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Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries
Hoel, Michael; Zeeuw, Aart de - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
For sufficiently low abatement costs many countries might undertake significant emission reductions even without any international agreement on emission reductions. We consider a situation where a coalition of countries does not cooperate on emission reductions but cooperates on the development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833898
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Development Accounting with Intermediate Goods
Grobovšek, Jan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Do intermediate goods help explain relative and aggregate productivity differences across countries? Three observations … depresses aggregate productivity and increases the price ratio of final goods to services. Applying the model to data for middle … intermediate production efficiency of the US, the aggregate productivity gap between the lowest and highest income countries in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421237
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Climate Policies: a Burden or a Gain?
Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904921
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Climate Coalitions: A Theoretical and Computational Appraisal
Bréchet, Thierry; Gerard, François - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
Using an updated version of the CWS model (introduced by Eyckmans and Tulkens in Resource and Energy Economics 2003), this paper intends to evaluate with numbers the respective merits of two competing notions of coalition stability in the standard global public goods model as customarily applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385509
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Dynamic Core-Theoretic Cooperation in a Two-Dimensional International Environmental Model
Germain, Marc; Tulkens, Henry; Magnus, Alphonse - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
This article deals with cooperation issues in international pollution problems in a two di- mensional dynamic framework implied by the accumulation of the pollutant and of the capital goods. Assuming that countries do reevaluate at each period the advantages to cooperate or not given the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008041
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Dynamic Effects on the Stability of International Environmental Agreements
Zeeuw, Aart de - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
In terms of the number of signatories, one observes both large and small international environmental agreements. The theoretical literature, based on game theory, discusses different concepts and mechanisms for the stability of coalitions and has reached the conclusion that, under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423147
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Economic Integration and Similarity in Trade Structures
Tajoli, Lucia; Benedictis, Lucia De - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
In this paper we look at the similarity of trade structures in an integrating area. In particular, we analyse the …-Curtis semi-metric to assess changes in the trade similarity. We examine its evolution over time - from 1989 to 2001 - considering …, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria to the EU is related to the role acquired by processed trade in the 1990s. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570302
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Measurement and Spatial Effects of the Immigrant Created Cultural Diversity in Sydney
Lalich, Walter F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper analyses the contribution to the creation of a culturally diverse Sydney landscape by ethnic communities following the arrival of over a million and half non-English speaking settlers since 1948. Through fragmented collective actions, around 450 communal places were established to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385486
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Return on Investment from Industrial Energy Efficiency: Evidence from Developing Countries
Alcorta, Ludovico; Bazilian, Morgan; Simone, Giuseppe De; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Energy efficiency is a foundation of any good energy policy. The economic, security, and environmental benefits of energy efficiency have been recognized for decades. We explore energy efficiency policy insights derived from survey work in developing countries in 119 projects across nine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552194
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Long-run Investment under Uncertain Demand
Corato, Luca Di; Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
In the literature investigating the impact of uncertainty on short-run and long-run investment, most authors have used a log linear profit function. This functional form has been generally considered a reasonable approximation for more general ones and has the advantage of providing closed form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833915