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Implications of Weak Near-term Climate Policies on Long-term Mitigation Pathways

Igos, Elorri; Rugani, Benedetto; Rege, Sameer; Benetto, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

The future evolution of energy supply technologies strongly depends on (and affects) the economic and environmental systems, due to the high dependency of this sector on the availability and cost of fossil fuels, especially on the small regional scale. This paper aims at presenting the modeling...

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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...

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Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Assess the Relative Efficiency of Different Climate Policy Portfolios

Bosetti, Valentina; Buchner, Barbara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Within the political, scientific and economic debate on climate change, the process of evaluating climate policies ex-ante, during and/or ex-post their lifetime, is receiving increasing attention from international institutions and organisations. The task becomes particularly challenging when...

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Robust Multidimensional Welfare Comparisons: One Vector of Weights, One Vote

Athanassoglou, Stergios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Many aspects of social welfare are intrinsically multidimensional. Composite indices at-tempting to reduce this complexity to a unique measure abound in many areas of economics and public policy. Comparisons based on such measures depend, sometimes critically, on how the different dimensions of...

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Cost Effectiveness in River Management: Evaluation of Integrated River Policy System in Tidal Ouse

Wang, Tao - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The River Ouse forms a significant part of Humber river system, which drains about one fifth the land area of England and provides the largest fresh water source to the North Sea from UK. The river quality in the tidal river suffered from sag of dissolved oxygen (DO) during last few decades,...

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STAR-GARCH Models for Stock Market Interactions in the Pacific Basin Region, Japan and US

Busetti, Giorgio; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We investigate the financial interactions between countries in the Pacific Basin region (Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japan and US. The originality of the paper is the use of STAR-GARCH models, instead of standard correlation-cointegration techniques. For each country in...

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Restructuring Italian Utility Markets: Household Distributional Effects

Valbonesi, Paola; Miniaci, Raffaele; Scarpa, Carlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Competition in public utility sectors has been encouraged in recent years throughout Europe. In this paper we try and analyse the welfare effects of these reforms in Italy, with particular attention to water and energy goods. The first step is to introduce a sensible measure of affordability of...

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On the Legitimacy of Coercion for the Financing of Public Goods

Bierbrauer, Felix - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...

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On Regulation and Competition: Pros and Cons of a Diversified Monopolist

Scarpa, Carlo; Calzolari, Giacomo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We study the regulation of a firm which supplies a regulated service while also operating in a competitive, unregulated … (with price and quantity competition) and optimal regulation that involves an informational externality to the competitors …. Although joint conduct of the activities generates scope economies, it also entails private information, so that regulation is …

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Investment Size and Firm’s Value Under Profit Sharing Regulation

Moretto, Michele; Panteghini, Paolo M.; Scarpa, Carlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

In this article we analyse the effects of different regulatory schemes (price cap and profit sharing) on a firm’s investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a firm’s start-up decision relative to a pure price...

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