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
Iran after the (Potential) Nuclear Deal: What’s Next for the Country’s Natural Gas Market?, Simone Tagliapietra
The EU-Turkey Energy Relations After the 2014 Ukraine Crisis. Enhancing The Partnership in a Rapidly Changing Environment, Simone Tagliapietra
Towards a European Energy Union. The Need to Focus on Security of Energy Supply, Simone Tagliapietra
Turkey as a Regional Natural Gas Hub: Myth or Reality? An Analysis of the Regional Gas Market Outlook, beyond the Mainstream Rhetoric, Simone Tagliapietra
Optimal Climate Policy for a Pessimistic Social Planner, Edilio Valentini and Paolo Vitale
What’s the Damage? Environmental Regulation with Policy-Motivated Bureaucrats, Achim Voß and Jörg Lingens
Corporate Preferences for Domestic Policy Instruments under a Sectoral Market Mechanism: A Case Study of Shanxi Province in China, Can Wang, Wenjia Cai, Wenling Liu, Shuai Gao, and ZhongXiang Zhang
Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China, Can Wang, Jie Lin, Wenjia Cab, and ZhongXiang Zhang
Energy Prices, Subsidies and Resource Tax Reform in China, ZhongXiang Zhang
Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China, ZhongXiang Zhang
From Energy-intensive to Innovation-led Growth: On the Transition Dynamics of China’s Economy, ZhongXiang Zhang and Wei Jin
Papers from 2013
Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry, Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, David Hemous, Ralf Martin, and John Van Reenen
Looking for Free-riding: Energy Efficiency Incentives and Italian Homeowners, Anna Alberini, Andrea Bigano, and Marco Boeri
Free Riding, Upsizing, and Energy Efficiency Incentives in Maryland Homes, Anna Alberini, Will Gans, and Charles Towe
The Cost of Segregation in Social Networks, Nizar Allouch
Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms: Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance, Carlo Altomonte and Armando Rungi
Auctioning vs. Grandfathering in Cap-and-Trade Systems with Market Power and Incomplete Information, Francisco Alvarez and Francisco J. André
Looking Forward from the Past: Assessing the Potential Flood Hazard and Damage in Polesine Region by Revisiting the 1950 Flood Event, Mattia Amadio, Jaroslav Mysiak, Silvano Pecora, and Alberto Agnetti
Green Investment Strategies and Export Performance: A Firm-level Investigation, Roberto Antonietti Antonietti and Alberto Marzucchi Alberto Marzucchi
Robust Multidimensional Welfare Comparisons: One Vector of Weights, One Vote, Stergios Athanassoglou
The Political Economy of Oil and the Crisis of the Arab State System, Daniel Atzori
Multinational Production and the Scope of Innovation, Sasan Bakhtiari, Antonio Minniti, and Alireza Naghavi
Biofuels and Food Prices: Searching for the Causal Link, Andrea Bastianin, Marzio Galeotti, and Matteo Manera
Food versus Fuel: Causality and Predictability in Distribution, Andrea Bastianin, Marzio Galeotti, and Matteo Manera
Unbundling Technology Adoption and tfp at the Firm Level. Do Intangibles Matter?, Michele Battisti, Filippo Belloc, and Massimo Del Gatto
Bargaining and Delay in Trading Networks, Mikel Bedayo, Ana Mauleon, and Vincent Vannetelbosch
Destination Image Built by the Cinema: The Case of “Basilicata Coast to Coast”, Angelo Bencivenga, Livio Chiarullo, Delio Colangelo, and Annalisa Percoco
Bioenergy and CO2 Sequestration: Climate Policies Beyond Technological Constraints, Ruben Bibas and Aurélie Méjean
Solar Grid Parity Dynamics in Italy: A Real Option Approach, Tommaso Biondi and Michele Moretto
Macroeconomic Impacts of the EU 30% GHG Mitigation Target, Francesco Bosello, Lorenza Campagnolo, Carlo Carraro, Fabio Eboli, Ramiro Parrado, and Elisa Portale
Climate Change and Adaptation: The Case of Nigerian Agriculture, Francesco Bosello, Lorenza Campagnolo, and Fabio Eboli
Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Coastal Disasters. A Review of Modeling Practices, Francesco Bosello and Enrica De Cian
Taxing Carbon under Market Incompleteness, Valentina Bosetti and Marco Maffezzoli
Clean and Dirty International Technology Diffusion, Valentina Bosetti and Elena Verdolini
Climate Policies: A Burden or a Gain?, Thierry Bréchet and Henry Tulkens
Robust Control of a Spatially Distributed Commercial Fishery, William A. Brock, Anastasios Xepapadeas, and Athanasios. N. Yannacopoulos
Adjustment Costs and Long Run Spatial Agglomerations, William Brock, Anastasios Xepapadeas, and Athanasios Yannacopoulos
Can Climate Policy Enhance Sustainability?, Lorenza Campagnolo, Carlo Carraro, Marinella Davide, Fabio Eboli, Elisa Lanzi, and Ramiro Parrado
Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Modeling with Marginal Abatement Cost Curves: Technical Change, Emission Scenarios and Policy Costs, Samuel Carrara and Giacomo Marangoni
Quantifying Sustainability: A New Approach and World Ranking, Carlo Carraro, Lorenza Campagnolo, Fabio Eboli, Elisa Lanzi, Ramiro Parrado, and Elisa Portale
The Optimal Energy Mix in Power Generation and the Contribution from Natural Gas in Reducing Carbon Emissions to 2030 and Beyond, Carlo Carraro, Massimo Tavoni, Thomas Longden, and Giacomo Marangoni
Going Electric: Expert Survey on the Future of Battery Technologies for Electric Vehicles, Michela Catenacci, Elena Verdolini, Valentina Bosetti, and Nadia Ameli
Waste Prevention and Social Preferences: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations, Grazia Cecere, Susanna Mancinelli, and Massimiliano Mazzanti
Energy Poverty Alleviation and Climate Change Mitigation: Is There a Trade off?, Shoibal Chakravarty and Massimo Tavoni
Cheap Talk with Correlated Signals, A.K.S. Chand, Sergio Currarini, and Giovanni Ursino
A Fear Index to Predict Oil Futures Returns, Julien Chevallier and Benoît Sévi
North / South Contractual Design through the REDD+ Scheme, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Jean-Christophe Poudou, and Sébastien Roussel
Optimal Truncation in Matching Markets, Peter Coles and Ran Shorrer
Climate Variability, Child Labour and Schooling: Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margin, Jonathan Colmer
Constructing the FEEM Sustainability Index: A Choquet-integral Application, Caterina Cruciani, Silvio Giove, Mehmet Pinar, and Matteo Sostero