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Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The prospect of federal action raises important questions regarding the interconnections between federal efforts and state-level climate policy...

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Energy Efficiency and Industrial Output: The Case of the Iron and Steel Industry

Flues, Florens; Rübbelke, Dirk; Vögele, Stefan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

The iron and steel industry is one of the most carbon emitting and energy consuming sectors in Europe. At the same time this sector is of high economic importance for the European Union. Therefore, while public environmental and energy policies target this sector, there is political concern that...

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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

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory …, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and … produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China’s energy mix, as Beijing …

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Corruption, Exogenous Changes in Incentives and Deterrence

Vita, Giuseppe Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

In this article we apply and extend the model elaborated by Acemoglu and Verdier in their seminal paper (2000), to examine how the economy represented in their theoretical framework responds to an exogenous change in the agent's incentive. In particular, we focus on the consequences of a famous...

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Ambiguous Beliefs on Damages and Civil Liability Theories

Mondello, Gérard - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper analyzes the meaning of comparing the economic performance of strict liability and negligence rule in a unilateral standard accident model under Knightian uncertainty. It focuses on the cost expectation of major harm on which the injurers form beliefs. It shows first that, when the...

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The Equivalence of Strict Liability and Negligence Rule: A « Trompe l'œil » Perspective

Mondello, Gérard - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper analyzes the difficulties of comparing the respective effectiveness of two among the most important liability regimes in tort law: rule of negligence and strict liability. Starting from the standard Shavellian unilateral accident scheme, I show that matching up liability regime on...

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The Value of Reducing Cancer Risks at Contaminated Sites: Are More Heavily Exposed People Willing to Pay More?

Alberini, Anna; Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We use conjoint choice questions to investigate people’s tastes for cancer risk reductions and income in the context of public programs that would provide for remediation at abandoned industrial contaminated sites. Our survey was self-administered using the computer by persons living in the...

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Rates of Time Preferences for Saving Lives in the Hazardous Waste Site Context

Alberini, Anna; Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

What is the rate at which people discount future lives saved? The answer to this question has important implications when comparing policies on the grounds of cost per life saved, especially in the context of hazardous waste site remediation, where risk reductions may occur at different times,...

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Paying for Permanence: Public Preferences for Contaminated Site Cleanup

Alberini, Anna; Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

We use conjoint choice questions to investigate people’s preferences for income and reductions in mortality risks delivered by contaminated site remediation policies. Our survey is self-administered using the computer by residents of four cities in Italy with severely contaminated sites. We...

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Agriculture, Water Resources and Water Policies in Italy

Massarutto, Antonio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

This paper provides an overview of the Italian water management system, with particular reference to the links between agriculture and water resources, and emphasis on underground resources. Our objective is mainly descriptive at this level; nonetheless, we try to evaluate patterns of...

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