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 2012
Ambiguous Aggregation of Expert Opinions: The Case of Optimal R&D Investment, Stergios Athanassoglou, Valentina Bosetti, and Gauthier de Maere d'Aertrycke
Impacts of Border Carbon Adjustments on China’s Sectoral Emissions: Simulations with a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model, Qin Bao, Ling Tang, ZhongXiang Zhang, Han Qiao, and Shouyang Wang
Oil Price Forecast Evaluation with Flexible Loss Functions, Andrea Bastianin, Matteo Manera, Anil Markandya, and Elisa Scarpa
The Effect of Fair Trade Affiliation on Child Schooling: Evidence from a Sample of Chilean Honey Producers, Leonardo Becchetti, Stefano Castriota, and Melania Michetti
The Possibilities for the Development of Tourism in the Appennino Lucano Val d'Agri Lagonegrese National Park: A Participative Qualitative-Quantitative Approach, Angelo Bencivenga, Margaretha Breil, Mariaester Cassinelli, Livio Chiarullo, and Annalisa Percoco
The Carousel Value-added Tax Fraud in the European Emission Trading System, Maria Berrittella and Filippo Alessandro Cimino
Evaluating the Impacts of the EU-ETS on Prices, Investments and Profits of the Italian Electricity Market, Francesca Bonenti, Giorgia Oggioni, Elisabetta Allevi, and Giacomo Marangoni
Brown Sunsets and Green Dawns in the Industrial Sector: Environmental Innovations, Firm Behavior and the European Emission Trading, Simone Borghesi, Giulio Cainelli, and Massimiliano Mazzanti
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Climate Change. An Updated CGE Point of View, Francesco Bosello, Fabio Eboli, and Roberta Pierfederici
Incentives and Stability of International Climate Coalitions: An Integrated Assessment, Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Enrica De Cian, Emanuele Massetti, and Massimo Tavoni
The Future Prospect of PV and CSP Solar Technologies: An Expert Elicitation Survey, Valentina Bosetti, Michela Catenacci, Giulia Fiorese, and Elena Verdolini
Migration, Cultural Diversity and Innovation: A European Perspective, Valentina Bosetti, Cristina Cattaneo, and Elena Verdolini
A Good Opening: The Key to Make the Most of Unilateral Climate Action, Valentina Bosetti and Enrica De Cian
Beyond GDP: Modelling Labour Supply as a ‘Free Time’ Trade-off in a Multiregional Optimal Growth Model, Valentina Bosetti and Frédéric Ghersi
Light Duty Vehicle Transportation and Global Climate Policy: The Importance of Electric Drive Vehicles, Valentina Bosetti and Thomas Longden
Spatial Climate-Economic Models in the Design of Optimal Climate Policies across Locations, William A. Brock, Gustav Engström, and Anastasios Xepapadeas
Optimal Agglomerations in Dynamic Economics, William A. Brock, Anastasios Xepapadeas, and Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos
Energy Balance Climate Models and the Spatial Structure of Optimal Mitigation Policies, William Brock, Gustav Engstrom, and Anastasios Xepapadeas
Energy Balance Climate Models, Damage Reservoirs and the Time Profile of Climate Change Policy, William Brock, Gustav Engstrom, and Anastasios Xepapadeas
Can Numerical Models Estimate Indirect Land-use Change?, Thierry Brunelle and Patrice Dumas
Civic Capital and the Size Distribution of Plants: Short-Run Dynamics and Long-Run Equilibrium, Matthias Bürker and G. Alfredo Minerva
Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European carbon market, Raphael Calel and Antoine Dechezleprêtre
Energy-Based Economic Development: Mapping the Developing Country Context, Sanya Carley, Sameeksha Desai, and Morgan Bazilian
Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment, Carlo Carraro, Enrica De Cian, and Massimo Tavoni
Multicultural Cities, Communication and Transportation Improvements. An Empirical Analysis for Italy, Cristina Cattaneo
The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation, Gabriel Chan, Robert Stavins, Robert Stowe, and Richard Sweeney
Oil Revenues, Ethnic Fragmentation and Political Transition of Authoritarian Regimes, Alessandro Cologni and Matteo Manera
Corporate Social Responsibility and Firms’ Performance: A Stratigraphical Analysis, Nicola Comincioli, Laura Poddi, and Sergio Vergalli
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?, Nicola Comincioli, Laura Poddi, and Sergio Vergalli
The Push Factors for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Probit Analysis, Paolo Cominetti, Laura Poddi, and Sergio Vergalli
Are all High-Skilled Cohorts Created Equal? Unemployment, Gender, and Research Productivity, John P. Conley, Ali Sina Önder, and Benno Torgler
Constructing the FEEM Sustainability Index: A Choquet-Integral Application, Caterina Cruciani, Silvio Giove, Mehmet Pinar, and Matteo Sostero
Identity, Homophily and In-Group Bias, Sergio Currarini and Friederike Menge
Finding Maxmin Allocations in Cooperative and Competitive Fair Division, Marco Dall'Aglio and Camilla Di Luca
Time Overruns as Opportunistic Behavior in Public Procurement, Chiara D’Alpaos, Michele Moretto, Paola Valbonesi, and Sergio Vergalli
Environmental Regulation and the Cross-border Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from Automobile Patents, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Richard Perkins, and Eric Neumayer
Technology Spillovers Embodied in International Trade: Intertemporal, regional and sectoral effects in a global CGE, Enrica De Cian and Ramiro Parrado
Trade in a 'Green Growth' Development Strategy, Jaime de Melo
Optimal Conservation Policy Under Imperfect Intergenerational Altruism, Luca Di Corato
Land Conversion Pace under Uncertainty and Irreversibility: too fast or too slow?, Luca Di Corato, Michele Moretto, and Sergio Vergalli
Domestic Politics and the Formation of International Environmental Agreements, Simon Dietz, Carmen Marchiori, and Alessandro Tavoni
Should We Be Worried About the Green Paradox? Announcement Effects of the Acid Rain Program, Corrado Di Maria, Ian Lange, and Edwin van der Werf
Procurement with Unenforceable Contract Time and the Law of Liquidated Damages, Cesare Dosi and Michele Moretto
Disentangling the Stern/Nordhaus Controversy: Beyond the Discounting Clash, Etienne Espagne, Baptiste Perrissin Fabert, Antonin Pottier, Franck Nadaud, and Patrice Dumas
Advanced Biofuels: Future Perspectives from an Expert Elicitation Survey, Giulia Fiorese, Michela Catenacci, Elena Verdolini, and Valentina Bosetti
Land-use Change and Solar Energy Production: A Real Option Approach, Ardjan Gazheli and Luca Di Corato
Development Accounting with Intermediate Goods, Jan Grobovšek
Relaxing Constraints as a Conservation Policy, Ben Groom and Charles Palmer
The Role of Oscillatory Modes in U.S. Business Cycles, Andreas Groth, Michael Ghil, Stéphane Hallegatte, and Patrice Dumas
Development Finance for Universal Energy Access, Giorgio Gualberti, Morgan Bazilian, Erik Haites, and Maria da Graça Carvalho