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Regulatory Distance and the Transfer of New Environmentally Sound Technologies: Evidence from the Automobile Sector
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
corresponding data on non-resident patent filing of automotive environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) in 49 countries between …
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Clean and Dirty International Technology Diffusion
Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833937
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The Allure of Technology: How France and California Promoted Electric Vehicles to Reduce Urban Air Pollution
Calef, David; Goble, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
All advanced industrialized societies face the problem of air pollution produced by motor vehicles. In spite of striking improvements in internal combustion engine technology, air pollution in most urban areas is still measured at levels determined to be harmful to human health. Throughout the...
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Enviromental Performance and Regional Innovation Spillovers
Costantini, Valeria; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
The achievement of positive environmental performance at national level could strongly depend on differences in local capabilities of both institutions and the private business sector. Environmental regulation alone is a weak instrument if the institutional and business environment cannot...
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On the Mechanism of International Technology Diffusion for Energy Productivity Growth
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
International diffusion of advanced environment and energy-related technologies has received much attention in recent environmental economics studies. As a much needed complement to the “black box” complex numerical modelling, this paper contributes to developing a simple, intuitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770383
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Capital-embodied Technologies in CGE Models
Lennox, James; Parrado, Ramiro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are widely used to analyse macroeconomic and sectoral effects of climate policies. Developing new and improving existing carbon-free energy technologies will be crucial to limit the long-term economic costs of mitigation policies. Such technologies are...
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From Energy-intensive to Innovation-led Growth: On the Transition Dynamics of China’s Economy
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
Whether China continues its current energy-intensive growth path or adopts a sustainable development prospect has significant implication for energy and climate governance. Building on a Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans growth model incorporating the mechanism of endogenous technological change and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162071
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Brown Sunsets and Green Dawns in the Industrial Sector: Environmental Innovations, Firm Behavior and the European Emission Trading
Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...
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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
This paper investigates whether an inefficient allocation of abatement, due to constraints on the use of currently available low carbon mitigation options, can promote innovation in new technologies and eventually generate welfare gains. We focus on the case of nuclear power phase out, when...
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ETS and Technological Innovation: A Random Matching Model
Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
The present paper investigates the functioning of an Emission Trading System (ETS) and its impact on the diffusion of environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms’ strategic behaviours and sanctions to non-compliant firms. For this purpose, we study an evolutionary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904915