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Private Options to Use Public Goods Exploiting Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits

Snyder, Lori D.; Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We develop and apply a new method for estimating the economic benefits of an environmental amenity. The method fits within the household production framework (Becker 1965), and is based upon the notion of estimating the derived demand for a privately traded option to utilize a freely-available...

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Can R&D-Inducing Green Tariffs Replace International Environmental Regulations?

Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the location of firms, innovation and the environment. It shows that tariffs levied on polluting goods could result in less global pollution than harmonization of environmental standards...

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The Conservation versus Production Trade-off: Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon

Vale, Petterson Molina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow frontier, speculative behaviour and boom-bust all share the prediction that livestock production will remain largely extensive. Yet between 1996 and 2006 productivity of cattle...

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Simple Myths and Basic Maths about Greening Irrigation

Gómez, Carlos M.; Pérez-Blanco, C. Dionisio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Greening the economy is mostly about improving water governance and not only about putting the existing resource saving technical alternatives into practice. Focusing on the second and forgetting the first risks finishing with a highly efficient use of water services at the level of each...

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Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of Tradable White Certificates Compared to Taxes, Subsidies and Regulations

Quirion, Philippe; Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Tradable White Certificates (TWC) schemes, also labelled Energy-Efficiency Certificates schemes, were recently implemented in Great Britain, Italy and France. Energy suppliers have to fund a given quantity of energy efficiency measures, or to buy so-called "white certificates" from other...

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Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation

Noailly, Joëlle - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

to improve energy-efficiency in buildings. The empirical analysis focuses on three main types of policy instruments …, namely regulatory energy standards in buildings codes, energy taxes as captured by energy prices and specific governmental …-efficiency in buildings (e.g. insulation, high-efficiency boilers, energy-saving lightings). The estimates for seven European …

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Evaluation of Urban Improvement on the Islands of the Venice Lagoon: A Spatially-Distributed Hedonic-Hierarchical Approach

Fassio, Anita; Breil, Margaretha; Giupponi, Carlo; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

buildings and the location. Some applications of the model are illustrated simulating two scenarios of future interventions …

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The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience

Aldy, Joseph E.; Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful action at the global level. At the same time, it will inevitably be up to the actions of sovereign nations to put in place policies that bring about meaningful...

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Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory and Experience

Aldy, Joseph E.; Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual consumption, business investment, and government spending. An effective climate policy will have to modify the decision calculus for these activities in the...

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Smart Meter Devices and The Effect of Feedback on Residential Electricity Consumption: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Northern Ireland

Gans, Will; Alberini, Anna; Longo, Alberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Using a unique set of data and exploiting a large-scale natural experiment, we estimate the effect of real-time usage information on residential electricity consumption in Northern Ireland. Starting in April 2002, the utility replaced prepayment meters with “smart” meters that allow the...

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