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Why Finance Ministers Favor Carbon Taxes, Even if They Do not Take Climate Change into Account

Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Fiscal considerations may shift governmental priorities away from environmental concerns: Finance ministers face strong demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition. We develop a multi-region model of tax competition...

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Tax Competition, Investment Irreversibility and the Provision of Public Goods

Moretto, Michele; Panteghini, Paolo; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This article studies the effects of tax competition on the provision of public goods under business risk and partial irreversibility of investment. As will be shown, the provision of public goods changes over time and also depends on the business cycle. In particular, under source-based...

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The Role of Standards in Eco-innovation: Lessons for Policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R.J.; Werf, Edwin van der - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost … discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and …-saving technologies. This broad perspective enables us to identify interesting economic dimensions of standards, such as their …

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Platform Competition with Endogenous Multihoming

Roson, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

A model of two-sided market (for credit cards) is introduced and discussed. In this model, agents can join none, one, or more than one platform (multihoming), depending on access prices and the choices made by agents on the opposite market side. Although emerging multihoming patterns are,...

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Environmental and Pro-Social Norms: Evidence from 30 Countries

Torgler, Benno; Frey, Bruno S.; Wilson, Clevo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

The paper investigates the relationship between pro-social norms and its implications for improved environmental outcomes, an area which has been neglected in the environmental economics literature. We provide empirical evidence, demonstrating a strong link between perceived environmental...

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Environmental Participation and Environmental Motivation

Torgler, Benno; Valiñas, María A. García; Macintyre, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

moral standards may lead to a stronger voluntary involvement in environmental organizations. …

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Justifiability of Littering: An Empirical Investigation

Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The paper investigates the relationship between environmental participation and littering. Previous empirical work in the area of littering is scarce as is evidence regarding the determinants of littering behavior. We address these deficiencies, demonstrating a strong empirical link between...

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“Almost” Subsidy-free Spatial Pricing in a Multi-dimensional Setting

Savvateev, Alexei; Drèze, Jacques; Breton, Michel Le; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

Consider a population of citizens uniformly spread over the entire plane, that faces a problem of locating public facilities to be used by its members. The cost of every facility is financed by its users, who also face an idiosyncratic private access cost to the facility. We assume that the...

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The Effect of Spillovers and Congestion on the Segregative Properties of Endogenous Jurisdiction Structure Formation

Oddou, Rémy - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper analyzes the effect of spillovers and congestion of local public goods on the segregative properties of endogenous formation of jurisdiction. Households living in the same place form a jurisdiction and produce a local public good, that creates positive spillovers in other...

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Differences in Preferences Towards the Environment: The Impact of a Gender, Age and Parental Effect

Torgler, Benno; Valiñas, María A. García; Macintyre, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The paper investigates empirically the differences in preferences towards protection of the environment. Using seven different dependent variables to focus on the impact of age, gender and children we use a large micro data set covering data from 33 Western and Eastern European countries. The...

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