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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution

Gatto, Massimo Del - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...

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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer

Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper analyzes welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in the framework of TRIPS for developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade environment, the South sets its IPR policy...

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Cartel Sustainability and Cartel Stability

Escrihuela-Villar, Marc - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

The paper studies how does the size of a cartel affect the possibility that its members can sustain a collusive agreement. I obtain that collusion is easier to sustain the larger the cartel is. Then, I explore the implications of this result on the incentives of firms to participate in a cartel....

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Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Consumers Care for the Environment

Conrad, Klaus - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Increasing environmental awareness may affect the pleasure of consuming a good for which an environmental friendly substitute is available. When deciding to buy differentiated products, a compromise is sometimes made between preferred characteristics of the good and its environmental properties....

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Unconventional Gas and the European Union: Prospects and Challenges for Competitiveness

Vollebergh, Herman R.J.; Drissen, Eric - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

This article studies the likely impact of unconventional gas developments in the U.S. on EU competitiveness. We find, first of all, little evidence for a prosperous unconventional gas development in Europe. Second, the U.S. boom has already a strong impact on both world and European energy...

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Carbon Capture; Transport and Storage in Europe: A Problematic Energy Bridge to Nowhere?

Herold, Johannes; Rüster, Sophia; Hirschhausen, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper is a follow up of the SECURE-project, financed by the European Commission to study “Security of Energy Considering its Uncertainties, Risks and Economic Implications”. It addresses the perspectives of, and the obstacles to a CCTS-roll out, as stipulated in some of the scenarios....

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Long-run Models of Oil Stock Prices

Lanza, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo; Grasso, Margherita; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The identification of the forces that drive oil stock prices is extremely important given the size of the Oil&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with international policies to contrast climate change. This...

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Fiscal Policy and CO2 Emissions of New Passenger Cars in the EU

Gerlagh, Reyer; Bijgaart, Inge van den; Nijland, Hans; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

T o what extent have national fiscal policies contributed to the decarbonisation of newly sold passenger cars? We construct a simple model that generates predictions regarding the effect of fiscal policies on average CO2 emissions of new cars, and then test the model empirically. Our empirical...

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Economic Instruments and Induced Innovation: The Case of End-of-Life Vehicles European Policies

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The paper addresses the dynamic-incentive effect of environmental policy instruments when innovation is uncertain and occurs in very complex industrial subsystems. The case of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) is considered focusing predominantly on the effects of the European Directive adopted in...

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Biofuel Economics in a Setting of Multiple Objectives & Unintended Consequences

Jaeger, William K.; Egelkraut, Thorsten M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

ethanol production for 2025 reduces U.S. petroleum input use by 1.75%, and would have negligible net effects on CO2 emissions …; and although EU imports of Brazilian ethanol may look better given the high costs of other alternatives, this option is … equivalent, at most, to a 1.20% reduction in EU gasoline consumption. …

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