In line with economic theory, carbon ETS determines a rise in marginal cost equal to the carbon opportunity cost regardless of whether carbon allowances are allocated free of charge or not. This paper aims at evaluating to what extent firms in imperfectly competitive markets will pass-through...

In this paper, we attempt to measure the environmental benefits of hydrogen deployment in the transportation sector. We compare the hydrogen pathways to the conventional transportation fuel cycles in terms of external costs, estimated using the results of the most accurate methodologies...

<i> Crescita, commercio internazionale e accessibilità: Ucraina e Italia a confronto nel contesto mediterraneo </i> (di Enrico Musso, Marco Benacchio, Liliya Chernyavs’ka) - ABSTRACT: Questo lavoro si propone di condurre un confronto - nel contesto macroeconomico del bacino mediterraneo - fra...

This article focuses on district hearing and especially on CHP (Combined heat and power generation) district heating. In particular, the author aims at highlighting the real technological and economic nature of this kind of energy supply. This in order to check how useful heat delivered to final...

Simulation models of emissions trading performance are generally based on the assumption that carbon prices are fully (or almost fully) passed through to energy prices (with pass-through rates equal or very close to one). Unfortunately, empirical analyses of wholesale electricity spot markets do...

Recently, looking at the incoming tenders for the new territorial districts in Italy, the Italian energy authority approved the new regulatory regime for the natural gas distribution where the difference between the VIR (residual industrial value) and the RAB (regulatory assets based) is...