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
Agricultural Insurances Based on Meteorological Indices: Realizations, Methods and Research Agenda, Antoine Leblois and Philippe Quirion
Static and Dynamic Efficiency of Irreversible Health Care Investments under Alternative Payment Rules, Rosella Levaggi, Michele Moretto, and Paolo Pertile
Religious Organizations, Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin
Executive Compensation: Facts, Gian Luca Clementi and Thomas Cooley
Towards a Better Understanding of Disparities in Scenarios of Decarbonization: Sectorally Explicit Results from the RECIPE Project, Gunnar Luderer, Valentina Bosetti, Michael Jakob, Jan Steckel, Henri Waisman, and Ottmar Edenhofer
Improving Education as Key to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Developing Countries, Wolfgang Lutz
Parallel Imports and Innovation in an Emerging Economy, Andrea Mantovani and Alireza Naghavi
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the fall of the Berlin Wall: Review of the Changes in the Environment and Natural Resources, Anil Markandya and Wan-Jung Chou
Investments and Financial Flows Induced by Climate Mitigation Policies, Emanuele Massetti, Andrea Bastianini, and Alice Favero
The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills Across Sectors, Emanuele Massetti and Lea Nicita
A Numerical Analysis of Optimal Extraction and Trade of Oil under Climate Policy, Emanuele Massetti and Fabio Sferra
Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence, Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi, and Giovanni Prarolo
Risky Activities and Strict Liability Rules: Delegating Safety, Gérard Mondello
The Paradox of New Members in the EU Council of Ministers: A Non-cooperative Bargaining Analysis, Maria Montero
Licences, "Use or Lose" Provisions and the Time of Investment, Michele Moretto and Cesare Dosi
Social Capital and Political Accountability, Tommaso Nannicini, Andrea Stella, Guido Tabellini, and Ugo Troiano
Waste Generation and Landfill Diversion Dynamics: Decentralised Management and Spatial Effects, Francesco Nicolli, Massimiliano Mazzanti, and Anna Montini
Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation, Joëlle Noailly
European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services: An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Helen Ding, and Sonja Teelucksingh
Recreational, Cultural and Aesthetic Services from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems, Paulo Augusto Nunes, Andrea Ghermandi, Rosimeiry Portela, Nalini Rao, and Sonja S. Teelucksingh
Information, Stability and Dynamics in Networks under Institutional Constraints, Norma Olaizola and Federico Valenciano
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture, Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins
Fatter Attraction: Marital Status and the Relationship between BMI and Labor Supply, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque
Beyond the Home Market Effect: Market Size and Specialization in a Multi-Country World, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Kristian Behrens, Andrea R. Lamorgese, and Takatoshi Tabuchi
Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the “New” Gains from Trade, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Gregory Corcos, Massimo Del Gatto, and Giordano Mion
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri, and Greg C. Wright
Valuation of Linkages between Climate Change, Biodiversity and Productivity of European Agro-Ecosystems, Ruslana Rachel Palatnik and Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou
Environmental Policy, Education and Growth with Finite Lifetime: the Role of Abatement Technology, Xavier Pautrel
Path Dependence, Institutions and the Density of Economic Activities: Evidence from Italian Cities, Marco Percoco
Second-Best Optimal Taxation of Oil and Capital in a Small Open Economy, Alberto Petrucci
Tourism and Development: A Recent Phenomenon Built on Old (Institutional) Roots?, Francesco Pigliaru, Rinaldo Brau, and Adriana Di Liberto
Internal Migration Across Italian regions: Macroeconomic Determinants and Accommodating Potential for a Dualistic Economy, Romano Piras
Climate Change Adaptation, Development, and International Financial Support: Lessons from EU Pre-Accession and Solidarity Funds, Valentin Przyluski and Stéphane Hallegatte
Group Bargaining and Conflict, Nicolas Quérou
Are Academics Messy? Testing the Broken Windows Theory with a Field Experiment in the Work Environment, João Ramos and Benno Torgler
Returns to Migration, Education, and Externalities in the European Union, Andrés Rodriguez-Pose and Vassilis Tselios
Neoclassical Growth, Environment and Technological Change: The Environmental Kuznets Curve, Santiago J. Rubio, J.R. García, and J.L. Hueso
Job Instability and Family Planning: Insights from the Italian Puzzle, Fabio Sabatini
The Impact of Unilateral Climate Policy with Endogenous Plant Location and Market Size Asymmetry, Francesca Sanna-Randaccio and Roberta Sestini
Youth Unemployment Challenges in Mining Areas of Ghana, Paul Sarfo-Mensah, M.K. Adjaloo, and P. Donkor
Traditional Representations of the Natural Environment and Biodiversity Conservation: Sacred Groves in Ghana, Paul Sarfo-Mensah, Ernestina Antoh Fredua, William Oduro, and Stephen Amisah
Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions about the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion, Paul Sarfo-Mensah and William Oduro
Loving Cultural Heritage. Private Individual Giving and Prosocial Behavior, Giovanni Signorello, Enrico Bertacchini, and Walter Santagata
The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled after 100 Years, Robert Stavins
Diffusion of Innovations on Community Based Small Worlds: the Role of Correlation between Social Spheres, Emily Tanimura
The Survival of the Conformist: Social Pressure and Renewable Resource Management, Alessandro Tavoni, Maja Schlüter, and Simon Levin
Biodiversity Valuation in Developing Countries: A Focus on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Sonja S. Teelucksingh and Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
Illiquidity and all its Friends, Jean Tirole
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jean Tirole and Roland Bénabou