewable Energy: Implications for WTO Law on Green and Not-so-Green Subsidies, Steve Charnovitz and Carolyn Fischer
Global Energy Security under Different Climate Policies, GDP Growth Rates and Fossil Resource Availabilities, Aleh Cherp, Jessica Jewell, Vadim Vinichenko, Nico Bauer, and Enrica De Cian
Risk Allocation under Liquidity Constraints, Péter Csóka and P. Jean-Jacques Herings
Network Economics and the Environment: Insights and Perspectives, Sergio Currarini, Carmen Marchiori, and Alessandro Tavoni
European-Led Climate Policy Versus Global Mitigation Action. Implications on Trade, Technology, and Energy, Enrica De Cian, Ilkka Keppo, Johannes Bollen, Samuel Carrara, Hannah Förster, Michael Hübler, Amit Kanudia, Sergey Paltsev, Ronald Sands, and Katja Schumacher
Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?, Jaime de Melo and Mariana Vijil
The Critical Mass Approach to Achieve a Deal on Green Goods and Services: What is on the Table? How Much to Expect?, Jaime de Melo and Mariana Vijil
Energy Technology Expert Elicitations for Policy: Workshops, Modeling, and Meta-analysis, Laura Diaz Anadon, Gabe Chan, Valentina Bosetti, Elena Verdolini, and Gregory Nemet
Wage Incentive Profiles in Dual Labor Markets, Marco Di Cintio and Emanuele Grassi
Bidding for Conservation Contracts, Luca Di Corato, Cesare Dosi, and Michele Moretto
Farmland Investments in Africa: What’s the Deal?, Luca Di Corato and Sebastian Hess
Size, Age and the Growth of Firms: New Evidence from Quantile Regressions, Roberta Distante, Ivan Petrella, and Emiliano Santoro
Measuring Gender Differences in Information Sharing Using Network Analysis: the Case of the Austrian Interlocking Directorship Network in 2009, Carlo Drago, Livia Amidani Aliberti, and Davide Carbonai
Sharing R&D Investments in Cleaner Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change, Abeer El-Sayed and Santiago J. Rubio
Sharing of Climate Risks across World Regions, Johannes Emmerling
Delineating Spring Recharge Areas in a Fractured Sandstone Aquifer (Luxembourg) Based on Pesticide Mass Balance, Julien Farlin, Laurent Drouet, T. Gallé, D. Pittois, M. Bayerle, C. Braun, P. Maloszewski, J. Vanderborght, M. Elsner, and A. Kies
The Time Path of the Saving Rate: Hyperbolic Discounting and Short-Term Planning, Y. Hossein Farzin and Ronald Wendner
Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Interactions and Outcomes, Carolyn Fischer, Richard G. Newell, and Louis Preonas
European Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization Strategies Beyond 2030 – A Sectoral Multi-model Decomposition, Hannah Förster, Katja Schumacher, Enrica De Cian, Michael Hübler, Ilkka Keppo, Silvana Mima, and Ronald D. Sands
Trust and Manipulation in Social Networks, Manuel Förster, Ana Mauleon, and Vincent J. Vannetelbosch
Environmental Policy Performance and its Determinants: Application of a Three-level Random Intercept Model, Marzio Galeotti, Yana Rubashkina, SILVIA SALINI, and Elena Verdolini
Trust as a Key Variable of Sustainable Development and Public Happiness: A Historical and Theoretical Example Regarding the Creation of Money, Nicola Genovese and Maria Grazia La Spada
The Flushing Flow Cost: A Prohibitive River Restoration Alternative? The Case of the Lower Ebro River, Carlos Mario Gómez Gómez, Carlos Dionisio Pérez Blanco, and Ramon J. Batalla
War Size Distribution: Empirical Regularities Behind the Conflicts, Rafael González-Val
Individual Search and Social Networks, Sanjeev Goyal, Stephanie Rosenkranz, Utz Weitzel, and Vincent Buskens
Does a Renewable Fuel Standard for Biofuels Reduce Climate Costs?, Mads Greaker, Michael Hoel, and Knut Einar Rosendahl
The Politics of Market Linkage: Linking Domestic Climate Policies with International Political Economy, Jessica F. Green, Thomas Sterner, and Gernot Wagner
Why Wind Is Not Coal: On the Economics of Electricity, Lion Hirth, Falko Ueckerdt, and Ottmar Edenhofer