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Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy: The Electricity Market

Hirth, Lion; Ueckerdt, Falko - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Energy and climate policies are usually seen as measures to internalize externalities. However, as a side effect, these policies redistribute wealth between consumers and producers, and within these groups. While redistribution is seldom the focus of the academic literature in energy economics,...

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The Value of Cultural Heritage Sites in Armenia: Evidence from a Travel Cost Method Study

Alberini, Anna; Longo, Alberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper applies the travel cost method to visits to cultural sites in Armenia by domestic visitors. Respondents intercepted at four cultural monuments provided information on their visitation patterns, experience at the site, perception of the state of conservation of the monuments, and...

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Time-separable Utility, Leisure and Human Capital Accumulation: What New Implications for the Environment-Growth Nexus?

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

Using a time-separable utility function where leisure is introduced through the disutility of working time and is … harmful for growth. A tighter environmental tax reduces the incentives to educate by increasing leisure time and lowers the … (1998) according to which, in the presence of leisure, the environmental tax does not affect human capital accumulation if …

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Evaluating Projects and Assessing Sustainable Development in Imperfect Economies

Arrow, Kenneth; Dasgupta, Partha; Mäler, Karl-Göran - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...

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Formation of Segregated and Integrated Groups

Watts, Alison - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

A model of group formation is presented where the number of groups is fixed and a person can only join a group if the group’s members approve the person’s joining. Agents have either local status preferences (each agent wants to be the highest status agent in his group) or global status...

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Protection Motivation Theory and Contingent Valuation: Perceived Realism, Threat and WTP Estimates for Biodiversity Protection

Scarpa, Riccardo; Menzel, Susanne - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

We report on a discrete-choice CV study conducted in Germany to value the WTP for biodiversity protection in less developed countries. To systematically investigate survey realism and subjective threat assessment from the loss of biodiversity described in the scenario the study includes...

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The Music Market in the Age of Download

Grassi, Iacopo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

Internet, mp3 files, peer-to-peer software and digital technologies for copying have radically modified the music sector. In this paper I present a theoretical model, that investigates the consequences of the appearance of a pirate low quality good (typically a mp3 file) in the music market. In...

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Information v. Energy Efficiency Incentives: Evidence from Residential Electricity Consumption in Maryland

Alberini, Anna; Towe, Charles - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

We focus on two utility programs intended to reduce energy usage and the associated CO2 emissions—a home energy audit and rebates on the purchase of high-efficiency air-source heat pumps. We use a unique panel dataset from participating and non-participating households to estimate the average...

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Economic Valuation of Oceanographic Forecasting Services: A Cost-Benefit Exercise

Chiabai, Aline; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an assessment of the economic value of the oceanographic services provided by the Mediterranean operational forecasting system, MFSTEP. The main purpose of this exploratory study is to carry out a cost-benefit analysis for different development scenarios, by comparing the...

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The Profile of a “Warm-Glower”: A Note on Consumer’s Behavior and Public Policy Implications

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Onofri, Laura - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

The paper focuses on the ongoing debate on non-market valuation, including the valuation environmental goods, and the opportunity to use contingent valuation for policy guidance. In fact, contingent valuation critics argue that reported willingness to pay answers do not reflect real economic...

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