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 2019
Determinants of the Public Debt and the Role of the Natural Resources: A Cross-Country Analysis, Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada and Andrea Gatto
Uncertainty and Risk-aversion in a Dynamic Oligopoly with Sticky Prices, Edilio Valentini and Paolo Vitale
The Adverse Effect of Energy-Efficiency Policy, Achim Voss
Does China Fall into Poverty-Environment Traps? Evidence from Long-term Income Dynamics and Urban Air Pollution, Jian-Xin Wu, Ling-Yun He, and ZhongXiang Zhang
The Energy Transition in China: Mid-to Long-Term National Strategies and Prospects, Canran Zheng
Papers from 2018
Investment-Uncertainty Relationship in the Oil and Gas Industry, Maryam Ahmadi, Matteo Manera, and Mehdi Sadeghzadeh
Growing in the Womb: The Effect of Seismic Activity on Fetal Growth, Rocío Álvarez-Aranda, Serafima Chirkova, and José Gabriel Romero
Periurban Agriculture: do the Current EU Agri-environmental Policy Programmes Fit with it?, Linda Arata, Gianni Guastella, Stefano Pareglio, Riccardo Scarpa, and Paolo Sckokai
Three Layers of Uncertainty: an Experiment, Ilke Aydogan, Loϊc Berger, Valentina Bosetti, and Ning Liu
Are Renewables Profitable in 2030? A Comparison between Wind and Solar across Europe, Valentin Bertsch and Valeria Di Cosmo
Eyes on the Price: Which Power Generation Technologies Set the Market Price? Price Setting in European Electricity Markets: An Application to the Proposed Dutch Carbon Price Floor, Eike Blume-Werry, Thomas Faber, Lion Hirth, Claus Huber, and Martin Everts
The Effect of Forest Access on the Market for Fuelwood in India, Branko Bošković, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Martino Pelli, and Anna Risch
The Strength of Weak Leaders - An Experiment on Social Influence and Social Learning in Teams, Berno Büchel, Stefan Klößner, Martin Lochmüller, and Heiko Rauhut
Termination Fees and Contract Design in Public-Private Partnerships, Marco Buso, Cesare Dosi, and Michele Moretto
Internal and External Barriers to Energy Efficiency: Made-to-Measure Policy Interventions, Cristina Cattaneo
Bi and Branching Strict Nash Networks in Two-way Flow Models: a Generalized Sufficient Condition, Banchongsan Charoensook
It’s So Hot in Here: Information Avoidance, Moral Wiggle Room, and High Air Conditioning Usage, Giovanna d’Adda, Yu Gao, Russell Golman, and Massimo Tavoni
The Chinese are Here: Firm Level Analysis of Import Competition and Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Christian K. Darko, Giovanni Occhiali, and Enrico Vanino
International Environmental Agreements and Trading Blocks - Can Issue Linkage Enhance Cooperation?, Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Eftichios Sophocles Sartzetakis, and Stefania Strantza
International Environmental Agreements - Stability with Transfers among Countries, Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Eftichios Sophocles Sartzetakis, and Stefania Strantza
International Environmental Agreements - The Impact of Heterogeneity among Countries on Stability, Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Eftichios Sophocles Sartzetakis, and Stefania Strantza
From Forward to Spot Prices: Producers, Retailers and Loss Averse Consumers in Electricity Markets, Valeria Di Cosmo and Elisa Trujillo-Baute
Natural Resources, Economic Growth and Geography, Rafael González-Val and Fernando Pueyo
China’s Energy Policy & Investments and their Impact on the Sub-Saharan African Region, Valentin Grimoux
Capital Accumulation, Green Paradox, and Stranded Assets: An Endogenous Growth Perspective, Wei Jin and ZhongXiang Zhang
Climate Change and Kuznets Curve: Portuguese Experience, Nuno Carlos Leitão
The Impact of China’s Electricity Deregulation on Coal and Power Industries: Two-stage Game Modeling Approach, HuiHui Liu, ZhongXiang Zhang, ZhanMing Chen, and DeSheng Dou
A Variational Approach to Network Games, Emerson Melo
Do Global Financial Markets Capitalise Sustainability? Evidence of a Quick Reversal, Fabio Moliterni
Some Financial Implications of Global Warming: an Empirical Assessment, Claudio Morana and Giacomo Sbrana
Threshold Policy Effects and Directed Technical Change in Energy Innovation, Lionel Nesta, Elena Verdolini, and Francesco Vona
The Changing Role of Natural Gas in Nigeria, Giovanni Occhiali and Giacomo Falchetta
Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements: Adaptation and Complementarity, Santiago J. Rubio
Recalculating the Social Cost of Carbon, Soheil Shayegh, Valentina Bosetti, Simon Dietz, Johannes Emmerling, Christoph Hambel, Svenn Jensen, Holger Kraft, Massimo Tavoni, Christian Traeger, and Rick Van der Ploeg
The Response of European Energy Prices to ECB Monetary Policy, Hipòlit Torró
Modelling the Global Price of Oil: Is there any Role for the Oil Futures-spot Spread?, Daniele Valenti
Interpreting the Oil Risk Premium: do Oil Price Shocks Matter?, Daniele Valenti, Matteo Manera, and Alessandro Sbuelz
Energy Price Reform in China, ZhongXiang Zhang
Papers from 2017
The Benefits of Avoiding Cancer (or Dying from Cancer): Evidence from a Four-country Study, Anna Alberini and Milan Ščasný
A Simple Framework for Climate-Change Policy under Model Uncertainty, Stergios Athanasoglou, Valentina Bosetti, and Laurent Drouet
The Empirics of Regulatory Reforms Proxied by Categorical Variables: Recent Findings and Methodological Issues, Andrea Bastianin, Paolo Castelnovo, and Massimo Florio
Statistical and Economic Evaluation of Time Series Models for Forecasting Arrivals at Call Centers, Andrea Bastianin, Marzio Galeotti, and Matteo Manera
Welfare as Simple(x) Equity Equivalents, Loïc Berger and Johannes Emmerling
Farsighted Stability with Heterogeneous Expectations, Francis Bloch and Anne van den Nouweland
Social Interaction and Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Improved Cookstoves in Mali, Jacopo Bonan, Pietro Battiston, Jaimie Bleck, Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Stefano Pareglio, Bassirou Sarr, and Massimo Tavoni
Contagion in Stable Networks, Spiros Bougheas
A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Italian Agriculture, Martina Bozzola, Emanuele Massetti, Robert Mendelsohn, and Fabian Capitanio
Network Formation and Disruption - An Experiment - Are Efficient Networks too Complex?, Sonja Brangewitz, Behnud Mir Djawadi, Angelika Endres, and Britta Britta Hoyer
The Social Contract in the MENA Region and the Energy Sector Reforms, Sara Brzuszkiewicz
The Swing Voter's Curse in Social Networks, Berno Buechel and Lydia Mechtenberg