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The Role of R&D and Technology Diffusion in Climate Change Mitigation: New Perspectives Using the Witch Model
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
This paper uses the WITCH model, a computable general equilibrium model with endogenous technological change, to explore the impact of various climate policies on energy technology choices and the costs of stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations. Current and future expected carbon prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012143
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The Pace of Technology Transfer in Anticipation of Joint Venture Breakup
Soubeyran, Rapahel; Long, Ngo Van; Soubeyran, Antoine - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
This paper studies the properties of joint-venture relationship between a technologically advanced multinational firm and a local firm operating in a developing economy where the ability to enforce contracts is weak. We formulate a dynamic model of principal-agent relationship in which at any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502113
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Nuclear versus Coal plus CCS: A Comparison of Two Competitive Base-load Climate Control Options
Tavoni, Massimo; Zwaan, Bob van der - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
In this paper we analyze the relative importance and mutual behavior of two competing base-load electricity generation options that each are capable of contributing significantly to the abatement of global CO2 emissions: nuclear energy and coal-based power production complemented with CO2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502125
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What Should We Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can … innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467309
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Strategic Immigration Policies and Welfare in Heterogeneous Countries
Fujita, Masahisa; Weber, Shlomo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
In this paper we consider a model with two industrialised countries and immigrants that come from “the rest of the world”. The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias towards immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570317
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Diversity and Pluralism: An Economist's View
Genovese, Nicola; Spada, Maria Grazia La - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
The problems about diversity concern various themes. We will show that the economic theory can contribute by itself to the debate in progress. It could seem paradoxical, but what is called the “dismal science” can serve to attenuate some pessimistic attitudes, putting in prominence a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230845
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Economic and Environmental Effectiveness of a Technology-based Climate Protocol
Carraro, Carlo; Buchner, Barbara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
emission control with international cooperation on climate-related technological innovation and diffusion. This idea – recently … innovation and diffusion than when they cooperate on emission abatement. However, technological cooperation – without any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385383
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The ICT Revolution: Opportunities and Risks for the Mezzogiorno
Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Pinelli, Dino - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385512
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The Political Economy of Oil and the Crisis of the Arab State System
Atzori, Daniel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
This paper argues that the so-called Arab spring is part of a tectonic shift which signals the frailty of the Arab state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to create systems of incentives and disincentives in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833943
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Profit Sharing under the Threat of Nationalization
Corato, Luca Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489589