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International Environmental Agreements under Uncertainty: Does the Veil of Uncertainty Help?
Finus, Michael; Pintassilgo, Pedro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Na and Shin (1998) showed that the veil of uncertainty can be conducive to the success of self-enforcing international environmental agreements. Later papers confirmed this negative conclusion about the role of learning. In the light of intensified research efforts worldwide to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465547
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The Influence of Climate Change Considerations on Energy Policy: The Case of Russia
Markandya, Anil; Golub, Alexander; Strukova, E. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
To those working on climate change it is obvious that energy policy should be influenced by climate change considerations. The question that this paper seeks to answer is, to what extent do they influence policy and what contribution can a careful analysis of the costs and benefits of climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423161
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Monetary Value Assessment of Clam Fishing Management Practices in the Venice Lagoon: Results from a Stated Choice Exercise
Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Rossetto, Luca; Blaeij, Arianne de - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
This article focuses on the economic valuation of alternative clam management practices in the Venice Lagoon. The proposed valuation method is characterized by the design of a survey questionnaire next to the fishermen population. In each questionnaire two fishing alternatives are described. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423185
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Analysis and Evaluation of Ecosystem Resilience: An Economic Perspective
Vergano, Lucia; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper focuses on the analyses and evaluation of resilience anchored in an economic perspective. Resilience, as well as most of the benefits provided by ecosystems, is not priced on current markets. However, this does not mean that resilience is of no value for humans. On the contrary, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570360
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Sticks and Carrots for the Design of International Climate Agreements with Renegotiations
Weikard, Hans-Peter; Dellink, Rob - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
This paper examines stability of international climate agreements for carbon abatement under an optimal transfer rule and renegotiations. The optimal transfer rule suggested to stabilise international environmental agreements (Weikard 2005, Carraro, Eyckmans and Finus 2006) is no longer optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230859
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Equity and Justice in Global Warming Policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990070
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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732280
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Contributing or Free-Riding? A Theory of Endogenous Lobby Formation
Konishi, Hideo; Furusawa, Taiji - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
We consider a two-stage public goods provision game: In the first stage, players simultaneously decide if they will join a contribution group or not. In the second stage, players in the contribution group simultaneously offer contribution schemes in order to influence the government’s choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990061
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Bidding among Friends and Enemies
Ettinger, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second … independently from the identity of the winner. We prove that the first-price auction is not affected by this kind of price-externalities … by the presence of such price-externalities. In any case, in comparison with the first-price auction, the second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423117
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Contracting with Externalities and Outside Options
Bloch, Francis; Gomes, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
encompasses many economic models with externalities and outside options. We show that when outside options are pure (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385394