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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

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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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The Timing of National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions in the Presence of Other Environmental Policies

Dellink, Rob B.; Hofkes, Marjan W. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...

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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 “tourism countries” within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period...

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Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...

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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

-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we …

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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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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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