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Innovation Complementarity and Environmental Productivity Effects: Reality or Delusion? Evidence from the EU
Gilli, Marianna; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 … complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and … productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904932
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607436
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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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The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills Across Sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642164
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From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization
Megginson, William L.; Netter, Jeffry M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
This study surveys the academic and professional literature examining the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with a focus on empirical studies. Privatisation has been instrumental in reducing state ownership in many countries and had a transforming effect on global stock markets,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423173
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Accounting for Different Uncertainties: Implications for Climate Investments?
Hector, Svenja - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a general framework that can cope with various forms of uncertainty, it is shown that the response of the consumption discount rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904906
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Climate Change and Adaptation: The Case of Nigerian Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land productivity in a computable general equilibrium model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904911
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Leadership and International Climate Cooperation
Schwerhoff, Gregor - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904926
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Sharing of Climate Risks across World Regions
Emmerling, Johannes - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
-dependent Arrow-Debreu securities. We show that this allows equalizing relative consumption differences between states of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941054
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Luring Others into Climate Action: Coalition Formation Games with Threshold and Spillover Effects
Bosetti, Valentina; Heugues, Melanie; Tavoni, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
emission reductions in non-signatories countries. In addition, the leaders’ coalition might also work as innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268585