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 2010
A Theory of Firm Decline, Gian Luca Clementi, Thomas Cooley, and Sonia Di Giannatale
Monitoring Managers: Does it Matter?, Francesca Cornelli, Zbigniew Kominek, and Alexander Ljungqvist
Crime and Education in a Model of Information Transmission, Darwin Cortés, Guido Friebel, and Darío Maldonado
On the Green Side of Trade Competitiveness? Environmental Policies and Innovation in the EU, Valeria Costantini and Massimiliano Mazzanti
Environmental Performance and Regional Innovation Spillovers, Valeria Costantini, Massimiliano Mazzanti, and Anna Montini
Social Responsibility as a Driver for Local Sustainable Development, Elena Costantino, Maria Paola Marchello, and Cecilia Mezzano
Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program, Maureen L. Cropper, Yi Jiang, Anna Alberini, and Patrick Baur
“Google it!” Forecasting the US Unemployment Rate with a Google Job Search index, Francesco D’Amuri and Juri Marcucci
International Cooperation on Climate Change Adaptation from an Economic Perspective, Kelly C. de Bruin, Rob B. Dellink, and Richard S.J. Tol
Modeling Biased Technical Change. Implications for Climate Policy, Enrica De Cian, Carlo Carraro, and Lea Nicita
The Role of International Carbon Offsets in a Second-best Climate Policy: A Numerical Evaluation, Enrica De Cian and Massimo Tavoni
Optimal Patentability Requirements with Fragmented Property Rights, Vincenzo Denicolò and Christine Halmenschlager
Leadership Cycles, Vincenzo Denicolo and Piercarlo Zanchettin
Spatial Development, Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Profit Sharing under the Threat of Nationalization, Luca Di Corato
A Hybrid Approach to the Valuation of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from the European Forests, Helen Ding, Silvia Silvestri, Aline Chiabai, and Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
The Causes of Corruption: Evidence from China, Bin Dong and Benno Torgler
The Consequences of Corruption: Evidences from China, Bin Dong and Benno Torgler
Resistance to Change, James Dow and Enrico Perotti
European Takeover Law: The Case for a Neutral Approach, Luca Enriques
Fairness, Credibility and Effectiveness in the Copenhagen Accord: An Economic Assessment, Alice Favero and Enrica De Cian
Optimal Investment and Financial Strategies under Tax Rate Uncertainty, Alessandro Fedele, Paolo M. Panteghini, and Sergio Vergalli
Women’s Rights and Development, Raquel Fernández
International Environmental Agreements under Uncertainty: Does the Veil of Uncertainty Help?, Michael Finus and Pedro Pintassilgo
Core-stable Rings in Second Price Auctions with Common Values, Françoise Forges and Ram Orzach
A Simple Theory of Predation, Chiara Fumagalli and Massimo Motta
Exclusive Dealing: The Interaction between Foreclosure and Investment Promotion, Chiara Fumagalli, Massimo Motta, and Thomas Rønde
Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery, Sebastian Galiani, Martín A. Rossi, and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Financial Innovation and Financial Fragility, Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny
Too Much Oil, Reyer Gerlagh
On the Road to a Unified Market for Energy Efficiency: The Contribution of White Certificates Schemes, Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet and Dominique Finon
What Drives the International Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies? Empirical Evidence from Patent Data, Matthieu Glachant, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, and Yann Ménière
Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies, Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert N. Stavins
A History of Violence: Testing the ‘Culture of Honor’ in the US South, Pauline Grosjean
The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance, Robert W. Hahn and Robert N. Stavins
Sectoral Targets for Developing Countries: Combining "Common but Differentiated Responsibilities" with "Meaningful participation", Meriem Hamdi-Cherif, Céline Guivarch, and Philippe Quirion
Second Best Environmental Policies under Uncertainty, Panos Hatzipanayotou, Fabio Antoniou, and Phoebe Koundouri
Tradable Permits vs Ecological Dumping, Panos Hatzipanayotou, Fabio Antoniou, and Phoebe Koundouri
The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets, Thomas Hellman and Enrico Perotti
Community-based Adaptation: Lessons from the Development Marketplace 2009 on Adaptation to Climate Change, Rasmus Heltberg, Radhika Prabhu, and Habiba Gitay
The Public Management of Risk: Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors, Yolande Hiriart, David Martimort, and Jerome Pouyet
Are You SURE You Want to Waste Policy Chances? Waste Generation, Landfill Diversion and Environmental Policy Effectiveness in the EU15, Valentina Iafolla, Massimiliano Mazzanti, and Francesco Nicolli
Optimal Emission Tax with Endogenous Location Choice of Duopolistic Firms, Masako Ikefuji, Jun-ichi Itaya, and Makoto Okamura
What is Different about Government-Controlled Acquirers in Cross-Border Acquisitions?, George Andrew Karolyi and Rose C. Liao
The Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma in a Network, Markus Kinateder
On the Optimal Taxation of Common-Pool Resources, Georgios Kossioris, Michael Plexousakis, Anastasios Xepapadeas, and Aart de Zeeuw
(Anti-) Coordination in Networks, Jaromir Kovarik, Friederike Mengel, and José Gabriel Romero
Harmful Signaling in Matching Markets, Alexey Kushnir
Capital Malleability and the Macroeconomic Costs of Climate Policy, Elisa Lanzi and Ian Sue Wing
Status-Seeking in Hedonic Games with Heterogeneous Players, Emiliya Lazarova and Dinko Dimitrov