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The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills Across Sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642164
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Quantifying Sustainability: A New Approach and World Ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603772
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The European Emission Trading Scheme and Renewable Energy Policies: Credible Targets for Incredible Results?
Borghesi, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European Trading System of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828388
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904902
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385474
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320996
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635920
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990066
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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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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570316
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HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa: Trends and Challenges
Luboobi, Livingstone S.; Mugisha, Joseph Y.T. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
Three-quarters of the world’s AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs …, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major factors inhibiting medical professionals in Africa … submit designs for a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic. The pandemic is changing the demographic structure of Africa and wiping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230916