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Solar Grid Parity Dynamics in Italy: A Real Option Approach

Biondi, Tommaso; Moretto, Michele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Over the past three years Italy has witnessed a rapid growth in the photovoltaic energy market, followed by an equally sudden decline when the government decided to reduce the incentives. This sharp change in the trend of the market calls into question the achievement of Grid Parity and the...

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The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: A Natural Experiment

Guyon, Nina; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries. There is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and little agreement on the effects of any further increase in its size. This paper presents a natural experiment...

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Improving Education as Key to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Developing Countries

Lutz, Wolfgang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

international development, the combination of education and health stands out as a root cause on which other dimensions of … assess the role of population and education factors relative to other factors in the struggle for sustainable development … capital, and that only by adding the ‘quality’ dimension of education to the traditionally narrow focus on size and age …

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How (not) to Choose Peers in Studying Groups

Gall, Thomas; Amann, Roland - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper analyzes social group formation when agents are subject to peer effects within groups increasing human capital and instantaneous utility. When agents are heterogeneous on two dimensions, ability and social skills, and monetary payments are not feasible the model predicts segregation...

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Quality of Available Mates, Education and Intra-Household Bargaining Power

Oreffice, Sonia; Bercea, Brighita - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

.S. metropolitan areas in year 2000, a quality sex ratio is constructed by education brackets to test the effect on the intra …-household bargaining power of couples in the corresponding education bracket. We argue that a relative shortage of suitably educated women … education increases. We consider a collective labor supply household model, in which each spouse’s labor supply is negatively …

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Anti-Racist Policies in France. From Ideological and Historical Schemes to Socio-Political Realities

Naves, Marie-Cecile; Crowley, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

demands that require concrete answers, notably against urban violence and education. …

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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

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Local Networks to Compete in the Global Era. The Italian SMEs Experience

Gurrieri, Antonia R.; Petruzzellis, Luca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This study is concerned with the factors that influence the cooperation among cluster-based firms. Theorists have consistently demonstrated the role and importance of economic externalities, such as knowledge spillovers, within industrial clusters. Less attention has been paid to the...

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A Role for Instructions

Valsecchi, Irene - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The paper is concerned with instructions as a way of setting premises for subsequent decisions in models of teams à la Marschak-Radner, under information diversification. The paper suggests that instructions can bridge people’s differences in knowledge: they do not require mutual...

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Why do Firms Hold Oil Stockpiles?

Mason, Charles F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Persistent and significant privately-held stockpiles of crude oil have long been an important empirical regularity in the United States. Such stockpiles would not rationally be held in a traditional Hotelling-style model. How then can the existence of these inventories be explained? In the...

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