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Lessons from 15 Years of Experience with the Dutch Tax Allowance for Energy Investments for Firms

Ruijs, Arjan; Vollebergh, Herman - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

and sustainable energy production. This Energy Investment Tax Allowance (EIA in Dutch) reduces up-front investment costs … deduct some of the investment costs from their taxable profits. The EIA may also reduce search costs by investors to find … revenues to subsidise investment in energy-efficient technologies and renewable energy is not very different from using on …

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ETS and Technological Innovation: A Random Matching Model

Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

The present paper investigates the functioning of an Emission Trading System (ETS) and its impact on the diffusion of environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms’ strategic behaviours and sanctions to non-compliant firms. For this purpose, we study an evolutionary...

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Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment

Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica De; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate...

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Leadership and International Climate Cooperation

Schwerhoff, Gregor - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...

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E-participation: Social Capital and the Internet

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...

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Directed Technical Change With Capital-Embodied Technologies: Implications For Climate Policy

Lennox, James A.; Witajewski, Jan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth....

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On the Mechanism of International Technology Diffusion for Energy Technological Progress

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

International diffusion of energy-saving technologies has received considerable attention in recent energy and climate economics studies. As a helpful methodological complement to the existing large-scale CGE/IAM–based modelling for energy and climate policy studies, this paper contributes to...

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The WITCH Model. Structure, Baseline, Solutions

Bosetti, Valentina; Massetti, Emanuele; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

WITCH – World Induced Technical Change Hybrid – is a regionally disaggregated hard-link hybrid global model with a neoclassical optimal growth structure (top-down) and a detailed energy input component (bottom-up). The model endogenously accounts for technological change, both through...

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How to Measure the Unobservable: A Panel Technique for the Analysis of TFP Convergence

Liberto, Adriana Di; Mura, Roberto; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously take into account both TFP convergence and the traditional neoclassical-type of convergence. We analyse a sample of Italian regions between 1963 and 1993 and find strong evidence that both mechanisms were at...

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Growth, Conventional Production and Tourism Specialisation: Technological Catching-up Versus Terms-of-Trade Effects

Valente, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper extends the ’expanding-varieties’ growth model in a two-countries-two-goods setup, and describes the dynamics of growth rates and terms of trade when the industry-based economy is the innovation leader, while the tourism-based economy is the follower (i.e. increases the number of...

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