The paper provides a joint theoretical–empirical investigation to assess the adoption by manufacturing firms of innovations aimed at improving waste related performance. In line with the recent emphasis on the ‘external’ factors stimulating innovation, which often are more important than...

We contribute to the theoretical and empirical literature on waste trade, with a focus on the secondhand market of plastic materials. To do this, we take two main steps: we first model a two-country setting with an exporting and an importing country, to derive testable predictions on how their...

We address the issue of emission tax harmonization in a model featuring two representative firms located in two countries. Firms are subject to an international emissions trading system and to domestic emissions taxation; the latter generates public revenue but also implies implementation costs....

This paper addresses the role speculation may play in environmental protection under emissions trading. We build a two period model with n firms and a representative speculator, and compare a benchmark case with no speculation with one where speculation takes place under environmental policy...

This paper investigates the relation between income distribution and direct households’ emissions in Italy. Our results seem to confirm some recent articles concerned with incomepollution relationship in other countries. Indeed, our empirical analysis shows that decreasing inequality would...