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 2013
Are Democrats Greener than Republicans? The Case of California Air Quality, Y.H. Farzin and C.A. Bond
Saving Rate Dynamics in the Neoclassical Growth Model – Hyperbolic Discounting and Observational Equivalence, Y. Hossein Farzin and Ronald Wendner
Trade of Woody Biomass for Electricity Generation under Climate Mitigation Policy, Alice Favero and Emanuele Massetti
Evaluating the Global Role of Woody Biomass as a Mitigation Strategy, Alice Favero and Robert Mendelsohn
The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: Nonlinear Effects and Aggregation Bias in Ricardian Models of Farm Land Values, Carlo Fezzi and Ian Bateman
Estimating the Value of Travel Time to Recreational Sites Using Revealed Preferences, Carlo Fezzi, Ian J. Bateman, and Silvia Ferrini
The Power of Biomass: Experts Disclose the Potential for Success of Bioenergy Technologies, Giulia Fiorese, Michela Catenacci, Valentina Bosetti, and Elena Verdolini
Energy Efficiency and Industrial Output: The Case of the Iron and Steel Industry, Florens Flues, Dirk Rübbelke, and Stefan Vögele
Investments in Quality, Collective Reputation and Information Acquisition, Fulvio Fontini, Katrin Millock, and Michele Moretto
Anonymous Social Influence, Manuel Förster, Michel Grabisch, and Agnieszka Rusinowsk
The Effect of Within-Sector, Upstream and Downstream Energy Taxes on Innovation and Productivity, Chiara Franco and Giovanni Marin
An Overview of Urban Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in Central America & the Caribbean Region, Ebru A. Gencer
Innovation Complementarity and Environmental Productivity Effects: Reality or Delusion? Evidence from the EU, Marianna Gilli, Susanna Mancinelli, and Massimiliano Mazzanti
Trade Liberalisation and Global-scale Forest Transition, Rafael González-Val and Fernando Pueyo
An Econometric Analysis of the Effectiveness of Development Finance for the Energy Sector, Giorgio Gualberti, Luis Filipe Martins, and Morgan Bazilian
Can Property Values Capture Changes in Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the UK, Dennis Guignet and Anna Alberini
East Africa: The Next Game-Changer for the Global Gas Markets?, Manfred Hafner and Simone Tagliapietra
An Exploration of the Link Between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk, Stéphane Hallegatte
Accounting for Different Uncertainties: Implications for Climate Investments?, Svenja Hector
Bottom-Up Strategic Linking of Carbon Markets: Which Climate Coalitions Would Farsighted Players Form?, Jobst Heitzig
The Global Emission Game: On the Impact of Strategic Interactions Between Countries on the Existence and the Properties of Nash Equilibria, Mélanie Heugues
Control Power and Variable Renewables A Glimpse at German Data, Lion Hirth and Inka Ziegenhagen
Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries, Michael Hoel and Aart de Zeeuw
Heterogeneous Beliefs, Regret, and Uncertainty: The Role of Speculation in Energy Price Dynamics, Marc Joëts
Bargaining and Power, Dominik Karos
Crime and regional growth in Italy, Matteo Lanzafame
Paths to Stability in Two-sided Matching with Uncertainty, Emiliya Lazarova and Dinko Dimitrov
Can Uncertainty Justify Overlapping Policy Instruments to Mitigate Emissions?, Oska Lecuyer and Philippe Quirion
The Impact of Immigration on Portuguese Intra-Industry Trade, Nuno Carlos Leitão
Marginal Intra-industry Trade and Adjustment Costs in Labour Market, Nuno Carlos Leitão, Bogdan Dima, and Stefana Dima (Cristea)
Sharing your scrap paper: The role of visual communication in mathematics learning, Min Lu
Futures Price Volatility in Commodities Markets: The Role of Short Term vs Long Term Speculation, Matteo Manera, Marcella Nicolini, and Ilaria Vignati
Mitigation and Solar Radiation Management in Climate Change Policies, Vasiliki Manousi and Anastasios Xepapadeas
The Clean Energy R&D Strategy for 2°C, Giacomo Marangoni and Massimo Tavoni
Uranium and Nuclear Power: The Role of Exploration Information in Framing Public Policy, Charles F. Mason
Decentralization, Social Capital and Regional Convergence, Luciano Mauro and Francesco Pigliaru
Robust Institutions for Sustainable Water Markets: A Survey of the Literature and the Way Forward, Alexandros Maziotis, Elisa Calliari, and Jaroslav Mysiak
Profit, Productivity, Price and Quality Performance Changes in the English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Companies, Alexandros Maziotis, David S. S. Saal, and Emmanuel Thanassoulis
A Methodology to Propose the X-Factor in the Regulated English and Welsh Water And Sewerage Companies, Alexandros Maziotis, David S: Saal, and Emmanuel Thanassoulis
Nonlinearity, Heterogeneity and Unobserved Effects in the CO2-income Relation for Advanced Countries, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Antonio Musolesi
Environmental Catastrophes under Time-Inconsistent Preferences, Thomas Michielsen
Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law and Increasing Returns to Scale: A Comparison Across Developed Countries, Emanuele Millemaci and Ferdinando Ofria
Ambiguous Beliefs on Damages and Civil Liability Theories, Gérard Mondello
Tax Competition, Investment Irreversibility and the Provision of Public Goods, Michele Moretto, Paolo Panteghini, and Sergio Vergalli
The Evolution of Core Stability in Decentralized Matching Markets, Heinrich H. Nax, Bary S. R. Pradelski, and H. Peyton Young
Environmental Policies, Product Market Regulation and Innovation in Renewable Energy, Lionel Nesta, Francesco Vona, and Francesco Nicolli
Directing Technical Change from Fossil-Fuel to Renewable Energy Innovation: An Empirical Application Using Firm-Level Patent Data, Joëlle Noailly and Roger Smeets
A Quantitative Assessment of the Implications of Including non-CO2 Emissions in the European ETS, Carlo Orecchia and Ramiro Parrado
Short and Long-term Effects of Environmental Tax, Walid Oueslati