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Emissions trends and labour productivity dynamics sector analyses of de-coupling/recoupling on a 1990-2005 Namea
Marin, Giovanni; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2009
pollutants at sector level. A panel dataset based on the Italian NAMEA over 1990-2005 is analysed, focusing on both emission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279561
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Technology Invention and Diffusion in Residential Energy Consumption. A Stochastic Frontier Approach
Marin, Giovanni; Palma, Alessandro - 2015
Traditional large appliances absorb a large share of residential electricity consumption and represent important targets of energy policy strategies aimed at achieving energy security. Despite being characterized by rather mature technologies, this group of appliances still offers large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451173
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Neoclassical growth, environment and technological change: the environmental Kuznets curve
Rubio, S. J.; García, J. R.; Hueso, J. L. - 2009
The paper investigates socially optimal patterns of economic growth and environmental quality in a neoclassical growth model with endogenous technological progress. In the model, the environmental quality affects positively not only to utility but also to production. However, cleaner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279534
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Regional and sector environmental efficiency empirical evidence from structural shift-share analysis of NAMEA data
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2009
This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279587
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What Factors Affect the Competiveness of Power Generation Sector in China? An Analysis Based on Game Cross-efficiency
Xie, Bai-Chen; Gao, Jie; Zhang, Shuang; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2017
China’s unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation sector, to improve its operational efficiency. Meanwhile, great concern about a range of environmental problems and global climate change increasingly calls for saving energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662422
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Municipal Waste Production, Economic Drivers, and New Waste Policies: EKC Evidence from Italian Regional and Provincial Panel Data
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Zoboli, Roberto - 2006
This paper provides empirical evidence on delinking and Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for municipal waste production in Italy. First, methodological issues and literature on delinking and EKC for waste are critically re-examined. Secondly, we analyse two very disaggregated panel datasets on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312275
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Economic Dynamics, Emission Trends and the EKC Hypothesis New Evidence Using NAMEA and Provincial Panel Data for Italy
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007
-2000 emissions at province level; and sectoral disaggregated NAMEA emissions sources for 1990-2001 are analyzed. We find mixed … evidence supporting the EKC hypothesis. Some of the pollutants in the NAMEA data, such as CO2, CH4 and CO, produce inverted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312493
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Environmental Efficiency, Emission Trends and Labour Productivity: Trade-Off or Joint Dynamics? Empirical Evidence Using NAMEA Panel Data
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007
on employees) over a dynamic path. We exploit official NAMEA data sources for Italy over 1990-2002 for 29 sectoral … the analysis of the aforementioned hypothesis by exploiting a panel data set based on official NAMEA sectoral … stocks and trade openness are extensions which may add value to future analyses carried out on the same NAMEA dataset. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312638
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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012
This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294262
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Cournot competition and "green" innovation: An inverted-U relationship
Lambertini, Luca; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tampieri, … - 2015
We examine the relationship between competition and innovation in an industry where production is polluting and R&D aims to reduce emissions ("green" innovation). We present an n-firm oligopoly where firms compete in quantities and decide their investment in "green" R&D. When environmental...
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