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 2009
Cultural Identity and Knowledge Creation in Cosmopolitan Cities, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Prarolo
SME, Exports, Argentina, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Christian Volpe Martincus
Endogenous Network Dynamics, Frank H. Page and Myrna H. Wooders
Climate Change Assessment and Agriculture in General Equilibrium Models: Alternative Modeling Strategies, Ruslana Palatnik and Roberto Roson
Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms, Fausto Panunzi, Andrew Ellul, and Marco Pagano
Overdependence on Credit Ratings Was a Primary Cause of the Crisis, Frank Partnoy
Health-enhancing Activities and the Environment: How Competition for Resources makes the Environmental Policy Beneficial, Xavier Pautrel
Macroeconomic Implications of Demography for the Environment: A Life-Cycle Perspective, Xavier Pautrel
Time-separable Utility, Leisure and Human Capital Accumulation: What New Implications for the Environment-Growth Nexus?, Xavier Pautrel
Power in the Heterogeneous Connections Model: The Emergence of Core-Periphery Networks, Dotan Persitz
Optimal Equilibria of the Best Shot Game, Paolo Pin, Luca Dall'Asta, and Abolfazl Ramezanpour
Double Irreversibility and Environmental Policy Design, Aude Pommeret and Fabien Prieur
Cultural Diversity and Economic Performance: Evidence from European Regions, Giovanni Prarolo, Elena Bellini, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, and Dino Pinelli
Changing the Allocation Rules in the EU ETS: Impact on Competitiveness and Economic Efficiency, Philippe Quirion and Damien Demailly
Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of Tradable White Certificates Compared to Taxes, Subsidies and Regulations, Philippe Quirion and Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet
Paying for Safety: Preferences for Mortality Risk Reductions on Alpine Roads, Christoph M. Rheinberger
The Role of Forests as Carbon Sinks: Land-Use and Carbon Accounting, Renato Rosa, Clara Costa Duarte, and Maria A Cunha-e-Sá
Input Production Joint Venture, Gianpaolo Rossini and Cecilia Vergari
Effects of the CDM on Poverty Eradication and Global Climate Protection, Dirk T.G. Rübbelke and Nathan Rive
Does Social Capital Create Trust? Evidence from a Community of Entrepreneurs, Fabio Sabatini
The Fragility of Social Capital, Fabio Sabatini, Angelo Antoci, and Mauro Sodini
The Role of Information Provision as a Policy Instrument to Supplement Environmental Taxes: Empowering Consumers to Choose Optimally, Eftichios Sophocles Sartzetakis, Anastasios Xepapadeas, and Emmanuel Petrakis
On Regulation and Competition: Pros and Cons of a Diversified Monopolist, Carlo Scarpa and Giacomo Calzolari
Gender Differences in Output Quality and Quantity under Competition and Time Constraints: Evidence from a Pilot Study, Olga Shurchkov
The Pace of Technology Transfer in Anticipation of Joint Venture Breakup, Raphael Soubeyran, Ngo Van Long, and Antoine Soubeyran
Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate, Robert Stavins and Judson Jaffe
Imperfections in the Economics of Public Policy, Imperfections in Markets, and Climate Change, Nicholas Stern
Incorporating Fairness Motives into the Impulse Balance Equilibrium and Quantal Response Equilibrium Concepts: An Application to 2x2 Games, Alessandro Tavoni
Climate Change Mitigation Strategies in Fast-Growing Countries: The Benefits of Early Action, Massimo Tavoni, Valentina Bosetti, and Carlo Carraro
Nuclear versus Coal plus CCS: A Comparison of Two Competitive Base-load Climate Control Options, Massimo Tavoni and Bob van der Zwaan
Article 82 EC – The Problems and The Solution, John Temple Lang
Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch and Systemic Bailouts, Jean Tirole and Emmanuel Farhi
Environmental Participation and Environmental Motivation, Benno Torgler, María A. García Valiñas, and Alison Macintyre
“Mitigation, Adaptation, Suffering”: In Search of the Right Mix in the Face of Climate Change, Henry Tulkens and Vincent van Steenberghe
Enforcement and Environmental Quality in a Decentralized Emission Trading System, Edilio Valentini and Alessio D'Amato
Non-Uniqueness of Equilibria in One-Shot Games of Strategic Communication, Irene Valsecchi
An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Energy Security Policy, Bob van der Zwaan, Johannes Bollen, and Sebastiaan Hers
Contractually Stable Networks, Vincent Vannetelbosch, Jean-François Caulier, and Ana Mauleon
Connections Among Farsighted Agents, Vincent Vannetelbosch, Gilles Grandjean, and Ana Mauleon
"It Is Never too late": Optimal Penalty for Investment Delay in Public Procurement Contracts, Sergio Vergalli, Chiara D’Alpaos, Michele Moretto, and Paola Valbonesi
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?, Sergio Vergalli and Laura Poddi
General Pattern Formation in Recursive Dynamical Systems Models in Economics, Anastasios Xepapadeas and William Brock
Environmental Policy, Spatial Spillovers and the Emergence of Economic Agglomerations, Anastasios Xepapadeas and Efthymia Kyriakopoulou
Total Factor Productivity Growth when Factors of Production Generate Environmental Externalities, Anastasios Xepapadeas and Dimitra Vouvaki
Long Term Changes in Voting Power and Control Structure following the Unification of Dual Class Shares, Yishay Yafeh and Beni Lauterbach
Is It Fair to Treat China as a Christmas Tree to Hang Everybody’s Complaints? Putting its Own Energy Saving into Perspective, Zhongxiang Zhang
Multilateral Trade Measures in a Post-2012 Climate Change Regime?: What Can Be Taken from the Montreal Protocol and the WTO?, Zhongxiang Zhang
The Future of Securities Regulation, Luigi Zingales
Papers from 2008
On the Economics of Rational Self-Medication, Wisdom Akpalu
The Determinants of Suppliers’ Performance in E-Procurement: Evidence from the Italian Government’s E-Procurement Platform, Gian Luigi Albano, Federico Dini, Roberto Zampino, and Marta Fana