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Light Duty Vehicle Transportation and Global Climate Policy: The Importance of Electric Drive Vehicles

Bosetti, Valentina; Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …

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Light Duty Vehicle Transportation and Global Climate Policy: The Importance of Electric Drive Vehicles

Bosetti, Valentina; Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541207

Deviations in Kilometres Travelled: The Impact of Different Mobility Futures on Energy Use and Climate

Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...

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Policy Instruments and Incentives for Environmental R&D:A Market-Driven Approach

Albrecht, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

Environmental policy instruments have an impact on the incentives to invest in environmental R&D and this link should deserve careful consideration when introducing new instruments. Some authors argue that environmental taxes and tradable permits have rather comparable impacts on environmental...

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy; Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities

Gerlagh, Reyer; Kverndokk, Snorre; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

the interaction between environmental taxes and innovation externalities in a dynamic economy and prove policy equivalence … directly linked to the source of technological innovation. Arguments for early action in LbD models carry over to a second …

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Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy

Gerlagh, Reyer; Kverndokk, Snorre; Rosendah, Knut Einar - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research … and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the Pigouvian level, independent of innovation …. However, with finite patent lifetime, optimal innovation policy depends on the stage of the environmental problem. In the …

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Parallel Imports and Innovation in an Emerging Economy

Mantovani, Andrea; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare …

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Social Policy and Productivity Growth: What are the Linkages?

Harris, Richard G. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...

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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...

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