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Properties of a Non-Competitive Electricity Market Dominated by Hydroelectric Power

Hoel, Michael; Førsund, Finn R. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

An important conclusion from the literature on hydropower is that if there are no other constraints than the available … hydropower being non-concave. This non-concavity can be caused by short-run capacity limits either on exports and imports of …

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The Flushing Flow Cost: A Prohibitive River Restoration Alternative? The Case of the Lower Ebro River

Gómez, Carlos M.; Pérez-Blanco, C. Dionisio; Batalla, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

equipped with hydropower generation facilities. The methodology is applied to the Lower Ebro River in Spain. The results show …

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An Exploration of the Link Between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk

Hallegatte, Stéphane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters … development and slower than income at high levels of development. In that case, increasing risk-taking reinforces economic growth …-taking is both a driver and a consequence of economic development, and should not be indiscriminately suppressed. The …

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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution

Perez, Wilson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...

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Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun

Bosetti, Valentina; Frankel, Jeffrey - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the...

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Cross-Border Intellectual Property Rights: Contract Enforcement and Absorptive Capacity

Naghavi, Alireza; Tsai, Yingyi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining approach and distinguishes between the outcome and its actual enforcement. The absorptive capacity of the Southern country to exploit technology transfer plays a key role in the...

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An Empirical Contribution to the Debate on Corruption,Democracy and Environmental Policy

Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Gerlagh, Reyer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

development. …

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Water Consumption and Long-Run Urban Development: The Case of Milan

Nosvelli, Mario; Musolesi, Antonio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Analyses of long run consumption series are rare in literature. We study the evolution of water consumption in Milan in the twentieth century. The objective is twofold: on one side, the univariate analysis tries both to assess the impact of relevant socio-economic and environmental changes on...

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The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills Across Sectors

Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...

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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth

Costantini, Valeria; Monni, Salvatore - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

causal relationships between economic growth, human development and sustainability combining the RCH and EKC models and …Over the last few years, environmental issues have entered into policy design, particularly development and growth … determinant. The integration of environmental issues into economic growth and development theories and empirics is currently …

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