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Industrial Coal Demand in China: A Provincial Analysis

Manera, Matteo; Cattaneo, Cristina; Scarpa, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China’s energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand...

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Sticks and Carrots for the Design of International Climate Agreements with Renegotiations

Weikard, Hans-Peter; Dellink, Rob - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This paper examines stability of international climate agreements for carbon abatement under an optimal transfer rule and renegotiations. The optimal transfer rule suggested to stabilise international environmental agreements (Weikard 2005, Carraro, Eyckmans and Finus 2006) is no longer optimal...

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North-South Climate Change Negotiations: a Sequential Game with Asymmetric Information

Caparrós, Alejandro; Pereau, Jean-Christophe; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This article determines the conditions under which the Southern countries should act together, or separately, while negotiating with the North about climate change policy and about the conditions for future Southern engagement. The paper models the international negotiations with complete and...

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Decentralization and Environment: An Application to Water Policies

Garcia-Valiñas, Maria Angeles - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

By means of a two-jurisdictional model, this paper analyses the optimal division of environmental policymaking functions among the different government levels, identifying the most appropriate level of decentralization in each case. The paper focuses on water resources policies, with an...

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Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The prospect of federal action raises important questions regarding the interconnections between federal efforts and state-level climate policy...

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Bio-Ecological Diversity vs. Socio-Economic Diversity: A Comparison of Existing Measures

Maignan, Carole; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pinelli, Dino; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...

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Reconsidering The Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution … on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a case, greener preferences are growth- and welfare-improving even if the …

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Pollution, Health and Life Expectancy: How Environmental Policy Can Promote Growth

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission … (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la Romer (1986). We demonstrate that environmental policy has an ambiguous … effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account …

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Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites

Akerman, Anders; Larsson, Anna; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: a Survey of the Literature

Borghesi, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it eventually decreases as income exceeds a threshold level. The present …

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