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 2008
Language Diversity in Urban Landscapes: An Econometric Study, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Laura Onofri, Durk Gorter, and Jasone Cenoz
Structural Change, Environment and Well-being: Interactions Between Production and Consumption Choices of the Rich and the Poor in Developing Countries, Angelo Antoci, Paolo Russu, and Elisa Ticci
Export, Assembly-line FDI or FDI with the Possibility of Technology Diffusion: Optimal Entry Mode for Multinationals, Tanmoyee Banerjee(Chatterjee) and Nilanjana Mitra
Effects of Tourism Upon the Economy of Small and Medium-Sized European Cities. Cultural Tourists and “The Others”, Elena Bellini, Barbara Del Corpo, Ugo Gasparino, and William Malizia
Impact of Revised CO2 Growth Projections for China on Global Stabilization Goals, Geoffrey J. Blanford, Richard G. Richels, and Thomas F. Rutherford
Banking Permits: Economic Efficiency and Distributional Effects, Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, and Emanuele Massetti
Delayed Action and Uncertain Targets. How Much Will Climate Policy Cost?, Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi, and Massimo Tavoni
Delayed Participation of Developing Countries to Climate Agreements: Should Action in the EU and US be Postponed?, Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, and Massimo Tavoni
Abatement Cost Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Selection under a Stringent Climate Policy. A Dynamic Analysis, Valentina Bosetti, Alexander Golub, Anil Markandya, and Emanuele Massetti
Modelling Economic Impacts of Alternative International Climate Policy Architectures. A Quantitative and Comparative Assessment of Architectures for Agreement, Valentina Bosetti, Alessandra Sgobbi, Carlo Carraro, and Massimo Tavoni
Environmental Regulation and Horizontal Mergers in the Eco-industry, Joan Canton, Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, and Maria David
Analysing Regional Sustainability Through a Systemic Approach: The Lombardy Case Study, Pietro Caratti and Ludovico Ferraguto
Past Performance Evaluation in Repeated Procurement: A Simple Model of Handicapping, Berardino Cesi and Gian Luigi Albano
Coalitional Matchings, Dinko Dimitrov and Emiliya Lazarova
Corruption, Income Inequality, and Poverty in the United States, Oguzhan Dincer and Burak Gunalp
Measuring Service Quality: The Opinion of Europeans about Utilities, PIERALDA FERRARI and SILVIA SALINI
Stability and Success of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations, Michael Finus, Pedro Pintassilgo, Marko Lindroos, and Gordon Munro
Coalition Formation and the Ancillary Benefits of Climate Policy, Michael Finus and Dirk T.G. Rübbelke
Measuring the Impact of Tourism Upon Urban Economies: A Review of Literature, Ugo Gasparino, Elena Bellini, Barbara Del Corpo, and William Malizia
Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy, Reyer Gerlagh, Snorre Kverndokk, and Knut Einar Rosendahl
Strategic Resource Dependence, Reyer Gerlagh and Matti Liski
The Economic Value of Wetland Conservation and Creation: A Meta-Analysis, Andrea Ghermandi, J.C.J.M. van den Bergh, L.M. Brander, H.L.F. de Groot, and P A:L:D: Nunes
The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990’s, ottaviano gianmarco, Francesco D’Amuri, and Giovanni Peri
Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics, ottaviano gianmarco and Giovanni Peri
Science-Policy Communication for Improved Water Resources Management: Contributions of the Nostrum-DSS Project, Carlo Giupponi and Yaella Depietri
Participatory Modelling and Decision Support for Natural Resources Management in Climate Change Research, Carlo Giupponi, Jaroslav Mysiak, and Alessandra Sgobbi
The Clean Development Mechanism and the International Diffusion of Technologies: An Empirical Study, Matthieu Glachant, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, and Yann Ménière
Accountability in Government and Regulatory Policies: Theory and Evidence, Carmine Guerriero
The Political Economy of Incentive Regulation: Theory and Evidence from US States, Carmine Guerriero
Does Network Matter in International Expansion? Evidence from Italian SMEs, Antonia Rosa Gurrieri and Luca Petruzzellis
A Proposal for a New Prescriptive Discounting Scheme: The Intergenerational Discount Rate, Stéphane Hallegatte
The Environmental Kuznets Curve from Multiple Perspectives, WILLIAM K. JAEGER and Van Kolpin
Repeated Games Played in a Network, Markus Kinateder
Contributing or Free-Riding? A Theory of Endogenous Lobby Formation, HIDEO KONISHI and Taiji Furusawa
Equity and Justice in Global Warming Policy, Snorre Kverndokk and Adam Rose
The Impact of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Developing Countries, Inma Martinez-Zarzoso
The Preferences of Trieste Inhabitants for the Re-use of the Old Port: A Conjoint Choice Experiment, Jérôme Massiani and Paolo Rosato
Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services. Micro-Evidence from Italy, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Giulio Cainelli, and Roberto Zoboli
Embedding Landfill Diversion in Economic, Geographical and Policy Settings Panel based evidence from Italy, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini, and Francesco Nicolli
Firms’ International Status and Heterogeneity in Performance: Evidence From Italy, Alfredo Minerva, Lorenzo Casaburi, and Valeria Gattai
Vertical Integration and Operational Flexibility, Michele Moretto and Gianpaolo Rossini
Managing Migration through Quotas: an Option-theory Perspective, Michele Moretto and Sergio Vergalli
Networks with Group Counterproposals, Ricardo Nieva
Comparing Price and Non-price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation, Sheila Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins
Sexual Orientation and Household Decision Making. Same-Sex Couples’ Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices, Sonia Oreffice
Can Climate Change Mitigation Policy Benefit the Israeli Economy? A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis, Ruslana Palatnik and Mordechai Shechter
A Network Model of Price Dispersion, Giacomo Pasini, Paolo Pin, and Simon Weidenholzer
Environmental Policy, Education and Growth: A Reappraisal when Lifetime Is Finite, Xavier Pautrel
Institutions and Forest Management: A Case Study from Swat, Pakistan, Lorenzo Pellegrini and Gideon Kruseman
Opportunity and Choice in Social Networks, Paolo Pin, Silvio Franz, and Matteo Marsili