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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
energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642155
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Linking Reduced Deforestation and a Global Carbon Market: Impacts on Costs, Financial Flows, and Technological Innovation
Bosetti, Valentina; Lubowski, Ruben; Golub, Alexander; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008035
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Environmental Regulations, Market Structure and Technological Progress in Renewable Energy Technology — A Panel Data Study on Wind Turbines
Rübbelke, Dirk; Weiss, Pia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002692
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Inducing Low-Carbon Investment in the Electric Power Industry through a Price Floor for Emissions Trading
Brauneis, Alexander; Loretz, Michael; Mestel, Roland; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Uncertainty about long-term climate policy is a major driving force in the evolution of the carbon market price. Since this price enters the investment decision process of regulated firms, this uncertainty increases the cost of capital for investors and might deter invest-ments into new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421248
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Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services. Micro-Evidence from Italy
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423052
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors
Rubashkina, Yana; Galeotti, Marzio; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941067
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642166
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellman, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467316
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Facing the Experts: Survey Mode and Expert Elicitation
Baker, Erin; Bosetti, Valentina; Jenni, Karen E.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
In this paper we compare the results of two different expert elicitation methods: in-person interviews and a self-administered web-based survey. Traditional expert elicitation has been done face to face, with an elicitor meeting with an expert for a few hours to several days, depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833935
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Innovation Benefits from Nuclear Phase-out: Can they Compensate the Costs?
Cian, Enrica De; Carrara, Samuel; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
available low carbon mitigation options, can promote innovation in new technologies and eventually generate welfare gains. We … due to both climate and innovation market failures. Our results show that phasing out nuclear power stimulates additional … R&D investments and deployment of infant technologies with large learning potential. The innovation benefits which this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607434