FEEM conducts research on a wide range of economic, environmental, and energy issue. The starting point of FEEM research is the realization of the high level of complexity of the problems emerging in international energy markets, and more particularly the need to foster awareness on the interaction between the firm and the environment, the economy and energy scenarios, corporate responsibility and social conflict, and cultural responsibility.
The Research Programme Sustainable Development covers a considerable number of key topics for research in the field of economics and the environment, often strictly interrelated among themselves and both individually and jointly addressed by FEEM research projects.
The basic recognition underlying this research programme is that markets live on foundations laid by institutions, i.e. the broad set of formal and informal norms defining the structure of incentives of the economy and society...
The Research Programme aims at taking up the new challenges that the global economy is posing to the traditional paradigms of economic and political analysis. Research addresses first of all cultural diversity and economic growth...