Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Eventi

L'evento è promosso da Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile e Société Générale Securities ServicesIl settore immobiliare deve affrontare importanti sfide ambientali e sociali, come la riduzione delle emissioni inquinanti e la crescita dell’urbanizzazione su scala globale. Il seminario sarà incentrato sul tema dell’immobiliare...

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On the 18th of June, the European Commission has released the update of the Non-Binding Guidelines for Non-Financial Reporting (NBG). This document, which is part of the EU Action Plan on Financial Sustainable Growth, takes into account the Recommendations of the Task Force...

La Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei partecipa alla prima Milano Summer School sul benessere a la sostenibilità delle città.Dal 31 agosto al 7 settembre 2019 si terrà la prima edizione della Milano Summer School sul benessere e la sostenibilità delle città. La Scuola è...

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As the the evidence on the links between climate change and business is becoming clearer, the debate on these connections is expanding and engaging an increasing number of stakeholders and discussants. At the European level, the discussion fits into the regulatory framework set...

The 2019 EAERE-FEEM Summer School will take place from June 30th to July 6th at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. It is organized by the European Association of Environmental...

Lo Studio Rödl & Partner, con la collaborazione dell’Associazione per il Commercio Italo Keniana, l’Associazione Caffè Trieste e la Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, organizza l’evento “From bean to cup: insight on Kenyan coffee” per approfondire la conoscenza di un prodotto di altissima...

Since the early 2000s, Sub-Saharan Africa has taken important steps towards greater stability and towards achieving the SDGs set out by the 2030 Agenda. The region is undergoing profound economic, political and social transformations. From an economic point of view, some of the...

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Kenya Institute for Public Policy and Research Analysis (KIPPRA) co-launch a high-level Workshop for the presentation of their respective integrated models for country analysis.FEEM will introduce its in-house developed framework country study, FEEM CIVICS (ComprehensIVe & Integrated...

L’Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, firmata da tutti i Paesi facenti parte dell’ONU sta diventando sempre più un framework di riferimento per la messa a punto di politiche Nazionali e Regionali e strategie aziendali di sviluppo sostenibile. Scopo di questa conferenza, svolta...

La crescente rilevanza della sostenibilità in ambito aziendale e finanziario, congiuntamente alla stretta necessità di una rapida attuazione dell’Agenda 2030, richiedono una riflessione sull’adeguamento della formazione accademica e professionale nell’ambito dell’educazione finanziaria sostenibile dei futuri decision makers. Le imprese, in numero crescente, indirizzano...

I rischi e le opportunità del cambiamento climatico porteranno a una sostanziale evoluzione dei modelli di business. Tutti gli attori – le imprese, il mondo della ricerca, le autorità di regolamentazione, gli organismi internazionali, i governi, gli enti locali – sono chiamati a...

Il 3 giugno alle 15.00 presso l'Università degli Studi di Siena (UNISI) si tiene la presentazione del nuovo numero di Equilibri "Lo Stato ibrido - forme di governo in Africa, Asia e America Latina". Alla presentazione intervengono Giulio Sapelli, Consigliere di Amministrazione di...

Lo sviluppo sostenibile riguarda tutti gli aspetti ambientali, sociali, economici, che spesso sono erroneamente percepiti come separati dalla vita quotidiana. Capire cosa significa sviluppo sostenibile significa coltivare una nuova sensibilità verso il cambiamento del modo di pensare e agire. Per promuovere questa nuova...

Nell’ambito del Festival per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile 2019, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei ospita la lecture di Moctar Sacande rivolta all’agricoltura in Africa Subsahariana e l’apporto di FAO. L’evento si terrà in data mercoledì 22 maggio 2019 ore 17.30 presso la Fondazione Eni Enrico...

Il terzo incontro del ciclo di conferenze   sull'Europa economica si terrà il 14 maggio alle ore 18.30 a Matera.   I relatori - Domenico De Masi, sociologo e professore di sociologia del lavoro, e Oscar Farinetti, imprenditore e fondatore di Eataly - approfondiranno un...

FEEM partecipa all'incontro, realizzato nell'ambito del progetto H2020 Urban_Wins presso l'Università IUAV di Venezia. L'evento ha lo scopo di mostrare da un lato i risultati del progetto, dall'altro di rilanciare nel quadro europeo e nazionale la questione del metabolismo urbano e dell'economia circolare, aprendo...

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SpeakersBenno Albrecht, Jacopo Galli, Francesco Musco, Domenico Patassini – IUAV Sara Amare, Daniel Semunugus, Biniam Tekle, Haile Gebre-Egziabher – Mekelle University Silvia Beghelli, Stefano Pareglio, Riccardo Spani – Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Victor Bay – Kinshasa UniversityMathewos Bekele – City of Addis Ababa...

This paper investigates health externalities generated by air transportation. As a source of exogenous variation, we use an unannounced five-month trial that reduced early morning aircraft landings at London Heathrow airport. Our measure of health is prescribed medication usage for conditions known to...

IntroduzioneLa Transizione Energetica è un concetto nascente relativo alla trasformazione che dovrà subire il settore energetico globale da sistema basato su fonti fossili ad ambito sostanzialmente decarbonizzato, idealmente con orizzonte 2050. Tale concetto è guidato dalla necessità di ridurre le emissioni di CO2...

Il 2 aprile alle 14.00 presso Palazzo Gallenga a Perugia si tiene la presentazione del nuovo numero di Equilibri "Lo Stato ibrido - forme di governo in Africa, Asia e America Latina". Alla presentazione intervengono Giulio Sapelli, Consigliere di Amministrazione di Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Veronica...

Il 2 e 3 aprile si è svolto presso la sede della Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) di Milano il workshop di 2 giorni “Roadmap toward Total Decarbonization in 2050”, co-organizzato da Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei e UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Paolo...

I ricercatori del Programma di Ricerca “Firms And Cities Towards Sustainability - FACTS” di FEEM saranno gli   speakers del ciclo di seminari “FEEM@IUAV” presso la Scuola di Dottorato Magistrale in Pianificazione e Politiche per la Città, il Territorio e l’Ambiente, Università IUAV di...

Si terrà il 21 marzo presso il Campus   UNIBAS   (Università degli Studi della Basilicata)   la presentazione del nuovo numero di Equilibri "Lo Stato ibrido - forme di governo in Africa, Asia e America Latina".   Nel corso della conferenza interverranno   Giulio SAPELLI, Consigliere di...

Il secondo degli incontri sull’economia di Matera è il dialogo con Corrado Passera,   banchiere e dirigente d’azienda di fama internazionale, e Giulio Sapelli, economista storico, accademico italiano e componente del Consiglio di Amministrazione della Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. I mercati finanziari sono la...

Evidence on the links between climate change and business is becoming increasingly clear. Business decisions will either slow or accelerate the pace at which climate change will unfold. Companies face growing pressure from investors to address the risks and opportunities related to climate...

Si terrà il 19 marzo alle 18.00 presso Ateneo Veneto - Sala Tommaseo la presentazione del nuovo numero di Equilibri "Lo Stato ibrido - forme di governo in Africa, Asia e America Latina". La conferenza si terrà nell'ambito della rassegna "Verso Incroci".Il numero...

FEEM partecipa a "Visual Green Parchi Lucani" con il progetto a'Naca Basilicata, che insieme all'associazione culturale Interzona ne è il principale promotore. Durante l'evento si parlerà, tra le cose, di turismo, natura e cultura digitale. a’Naca Basilicata comunica 42 Progetti che coinvolgono tutti...

Il primo degli incontri sull’economia di Matera è un dibattito con Carlo Cottarelli e Domenico Fanizza, due fra i personaggi più qualificati per delineare una lucida e chiara analisi dell’economia italiana nel contesto internazionale. Cottarelli dopo aver ricoperto posizioni di vertice all’Fmi è...

Stand-up Science a cura di Andrea BellatiIl futuro del Pianeta è nelle mani di tutti. Ogni azione positiva, seppur minima, diventa decisiva quando è collettiva. Con Stand-Up Science, FEEM propone una visione lucida e divertente del rapporto tra Umanità e Pianeta.M'illumino di Meno...

Si terrà il 20 febbraio alle 17.30 presso il Centro Studi Americani di Roma la presentazione del nuovo numero di Equilibri "Lo Stato ibrido - forme di governo in Africa, Asia e America Latina". La conferenza sarà un'occasione per confrontarsi con Roberto Menotti (Aspen...

Si terrà l'8 febbraio alle 16.00 presso il Politecnico di Bari la presentazione del nuovo numero di Equilibri "Lo Stato ibrido - forme di governo in Africa, Asia e America Latina". Saranno presenti lo storico dell'economia Giulio Sapelli e la curatrice del volume...

Si terrà il 29 gennaio alle 18.00 presso la Libreria Hoepli a Milano la presentazione del nuovo numero di Equilibri "Lo Stato ibrido - forme di governo in Africa, Asia e America Latina". Nel corso della conferenza interverranno Giulio Sapelli, storico dell'economia, Veronica Ronchi, ricercatrice...

On Wednesday January 30, 2019 in Cape Town, FEEM participates in the High-Level dialogue of the Energy Modelling Platform for Africa (EMP-A).   High-Level dialogue of the Energy Modelling Platform for Africa (EMP-A) 2019 is a meeting jointly organised by:Association for Progressive Communication -...

L'Ambasciata Canadese in Italia, in collaborazione con la Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, organizza lunedì 28 gennaio 2019 a Roma presso Villa Grazioli un workshop sotto la Chatham House Rule sulla crisi del multilateralismo e dell'ordine mondiale individuato dopo la Guerra Fredda. Più in particolare,...

IMANI Centre for Policy & Education (IMANI) in collaboration with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) organizes a high level workshop to discuss Gas utilization, Gas Pricing and Inclusive Development in Ghana. In light of the fact that Ghana is actively exploiting its gas...

L’obiettivo è chiaro: accesso universale a sistemi di energia economici, affidabili, sostenibili e moderni. Ineludibile e improcrastinabile è una più ambiziosa strategia energetica globale, evocata dai SDG7 e SDG 13 da collocarsi nel quadro imprescindibile della lotta al cambiamento climatico, all'incremento delle misure...

Meeting the targets of climate change mitigation set by the Paris Agreement entails a huge transformation of the energy sector, as low- or no-carbon technologies are predicted to gradually substitute traditional, fossil-based technologies. From a technology perspective, power generation is at the same...

FEEM darà il suo contributo alla "XI Giornata di Studio INU - Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica"   dal titolo "Interruzioni, intersezioni, condivisioni, sovrapposizioni. Nuove prospettive per il territorio" con la pubblicazione "Sorprendente Basilicata: L’evento di marketing per la creazione del turismo enogastronomico". Il paper,...

In occasione del   25esimo anniversario dell’iscrizione dei Sassi nella lista del patrimonio mondiale, FEEM partecipa a una serie di eventi in programma dal 13 al 15 dicembre a Matera. Gli incontri sono stati organizzati dalla   Cattedra UNESCO in “Paesaggi Culturali del Mediterraneo e...

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei insieme a Fondazione Utilitatis, Fondazione Amga ed Enea promuove un ciclo di iniziative per discutere di sviluppo industriale e nuove sfide per il ciclo idrico e la gestione dei rifiuti. Il primo incontro si terrà il 5 dicembre alle...

Lo Sviluppo Sostenibile del pianeta richiede una condivisione di intenti a livello internazionale, ma non può prescindere dalla definizione di una opportuna strategia nazionale che a sua volta prende sostanza e forma attraverso i piani elaborati dai governi locali. È quindi indispensabile che...

FEEM supporta e partecipa al Workshop Internazionale "Open/Big Data & Citizen Science for Water, Food, Energy and Environment" portando una relazione all'High-level Panel Debate (previsto per le ore 12.15) dal titolo "La trasformazione digitale e le sfide globali dell’acqua, del cibo, dell’energia e...

Gli investitori chiedono alle imprese una rendicontazione sempre più puntuale degli impatti finanziari legati al cambiamento climatico, in modo da valutare i rischi e le opportunità per il business, anche nel medio e lungo termine. Per rispondere a questa domanda, le imprese implementano...

The links between environmental policies, innovation/invention and socio-economic performance have been variously analyzed at micro and meso levels through quantitative lenses. Though the literature that investigates the effects of energy prices and environmental policies has expanded, there is still room for original analyses...

Quali sono gli elementi che creano innovazione in un'impresa turistica?Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, insieme all'Ufficio Studio di Unioncamere Basilicata, ha risposto a questo interrogativo attraverso l’analisi dei nuovi modelli di business aziendali nel turismo e dei fabbisogni formativi degli operatori. Il progetto InnovACTION...

Laura Cavalli, ricercatrice FEEM e network manager di SDSN Italia, partecipa alla XXXV assemblea annuale dell'Anci “Prima cittadini. Sindaci, fuori dal luogo Comune” che si tiene dal 23 al 25 ottobre a Rimini. Al centro del suo intervento   “Agenda 2030 – Da Globale...

L’Agenda 2030 è una promessa da parte dei leader a tutte le persone in tutto il mondo. È un'agenda per le persone, per porre fine alla povertà in tutte le sue forme. (Ban Ki-moon, 2015). Ma cosa ci chiede l’Agenda 2030? Come si...

Global Compact Italia promuove la terza edizione dell'Italian Business & SDGs Annual Forum che si svolge a Matera l'11 e il 12 ottobre. L’evento si realizza con la collaborazione di FEEM e con il supporto di Edison SpA, Ergo Srl, Leonardo SpA, Reale...

The recently adopted Italian National Energy Strategy (2017) sets out a plan for the complete phase-out of coal production by 2025, which today still accounts for more than 15% of the electricity generated in Italy. Given the pace of electrification of the energy...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between immigration flows and internal mobility in Italy during the period 2003-2011. Using semiparametric negative binomial gravity models with smooth spatio-temporal trends, and dealing with endogeneity issues through a control function approach, we provide evidence of...

Breaking Down Silos: promuovere l'azione collaborativa sugli SDGs   è il tema della sesta Conferenza internazionale annuale sullo sviluppo sostenibile (ICSD), che si terrà dal 26 al 28 settembre 2018 alla Columbia University di New York City. Lo scopo della conferenza è riunire persone...

FEEM partecipa al Leadership Council di SDSN a New York dal 23 al 24 settembre 2018. Il Leadership Council di SDSN riunisce i leader globali per lo sviluppo sostenibile di tutte le regioni del mondo. Durante questi giorni verranno approfonditi e discusse molte...

FEEM racconta il futuro della Basilicata a Go Heroes, il primo festival euro mediterraneo dedicato all'impresa, all'innovazione tecnologica e al mondo della finanza. L'appuntamento è il 20 settembre a Maratea dove il responsabile dei Progetti Territorio, Cristiano Re, illustra il programma "a'Naca Basilicata - Orizzonti Sostenibili". L'iniziativa...

Il 17-19 Settembre 2018 si tiene a Bolzano la XXXIX Conferenza scientifica annuale dell’Associazione Italiana di Scienze Regionali   (A.I.S.Re.)   sul tema “Le regioni d’Europa tra identità locali, nuove comunità e disparità territoriali”.   La conferenza passa in rassegna le analisi, le metodologie, le proposte...

FEEM partecipa all'XI Conferenza ESPAnet Italia 2018 – Oltre la continuità – Le sfide del welfare in un mondo globale   – organizzata dall'Università degli Studi di Firenze presso il Polo di Scienze Sociali. La conferenza, che si svolge dal 13 al 15...

Dal 12 al 15 settembre Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei partecipa a Matera all'VIII Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale con il progetto “a'Naca Basilicata” che raccoglie, cura e comunica le azioni e le iniziative di sostenibilità che riguardano la Basilicata. Il Congresso è promosso...

This paper provides an analysis of the link between the global market for crude oil and oil futures risk premium at the aggregate level. It offers empirical evidence on whether the compensation for risk required by the speculators depends on the type of...

In the European Union (EU) periurban agriculture is under the same agri-environmental policy regime designed for general agriculture. We argue that the specific needs of periurban agriculture may justify ad hoc agri-environmental policy measures. We present results from a Choice Experiment (CE) performed...

The 2018 Summer School will take place from June 30th to July 6th at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The topic covered by the 2018 Summer School is the...

We estimate the spatial distribution profile of the population living without access in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using NOAA’s VIIRS satellite night light imagery and the CIESIN’s GPW gridded population dataset, we produce a high-resolution map of the unlit population in the region for year...

La crescita economica del continente africano - sotto il profilo degli investimenti, della digitalizzazione e dei mercati interni - è stata vista negli scorsi anni con speranza. Tuttavia, permangono conflitti in diversi Stati e in altri le strutture educative e culturali dello Stato...

We test whether prosumers change their electricity consumption behavior after the installation of solar photovoltaic panels. Based on a large sample of residential PV installation in Wallonia, the answer is positive and we observe a significant consumption increase after the installation of the...

The 37th edition of the International Energy Workshop (IEW) will be hosted by the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden on June 19-21, 2018.   We look forward to welcoming you to Gothenburg for the IEW 2018.The IEW is a leading conference for the...

The 11th International Workshop on Empirical Methods in Energy Economics (EMEE 2018) will be hosted by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei at the Palazzo delle Stelline (Milan, Italy) on 14-15 June 2018.The EMEE 2018 is intended as a forum for the development and application...

Nel 2016 FEEM ha avviato una ricerca sui rischi e sulle opportunità che il cambiamento climatico comporta per gli attuali modelli di business nell’ambito del progetto DeRisk-CO. Tutti gli attori – il mondo della ricerca, le autorità di regolamentazione, gli organismi internazionali, i...

The energy world is going through a profound transformation as two trends reshape the energy system: decarbonisation and digitalisation. Which role can digitalization play to meet sustainable energy needs? Digital technologies are important for sustainability, as they can be a key enabler of...

Con l'evento del 7 giugno si conclude il ciclo di undici incontri "Sviluppo Sostenibile: Gli obiettivi delle Nazioni Unite 2015-2030” organizzati dall'Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere   per illustrare - in una prospettiva multidisciplinare e grazie all’intervento di esperti in diverse discipline...

In this paper I will discuss an aspect of the problem of how to divide the World’s remaining “carbon budget” - the amount of CO2-e that can be emitted if we are to avoid dangerous climate change. I will argue that there is...

Per città in continuo cambiamento, sostenibilità non significa solo declinare a livello urbano gli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile concordati a livello internazionale. Significa far dialogare urbanistica, scienze sociali, ambientali ed economiche, mobilità, politiche energetiche e rendere reali le aspirazioni dell’Agenda 2030 per comunità,...

Il concorso è stato promosso da Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei e Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ed è rivolto ai giovani under 30 per l'individuazione di soluzioni innovative ad alto impatto sociale in grado di contribuire al raggiungimento, in Italia, degli Obiettivi di...

The event will be held in Italian.Diversi studi evidenziano come sempre più turisti prestino attenzione alla sostenibilità dei servizi turistici nel pianificare e acquistare la propria vacanza. Avere un modello di business che contempli pratiche di sostenibilità e politiche di gestione green è...

The event will be held in Italian.Tra gli operatori del turismo riscuote sempre più interesse il tema dell’innovazione quale fattore determinante per accrescere il capitale competitivo sui mercati. Le politiche di sostenibilità rappresentano uno strumento importante di competitività. Dalle indagini effettuate da FEEM...

The presentation will be based on a recent OECD report. It provides a new perspective on the nature of urban sprawl, its causes and its consequences. This perspective, which is based on the multi-dimensionality of the phenomenon, sets the foundations for the construction...

La Strategia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (SNSvS), presentata al Consiglio dei Ministri il 2 ottobre 2017 e approvata dal CIPE il 22 dicembre 2017, è strutturata in cinque aree, corrispondenti alle cosiddette "5P" dello sviluppo sostenibile proposte dall'Agenda 2030: Persone, Pianeta, Prosperità,...

The panel discussion, organized by the CEE Network for Gender Issues will seek to address the social and economic challenges currently faced by green-agriculture producers and women in the wake of the Great Recession, as they try to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals...

Obiettivo dell'evento è mostrare come l'Integrated Thinking possa costituire un ponte tra gli obiettivi delle società e le strategie di sostenibilità. Vengono presentate   best practice relative a come le aziende possano ripensare i propri modelli di business, i processi di gestione, di misurazione,...

Floods and droughts force over 25 million people into poverty annually, 30 times more than all other natural disasters combined (WB 2017). Developing a reservoir system to mitigate these risks requires an integrated understanding of long-term variability in supply and how supply and...

                                   Segui l'evento visitando questa pagina sul sito del Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile 2018!Il 25 maggio è la giornata del Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile di ASviS dedicata al Goal...

La Città metropolitana di Milano organizza dei meeting di informazione nella sede istituzionale di via Vivaio, affiancandosi al Politecnico di Milano per l'intera giornata. Questo duplice punto degli eventi organizzati per il 25 maggio sono una rappresentazione di quello che si vuole affermare:...

Heat-related mortality tends to be associated with heatwaves that do not allow for sufficient acclimatisation to hot weather. In contrast, damage functions and most heatwave emergency response plans do not account for acclimatisation. Using an excess heat measure that accounts for acclimatisation, this...

With the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to 1.5 °C. Equitable distribution across countries of emissions rights consistent with these goals is contentious and involves divergent views of distributive justice. With the...

The MUSE model (the ModUlar energy systems Simulation Environment), the new modelling environment developed at Imperial College London, simulates plausible pathways of the energy systems transition to a low-carbon economy on a global scale. The model simulates the behaviour of real investors, including...

In the frame of the 2009 EU directive promoting the use of energy from renewable energy sources, Italy has reached 6 years in advance its 2020 target of a 17% share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption. In this study we...

Discrete choice as a method of preference elicitation has dominated applications for decades. However, since the turn of the century influential econometricians have persuasively advocated the use of subjective probabilities. The seminar discusses the challenges associated with the latter, the progress to date...

Following the Paris Agreement highlighting the pursuit of efforts to limit the atmospheric temperature rise to 1.5° C above its pre-industrial level, the research question has been raised that what the role of climate engineering in compliance with 1.5° C-temperature target would be....

Carbon prices provide strong incentives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. A cap-and-trade program provides certainty with respect to future emission levels but uncertainty with respect to emissions prices. A carbon tax provides price certainty but uncertainty with respect to future emissions. Using a...

Si fa sempre più manifesto il nuovo ruolo dell’Africa sub-sahariana nel sistema di scambi internazionali. La retorica del continente alla deriva contraddistinto solo da violenze e povertà cede sempre più spazio a quella di un’area dinamica, ricca di opportunità, anche se non priva...

In this talk I will present the models we are currently developing and applying: SHERPA and SHERPA-city.SHERPA addresses “urban background” concentrations (spatial resolution of 7x7km, over the whole Europe), and it is a “surrogate model” of a fully-fledged Physically Based Model. Its main...

Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as well as to the migration crisis in Europe. Exploiting bilateral data...

The   Maastricht University School ofBusiness and Economics, on behalf of the Coalition Theory Network, is honoured to host the   23rd   Coalition Theory Network Workshop, to be held   on Thursday 5th   – Friday 6th   April 2018 at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht...

The complexity of the challenges put forth by the 2030 Agenda requires an integrated vision for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Africa, in particular, must plan relevant specific solutions to support its economic and social development. Thus, it is of critical...

Most of the studies that can be found in the literature analyze storage from a user’s point of view (the kind of service storage provides). Moreover the analysis of such literature suggests different approaches providing a framework for the various services which could...

The European Decarbonisation Pathway Initiative (EDPI) supports EU research and innovation policy by providing science-based evidence and informing decision makers of the main challenges and available routes to decarbonise the European economy towards 2050. A central role in this initiative is for the...

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, in collaborazione con le Camere di Commercio di Potenza e Matera, ha programmato un ciclo di seminari formativi rivolti agli operatori dell’industria turistica. Nel primo incontro “Product and Process Design nel turismo 4.0” si è parlato dell'innovazione di prodotti e...

Solar geoengineering (SG), also known as solar radiation management, has received increasing attention as an option to temporarily stabilise global temperatures. A key concern surrounding these technologies is of a strategic nature: International anarchy, heterogeneous preferences over the optimal amount of cooling, and...

The green paradox is an effect by which an increasing tax per unit on oil production, aimed at tracking damages from CO2 emissions, induces an increase in world production and a decrease in price in the near term. The increase is a rational...

Energy and power supply in Eastern African countries are among the world’s lowest, and the region represents only 1.5% of global primary energy consumption vis-à-vis 6% of total population. Only a minor share of the energy resources in the region is currently...

La Sesta Conferenza Annuale di IAERE si terrà a presso l'Università degli Studi di Torino il 15-16 febbraio 2018.Per approfondire i contenuti della conferenza visita questa pagina (in inglese)....

Climate change presents a new challenge for economic decision making in terms of impacts on different aspects of economic productivity and consumption, and also in terms of scale and speed of change in the environment and the economy. In order to control the...

The energy demand sectors industry, transport and buildings are together directly responsible for around 51 % of the global energy-related CO2 emissions and indirectly drive the emissions in the energy supply sectors. The demand sectors are characterized by many subsectors, technologies, heterogeneous end-users...

We analyze the implications of environmental policy on pollution in a stochastic framework with finite horizon and sustainability concern. The social planner seeks to minimize the social (environmental and economic) costs associated with pollution. We allow for the planner to attach different relative...

La conferenzaIl 30-31 gennaio si terrà a Milano, presso la Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, la prima conferenza globale del progetto “Reporting for Results-based REDD+ Actions (RRR+)", iniziativa triennale (2017-2019) finanziata dall’Agenzia Norvegese per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (NORAD) e gestita dalla Coalizione delle...

«Youth in Action for Sustainable Development Goals - Edizione 2018» è la seconda edizione della call for ideas promossa da Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei e Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, rivolta ai giovani under 30. Il concorso ha l’obiettivo di raccogliere e...

Following the development of natural gas trading hubs in Europe, forward products have become a response to the higher exposure to price risk faced by energy companies. Yet, a significant share of trade occurs over-the-counter (OTC), where inter-dealer brokers act as intermediaries and...

La ripresa economica continuerà o I debiti causeranno una nuova crisi? L’Europa sarà in grado di gestire con successo i continui flussi migratori? Le preoccupazioni rispetto ai cambiamenti climatici condurranno a modelli di agricoltura più sostenibili? Come cambieranno gli assetti geopolitici nell’era Trump?...

L’iniziativa PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) è un programma di ricerca congiunto che mira a costituire un partenariato strutturato e di lungo termine sui temi della ricerca e dell’innovazione nel bacino del Mediterraneo, in linea con i principi...

A due anni dall'adozione da parte delle Nazioni Unite dell'Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile è possibile fare un bilancio dello stato del perseguimento degli Obiettivi (SDGs).   Da una parte i policymakers tentano di conciliare le ambizioni globali dell'Agenda con le aspirazioni e...

Il seminario si terrà in lingua inglese.Il seminario sarà tenuto da Leonardo Massai, Legal Advisor, Coalition for Rainforest Nations and co-founder Climalia e verterà su alcune delle principali conclusioni raggiunte alla COP23 di Bonn, con un focus sulle negoziazioni per il clima per...

La terza e ultima lecture del ciclo "L'Africa che cresce: andata e ritorno" è intitolata "Crescita sostenibile e lavoro dignitoso in Africa entro i planetary boundaries" ed è a cura di Elias Ayuk, Direttore dello United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa e componente del Comitato...

This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to study strategic communication by an expert who is concerned about appearing to be well informed. A reporter privately observes a signal about a state of the world and reports a message to...

La seconda lecture del ciclo "L'Africa che cresce: andata e ritorno" è intitolata "Leadership, innovazione e capitale umano per uno sviluppo sostenibile". La lecture di George N. Njenga , fondatore della Strathmore Business School University di Nairobi, intende affrontare le sfide poste dall’Agenda 2030...

Climate change raises the issue of intergenerational equity. As climate change threatens irreversible and dangerous impacts, possibly leading to extinction, the most relevant trade-off may not be between present and future consumption, but between present consumption and the mere existence of future generations....

Prima lecture del ciclo "L'Africa che cresce: andata e ritorno"Questo evento è promosso insieme a E4Impact Foundation (un'iniziativa lanciata da ALTIS – Alta Scuola Impresa e Società dell'Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore di Milano). La lecture pone al centro della riflessione l’incontro tra...

The Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation has launched a study to investigate the role of quality food and wine products within the development process, not just tourism, of a rural region such as Basilicata characterized by quality food and wine products and quality production...

This webinar, which is dedicated to the Best Climate Practice Award, is the occasion to showcase the most innovative and compelling projects that have participated in the 2017 edition of the contest, and to explore the landscape and challenges of climate resilience and...

A revolutionary new approach to measuring changes in forest carbon density has helped scientists determine that the tropical forest regions now emit more carbon than they capture, due to extensive deforestation and degradation.The landmark paper, “Tropical forests are a net carbon source based...

Climate change is projected to be a powerful stressor on terrestrial ecosystems in the second half of the 21st century, especially under high-warming scenarios such as RCP6.0 and RCP8.5.Direct human impacts such as land use and land use change, pollution, and water resource...

AIM has been working on climate change modeling and making policy suggestions for more than 20 years. The talk is going to introduce the recent AIM activities which have basically three direction.First, integrating various environmental and societal issues related to climate change is...

In the run-up to the Paris Climate Agreement and thereafter, there has been heated debate as to what the Loss and Damage debate should cover. Some have suggested that compensation for losses already incurred is to be its focus. Other observers have suggested...

FEEM is glad to host Prof. Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Prof. Hsiang and colleagues have revolutionized the way the economics of climate change impacts is carried out, using novel statistical techniques and large data...

The Italian electricity retail market is fully liberalized since 2007, allowing all households to choose between a regulated tariff and those offered in the free market. However, as of 2015, almost 70% of households remains with the regulated contract and only 3.6% moves...

This paper explores factors that impact residential adoption of environmental technologies by comparing approaches to technology adoption from economics and psychology. We design a large scale door-to-door field experiment in the spirit of Della Vigna, List, and Malmendier (2009) that identifies the influence...

Dal libro:"Sottoscritto a fine 2015 da 196 Stati, l'Accordo di Parigi costituisce un grande risultato politico-diplomatico per un'azione congiunta nella lotta al surriscaldamento globale. Le cose non stanno andando tuttavia come promesso. Quello che gli Stati stanno concretamente facendo è niente rispetto a...

Currently, a noticeable research effort is being fostered to improve the quality of sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) weather predictions, a field still with a high capacity of improvement. European energy companies have a strong interest in such climate information to improve energy efficiency...

Chi ha detto che i cambiamenti climatici possono essere raccontati solo dagli esperti?Con il concorso fotografico “Gli impatti dei cambiamenti climatici in Italia. Fotografie del presente per capire il futuro”, l’ICCG rovescia la prospettiva. Non è più il mondo della ricerca a spiegare...

When thinking about global environmental policies, such as climate change mitigation and transnational biodiversity conservation, one of the most pressing concerns is an understanding of how individual public goods contributions change when benefits from public goods provisions cross national borders and generations. We...

Poterba (1991a) has much influenced the literature on the distributional effects of carbon pricing. Poterba argues that the incidence of energy/environmental taxes across households is better appreciated if the relative tax burdens are measured against total expenditure, interpreted as a proxy for lifetime...

The workshop is structured in three sessions: 1. Role of gas in East Africa; 2. Strategies for gas demand development; 3. Developing regional transport infrastructure. Academic, think tank, public and private sector eminent experts and representatives will attend the event.   Eastern Africa Shared...

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers   19th ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE "Evidence-based environmental policies   and the optimal management of natural resources"        20 - 22 September 2017 Tilburg University, The Netherlands   Keynote Speakers Professor Steve Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Professor John List, University...

An unparalleled growth of urbanisation is putting under stress the already fragile equilibrium of natural resources: new solutions are required to address this change.The workshop brings   together experts from different disciplines to discuss this crucial issue. Among these, Joachim   Maes, Joint Research Centre...

On June, 1st, 2017, US president Donald Trump announced that his country would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord and on July, 8th, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that his country would probably not ratify the agreement either. The paper investigates...

The Paris Climate Agreement has put forests at the center of the stage. According to the countries’ pledges, forests will account for about 25% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions planned for 2030. However, to achieve and track this mitigation potential,...

    IEW 2017 Deadline for submission: February 1st, 2017 The 36th edition of the International Energy Workshop (IEW) will be hosted by the Joint Global Change Research Institute of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and University of Maryland (UMD) in College Park,...

Using the gravity framework, I investigate whether being part of the European Union (EU) reduces trade frictions between European countries. First, I show that European trade exhibits significant trade frictions in 26 manufacturing sectors, as measured by economies of scale in trade costs:...

The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Venice International University (VIU) are pleased to announce their annual European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students.The 2017 Summer School will take place from...

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Masseria Melodoro Masseria Melodoro è un progetto di agricoltura sociale nato a Nemoli per l’inserimento socio-lavorativo di 14 ragazzi svantaggiati. Qui la produzione agricola e artigianale si affianca alla promozione di azioni educative, culturali e riabilitative che coinvolgono l’intera comunità locale. Scopri...

The objective of this research is to analyze to which extent CDM investments have provided Brazilian municipalities with development benefits through the assessment of impacts on income, poverty and other development indicators. This study contributes to this strand of the literature in two...

More than two thirds of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa live without access to electricity or modern fuels for cooking. Furthermore, those who do have access to energy often need to cope with a very unreliable service. This clearly represents a major barrier...

The optimal operation of water resources systems is a wide and challenging application domain for optimal control methods and tools. Water resources systems are highly non linear systems, with large dimensional state and control spaces, affected by uncertainty and characterized by multiple competing...

The FEEM "Gas Talks" are   closed-door brainstorming workshops   gathering high-level international experts (from academia, international organizations, industry) to discuss mid- to long-term challenges and opportunities for European gas markets. The aim of the workshop is to have an informed high level discussion on...

The transition towards a low-carbon economy involves the enterprises as primary actors. Indeed, a transformation of business models is currently taking place, such that the business case for sustainability is today a popular concept among scholars and practitioners. In times of great transformations,...

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, in collaborazione con Regione Basilicata, organizza due conferenze che si svolgeranno il 5 e il 6 giugno rispettivamente a Potenza e Matera. I due eventi si svolgono all’interno della prima edizione del Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile (22 maggio...

Melbourne, like other large Australian cities, is growing outwards more than upwards. Together with the shift from manufacturing to services, this leaves a large proportion of the population to choose between unaffordable housing in inner areas with high concentrations of employment, or long...

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies may be critical to achieving deep decarbonization. Yet a lack of technical and commercial maturity of CDR technologies hinders potential deployment. This talk assesses near-term opportunities to research, develop, and demonstrate CDR technologies by leveraging existing infrastructure, technologies,...

The 2015 circular economy package has created an important momentum to support the transition towards a more circular economy in the EU. This package included legislative proposals on waste, with long-term targets to reduce landfilling and increase recycling and reuse. In order to...

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Who is the Environmental Defense? What is our history? How do we fit into the environmental community in the U.S. and around the world? What role has EDF played in the several climate change policies that Trump proposes to rollback and what we...

Polar amplification is an established scientific fact which has been associated with the surface albedo feedback and with heat and moisture transport from the Equator to the Poles.In a recent paper, Brock and Xepapadeas (2017)* unified a two-box climate model, which allows for...

The Adam Smith Business School, on behalf of the Coalition Theory Network, is honoured to host the   22nd   Coalition Theory Network Workshop, to be held on   Thursday 11th – Friday 12th May 2017   at the Adam Smith Business School of the   University of...

The methodologies and indicators that have been proposed in the literature to measure energy poverty are quite diverse. Some are subjective approaches based on personal or third parties' perceptions of affordable warmth at home; whereas others calculate objective indicators. Although these different proposals...

Il Global Risk Report 2017 del Wold Economic Forum assegna al cambiamento climatico il secondo posto tra i più importanti trend capaci di influenzare lo sviluppo globale nei prossimi dieci anni. Alle opportunità per le imprese, si associano evidenti rischi sia fisici sia...

Installed generation capacity, average electricity access and per capita electricity consumption are the world lowest across the African continent, while the level of electricity disservice the highest. There is no doubt that this situation is playing an important role in dampening structural transformation...

Presentazione del lavoro di dottorato svolto in collaborazione con l’Università degli studi della Basilicata, riguardante la valutazione della qualità ambientale del Lago Pertusillo secondo un approccio multidisciplinare. Il lago di Pietra del Pertusillo è un invaso artificiale ubicato nell’Alta Val d’Agri, nella parte...

This webinar will focus on the progress made in recent years on the topic of ecosystem-based approaches for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). It will discuss the advances on the policy front by considering the perspectives from the climate...

We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining based on an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda through variation in gender composition of the bargaining pairs as well as in disclosure of identities. We find that disagreement is common independently of the disclosure condition,...

Scientific and policy attention for natural capital and ecosystem services have grown fast during the last decade. As a result, awareness on the value of the stock of natural capital and the flow of ecosystem services it provides increased. Decision-makers from governments, business...

We investigate impacts of deep economic integration between Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia constituting the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).The absence of tariff barriers in bilateral trade opens opportunities for harmonization of NTBs. Policy measures aimed on NTBs reduction are in line with the...

The presentation will demonstrate the key role water plays for sustainable development in all its dimensions – from an economic, social and environmental perspective. The content will be based on the UN World Water Development Report (WWDR) 2017 “Wastewater: The Untapped Resource”.   It...

In 2015, the High Ambition Coalition (HAC), an amalgamation of developed and developing countries, entered the world stage at COP21 in Paris. In the presentation based on my master thesis, I assess the past performance and the potential future role of the HAC...

Ecosystems sustain society and human well-being by providing a wide spectrum of ecosystem services. Nonetheless, markets and policymakers fail to reflect the value of ecosystems appropriately in their decisions, leading to an unsustainable exploitation rate of many ecosystems over the last decades. The...

FEEM, ICCG (International Center for Climate Governance), in collaborazione con CFZ dell’Università Ca’Foscari Venezia, ospiterà l’autore Stefano Caserini per la presentazione del suo libro: “Il clima è (già) cambiato. 10 buone notizie sul cambiamento climatico” (Edizioni Ambiente, 2016).Il riscaldamento globale è la grande...

The European Union includes energy efficiency among those priority measures that citizens and Member States are asked to adopt for the achievement of as reduction of CO2 emissions and the development of green markets based upon clean energies.   This concept is strengthened also...

Households value diversity in many settings, including financial assets, gender of children, and occupations. This paper quantifies the extent to which multi-car households exhibit preferences for a diversified vehicle portfolio. We deploy a novel identification strategy to examine how an exogenous change in...

Energy storage is arguably a vital element in maintaining a healthy reliable balance between supply and demand in the presence of intermittent green technologies such as wind power. When trying to understand the current and future role of energy storage, the first consideration...

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The paper is co-authored by Francesco Vona and Giovanni Marin.The seminar is based on a paper that evaluates the historical influence of energy prices on a series of measures of environmental and economic performance for a panel of French manufacturing establishments during the...

Con l’intento di promuovere la conoscenza degli impatti dei cambiamenti climatici sul territorio italiano e la consapevolezza della necessità di un’azione urgente per affrontarli, l’International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) indice il concorso “Gli impatti dei cambiamenti climatici in Italia. Fotografie del presente...

Stefano Pareglio presenterà i risultati di un'analisi, condotta in collaborazione con alcune grandi imprese italiane, sulle modalità di individuazione, valutazione, gestione e mitigazione dei rischi climatici. L'indagine svolta intende promuovere un dibattito volto ad accrescere la consapevolezza delle imprese italiane, anche in relazione...

Fifth IAERE Annual Conference   will be held at the University of Rome Tor Vergata on February 16th-17th, 2017. The call for papers is now open and submissions on all relevant topics related to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics are warmly invited.   The 2017...

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Fertility is an important driver of global carbon emissions via its effects on population growth, yet little is known about the potential for climate change to affect fertility patterns. Such a reverse effect could have two major impacts on the climate-economy system. First,...

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? Decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain – only realised if...

The reliability of damage models employed in the estimate of potential cost from natural disasters is influenced by many factors, among them some of the most important are a reliable spatial representation of the exposed value and a damage function which has been...

Drought risks and water scarcity are expected to intensify as a result of human-induced climate change and could pose threats to the stability of the domestic agri-food markets. Some areas in Europe, notably the Mediterranean countries, are more prone to prolonged drought spells...

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Co-authors: Angelica Gianfreda, Lucia Parisio, and Matteo PelagattiThe massive introduction of RES in electricity markets has in influenced the long-run dynamics of electricity prices and their interactions with conventional thermal production sources. Taking into account the Northern Italian zone characterized by a high...

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is broadly understood to be a key mitigation technology, yet modeling analyses provide different results regarding the applications in which it might be used most effectively. The GCAM model consistently shows significant deployment in electricity generation and in...

This course examines technical and policy options to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving adaptation to climate change.   Lectures by research scientists and one field trip in the Venice Lagoon are included in the course agenda. The course is held in Berlin (week...

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The paper presented in this seminar is co-authored by Marinella Davide.At the end of 2015 two important summits took place whose outcomes will potentially lead to a redefinition of the international policy environment in the near future. In September, the adoption of the...

The early entry into force of the Paris Agreement has really turned COP 22 into a “COP of Action”, as its official slogan declares. Important issues discussed in Marrakech include the definition of guidance for the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and adaptation communication;...

ICCG, International Center for Climate Governance, a joint initiative of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Fondazione Giorgio Cini, is pleased to host in Milan the prize-giving ceremony of the Best Climate Practices Award 2016 "Expanding access to climate finance". The 2016...

The event is dedicated to geol. Francesco Puma, Secretary General of the Po River Basin District Authority and organized by Silvia Santato and Jaroslav Mysiak hosted by FEEM in Venice on November 25, 2016 at 11.00 a.m. The first part is devoted to...

The paper presented in this seminar is co-authored by Chloé Le Coq, Henrik Orzen and Sebastian Schwenen. The creation of adequate investment incentives has been of great concern in the restructur-ing of the electricity sector. However, to achieve this regulators have applied different...

WATCH THE INTERVIEWS!   Human migration has been identified as an important response to climate-induced environmental stress. By worsening the living conditions in certain places or even making habitation impossible, environmental stress induces individuals to move from one place to another. Migration represents...

This paper focuses on coastal protection against SLR. This is a typical case requiring public interventions to coordinate huge investments addressed to build protective infrastructure that will become a quasi-public good. To address properly this issue the ICES CGE model has been enhanced...

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The XXII of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) and the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12) will be held in Bab Ighli, Marrakech, Morocco from 7-18...

Climate engineering – both in terms of CO2 removal and management of incoming solar radiation   –   offers an opportunity to complement traditional mitigation strategies in the strive to limit climate change at low levels. Already, integrated assessment models have shown the importance of...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS     The 18th Annual Conference   Environmental Economics, Policy and International Environmental   Relations - "Energy and Climate Economic Modelling"   organised by Charles University & University of Economics Prague   3-4 November 2016       Deadline for...

Co-Authors: C. Gallier, J. Lohse, C. Reif & D. Römer Empirical and experimental evidence raises the possibility that parochialism, i.e. individuals’ narrow concern for local outcomes, will inevitably interfere with efficiency in the multi-level social dilemmas familiar from environmental policy. We conduct a...

2016 Climate and Environment Cinema is a series of four events jointly organized by the International Center for Climate Change (ICCG) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). They will take place from May to October 2016. Each session will include the...

The Climate-KIC Climathon   is a global 24-hour climate change event which will take place simultaneously in major cities around the world on October 28th, 2016. Climathon brings together the challenges of the world’s cities with the people who have the passion and ability...

Co-authors: Francesco Bosello, Jacopo Zotti, Fabio Eboli The DYNAMIX project aimed at identifying dynamic and robust policy mixes with concrete potential to bring the EU on a path leading to absolute decoupling of resource use and economic growth by 2050, for a selected...

The Paris Agreement reinforced the objective of keeping global temperature rise well below 2°C, and of pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Such low stabilization requires swift action and an almost full-scale decarbonization of energy...

I will present an overview of my current research projects and my research interests to seek collaboration on future research projects. In particular, I will focus on electricity interconnection and market design, analysis of consumer behaviour and smart meters, and the effects of...

Overview The 2016 Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Climate Sciences (SISC), entitled “Climate challenges and solutions under the 2°C target”,  it aims to foster the scientific debate among scientists, policy and decision makers (Italians and foreigners), NGOs members and other stakeholders whose...

The Convention gathers FEEM researchers and staff members from Milan, Venice and Viggiano.   The event agenda includes speeches of international leading scholars in the FEEM research field, traditional academic sessions in which the latest research carried out at FEEM are presented, a...

All electricity generation technologies create risks to society, such as global warming, induced seismicity, or severe industrial accidents. Scientific inquiry and wider energy debate often revolve around individual technologies. As electricity demand is supplied by a technology portfolio, phasing out one technology in...

MDBs play multiple roles in supporting climate initiatives in emerging markets – including policy reform, firm-level technical assistance, placing investments, tapping into sources of concessional funds, and mobilizing additional co-investors. These will be illustrated through 3 case studies:green bonds,scaling solar initiatives, andgreen buildings....

Next 4 October 2016,   Teatro Scuola Linguaggicreativi   will host   ICCG – International Center for Climate Governance, a joint initiative of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Fondazione Giorgio Cini Onlus – with the project “Ciack4Change”, the format proposed during Venetonight, the European Researchers’ Night...

On September 30th, 2016 at 19:30, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice,  the VenetoNight event will host ICCG – International Center for Climate Governance, a joint initiative of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Fondazione Giorgio Cini – with the project “Ciack4change”.Ciack4Change is an event...

This paper aims to evaluate the causal effect of the London Congestion Charge on the level of pollution. To this end, we have assembled a unique dataset. This consists of daily observations, concentrating on five pollutants: PM10, O3, CO, NOX, SO2. By using...

Watch the interviews with experts! NEW!   In September 2015, the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations, as the Millennium Development Goals follow-up, defined broader and more ambitious development targets for both developed and developing countries, encompassing all sustainability...

The 1st Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE) School on Computable General Equilibrium Models for Environmental Assessment in cooperation with Center for Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (IEFE), Bocconi University, will be held in Milan (Italy) from 26...

This work is co-authored by Mistry Malcolm, De Cian Enrica and Wing Ian Sue. This work is co-authored by Mistry Malcolm, De Cian Enrica and Wing Ian Sue.A rapidly growing literature employs historical observations or pseudo-data generated by Global Gridded Crop Models (GGCMs)...

The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements—collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS)—regulate the seventh continent, which is the only continent without a native human population. The main treaty within the ATS came into force in 1961 and suspended all territorial claims in...

This paper presents an agent based model for the study of coupled economic and climate dynamics that endogenously co-evolve across a range of diff erent scenarios. The model o ffers a flexible laboratory to test various combinations of macroeconomic, industrial and climate policies...

2016 Climate and Environment Cinema is a series of four events jointly organized by the International Center for Climate Change (ICCG) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). They will take place from May to October 2016. Each session will include the...

Over the last five years, North Africa has profoundly changed. After the so-called Arab Springs, the widespread instability engendered a deep power vacuum, which has been filled mainly by jihadism. At the same time, the emergence of the Islamic State as a regional...

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The seminar aims to introduce climate models as useful tools to interpret future climate evolutions. Their different typologies, recent development and capabilities, the information they can provide and how these should be correctly interpreted and potentially used outside the climate science environments, will...

This dissertation investigates the impact of climate change and climate variability on influenza, crop yields, and the determinants of climatological disasters. These domains are extremely sensitive to changes in the climatic factors which affect crucial aspects of human existence and welfare and are...

The OECD report on "The economic consequences of outdoor air pollution" provides a comprehensive assessment of the economic consequences of outdoor air pollution in the coming decades, focusing on the impacts on mortality, morbidity, and changes in crop yields as caused by high...

Insights on the past trends and determinants of energy innovation are essential to set the basis for efficient and effective climate and energy policies in the coming years. Yet, the understanding of energy-related innovation dynamics and in particular of the political economy of...

The seminar will explore the concept of ‘carbon risk’, focusing both on the risks that carbon-intensive companies are exposed to (“operator carbon risk”) and on the risks that is passed on to lenders and investors with a stake in these companies (“carbon asset...

A carbon sequestration strategy is proposed in which forests are sustainably managed to optimal carbon productivity, and a fraction of the wood is selectively harvested and stored to prevent decomposition under anaerobic, dry or cold conditions. Because a large flux of CO2 is...

This talk focuses on environmental migration in South Africa. I will first examine the sources of vulnerability within South Africa that may interact with climate variations to influence migration flows. I will then present my recent econometric study on internal migration in post-...

Long-run forecasts of productivity growth and related uncertainty have become important in policy analysis. However, a thin long-run forecast literature has led to a practice of using ranges of point estimates to partially bound this uncertainty rather than fully parameterizing uncertainty in long-run...

Carbon markets 1.0 were, and still are, closely aligned to the Kyoto Protocol, both in terms of governance, as well as in the way they function. Some of the market components are run by the UNFCCC, and they include the Clean Development Mechanism...

In the framework of the EAERE FEEM VIU Summer School 2016, the FEEM Workshop has the goal to analyze the application of the new discoveries of the behavioral economics and of the social psychology to the case of environmental behavior and of the energy...

The 2016 Summer School will take place from June 26th to July 2nd at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The topic covered by the 2016 Summer School is the...

2016 Climate and Environment Cinema is a series of four events jointly organized by the International Center for Climate Change (ICCG) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). They will take place from May to October 2016. Each session will include the...

Following a series of global changes, today the rules that so far have governed the markets, the values, the development models paradigms and the world balances are rapidly changing. The current political, social and economic upheaval are generating new balance of global governance...

Institutional investors have a very great potential in energy project financing and could meet – under particularly good circumstances with no policy barriers – 24 percent of project finance equity needs and 49 percent of project finance debt needs (in OECD countries renewable...

This closed-door brainstorming workshop will discuss how the energy system of the future will be shaped by the interaction between decarbonisation and digitalisation. This event represents the first of a workshop series developed by Bruegel, the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and the Florence...

Sustainable Development Goal 7 on the access to affordable and clean energy (SDG7) has been at the center of last COP21 whose first practical outcome, outlined in the Paris Agreement, is to stimulate implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCS) that will largely...

Monetary policy has significant environmental and social repercussions. The channels through which money in our economies is created, as well as the actions taken by central banks with regard to interest rate levels, asset purchases and macroprudential policy are key factors driving economic...

The CliMiP project aimed at analysing the relationship between climate change mitigation policies and poverty reduction combining detailed country-specific studies with broader comparative analyses. Starting point of the analysis was the lesson learned from the European experience in implementing emissions reduction policies and...

Using state contingent analysis we discuss how and why irrigators adapt to alternative water supply signals. Focusing on the timing of water allocations, we explore inherent differences in the demand for water by two key irrigation sectors: annual and perennial producers. The analysis...

Building the welfare state has been a significant part of the building of the national states in the 20th century. The European welfare models were then adopted at the global level, but during their “institutional migration” process, they acquired the typical characteristics of...

Economic instruments are varied, and their uptake differs depending on the legal, social, economic and environmental context under consideration. In some contexts pricing and public subsidization form a basis for mitigating impacts, while in others private risk-mitigation arrangements such as insurance and water...

The 35th edition of the International Energy Workshop (IEW) will be hosted by the University College Cork in Cork, Ireland on June 1–3, 2016. The IEW is a leading conference for the international energy modelling community. In a world of environmental and economic...

In collaboration with Bruegel In addition to geopolitical instability, countries located along the Southern and Eastern shore of the Mediterranean face a range of pressing socio-economic challenges, including solving the problems of poverty and high levels of structural unemployment, in a context of...

Previous research has shown that revealing players’ identities increases cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we experimentally investigate whether this finding holds true when decisions are made by teams rather than individuals. The results show that, while teams contribute more to...

The mounting number of diverse signs of the possible onset of “runaway global warming” have encouraged scientists to draw attention to the need for technically effective and economically attractive methods of actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — more specifically, to a...

Does the implementation of climate change mitigation policies in developing countries always require trading-off  economic development/poverty reduction and climate protection, or is there room for “win-win policies”?  Within the UNFCCC this question has been – up to now – most frequently divisive with...

The 21st Coalition Theory Network Workshop is the annual meeting of the CTN, a network devoted to the advancement and diffusion of research in the area of network theory and coalition formation. FEEM contributed to its creation in 1995 organizing a workshop on...

2016 Climate and Environment Cinema is a series of four events jointly organized by the International Center for Climate Change (ICCG) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). They will take place from May to October 2016. Each session will include the...

The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) successfully concluded the mandate that had been agreed upon at COP17 in Durban, South Africa in 2011, by all Parties. There, the...

During the conference “I cambiamenti climatici e l'impatto sul Food System”, held in Milano on May 12 in the context of Seeds&Chips, international summit dedicated to food innovation, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) present an overview...

Harnessing the US$300 trillion in the global financial system will be essential to make a successful transition to a prosperous, low-carbon economy. The UNEP Inquiry has uncovered a ‘quiet revolution’ in policy and market innovations to mobilise capital and mainstream sustainability factors in...

The continuing massive recourse to fossil fuel in both the energy and transport systems is hampering the development of a much needed low carbon economy in the EU. The main question has shifted from whether or not we have to de-carbonize our economy...

The provision of global public goods, such as climate change mitigation and managing fisheries to avoid overharvesting, requires the coordination of national contributions. The contributions are managed by elected governments who, in turn, are subject to public pressure on the matter. In an...

This seminar is based on a paper co-authored by Matija Kovacic, Juliana Bernhofer? and Francesco Costantini. This paper explores the relationship between linguistic variation and individual attitudes toward uncertainty and risky behavior. According to linguistic relativity hypothesis, linguistic differences in grammatical structure may...

This Policy Seminar will provide the latest updates on international climate change and energy policy. In particular, the speakers will present China’s recently-released  13th Five-Year Plan, with a concerted focus on the strategy it establishes in terms of emissions reduction and clean energy....

This seminar is based on a paper co-authored by Valentina Bosetti and Cristina Cattaneo. Climate change through a gradual warming, changes in precipitation pattern and the intensification of extreme events such as flood, droughts, storm or extreme hit, may be the cause of...

Land take opponents argue that the anthropic transformation driven by urban growth to the detriment of agriculture and the environment is excessive and often unnecessary. An extensive literature that analyses large cities, linked urban spatial expansion to the socio-economic characters in a territory,...

Water buyback is an increasingly accepted policy to restore environmental flows threatened by overallocation. Purchase tenders compensate irrigators who decide to surrender (part of) their right to withdraw water, provided effective use exists. A major concern in water buyback involves the extent of...

Professor Todd Sandler presents an eclectic review of the scientific study of terrorism that views all agents as rational decision makers.  The lecture begins with a discussion of terrorist event databases that are used by researchers to test key theoretical propositions about terrorism...

This seminar has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES under REA grant agreement n° 609642 and is based on a paper co-authored by Christoph Böhringer, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr and...

Fondato nel 2012 dal Segretario delle Nazioni Unite Ban-Ki Moon, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network ha il compito di mobilitare il mondo della ricerca e dell’innovazione per la promozione di soluzioni concrete sulle diverse problematiche di sviluppo sostenibile, inclusa la promozione dei...

The internationalization of companies has become a must in recent years, interpreted as a kind of surviving strategy for them. The entrance into new foreign markets represents a response to the economic and financial crisis as well as to the saturation degree of...

A need for low-carbon world has added a new challenging dimension for the long-term energy scenarios development. In addition to the traditional factors like technological progress, demographic, economic, political and institutional considerations, there is another aspect of the modern energy forecasts related to...

In December 2015, world leaders reached a historic climate agreement at COP21 in Paris, sending a clear signal to governments and businesses to accelerate their efforts to decarbonize their economies, supply chains and business models. Now it’s time to move from diplomacy to...

Con l’introduzione di una norma dedicata nella Legge di Stabilità 2016, l’Italia diventa il secondo Paese al mondo, dopo gli Stati Uniti, a dare forma legale alle Società Benefit, “società che nell'esercizio di una attività economica, oltre allo scopo di dividerne gli...

Co-Authors: Vona Francesco (OFCE SciencesPo), Marin Giovanni (Ceris-CNR and OFCE SciencesPo) and Davide Consoli (INGENIO) This paper is the first to provide comprehensive evidence of green employment dynamics for a panel of US metro and non-metro areas over the period 2006-2014. We propose...

FEEM is an Official Partner of the DYNAMIX project After 3.5 years of intensive research and analysis, the two sister projects DYNAMIX and POLFREE projects, both funded by the European Commission FP7 program, will come to a close in March 2016. Therefore, it...

The Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE), is glad to announce its Fourth Annual Conference, to be held at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna from 11 to 12 February 2016. The conference full programme is available at...

The Carmen-Pajonal-Machona lagoon system (CPM) is located along Mexico Gulf in the State of Tabasco. It is a low-depth coastal wetland which is separated from the ocean by a fragile sand bar. It communicates with the sea through two inlets and hosts important...

The presentation is based on a paper co-authores by Loic Berger and Valentina Bosetti. This paper reports the results of an experiment jointly characterizing risk and model uncertainty aversion. Based on a general framework developed in Marinacci (2015), we explore subjects’ attitudes towards...

Climate change is expected to increase risks to businesses, infrastructure, assets and economies. Understanding how to involve the private sector in responding to these risks – or encouraging them to take advantage of the new business opportunities that may arise from changing climate...

The Policy Seminar will focus on the recent UNFCCC Conference of Parties, COP21, concluded in Paris on December 12 with the adoption of the Paris Agreement. The new global climate deal is expected to enter into force in 2020 after the second commitment...

Standard cost-benefit analysis is inadequate for large scale social risks (natural disasters, technological accidents, terrorism) because it rests on the unrealistic assumption of perfect risk sharing. As a consequence, it focuses only on the aggregate effects of the risk, while it neglects both...

Alps are considered “the Water towers of Europe”: a significant part of surface and groundwater outflows are directly or indirectly depending on the water accumulated in snow, glaciers and permafrost. This inestimable function is threatened by climate change. Changing patterns of rain and...

On December 15 and 16, 2015, FEEM will organize in Milan the fourth edition of the annual FEEM "Gas Talks”. FEEM "Gas Talks" are closed-door brainstorming meetings gathering high level international experts from the academia, international organizations and industry in order to discuss...

The economics of climate change involves a vast array of uncertainties, complicating both the analysis and development of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks...

We live in a century of urbanisation. Millions have moved to cities in the last decades, another 2.7 billion will join till 2050 - creating new urban powerhouses, transforming large cities to megacities and changing villages to world known centres. Cities provide higher...

The XXI Conference of the Parties (COP 21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015. Aim of the conference is to deliver a new universal climate change agreement that keeps a global temperature...

On November 30th, 2015, from 12.30, the Milan offices of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei will host the presentation of the book: “Il clima che cambia. Non solo un problema ambientale“, of Carlo Carraro and Alessandra Mazzai, edited by Il Mulino. The global average...

The average planet temperatures have been rising for over one hundred years. This is the reason why we are increasingly facing the disastrous effects caused by extreme meteorological and climatic events, such as heat waves, torrential rains, hurricanes or unusually severe or...

Since the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report, adaptation has received increased attention by both the scientific and the policy communities. Its fundamental role in climate policy is now on an equal footing with mitigation and it will be one of the “pillars” of...

The aim of the ECONADAPT project, funded by the EC DG Research and undertaken by a pan-European consortium led by the University of Bath, is to provide user-orientated methodologies and evidence relating to economic appraisal criteria to inform the choice of climate change adaptation actions using analysis that...

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) that will be held in December represents a key step in the transition toward a low carbon world economy. The Conference is attracting much attention and the expectations are very high. Many countries, both developed and...

Authors: Andrea Bastianin, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera We develop a structural Vector Autoregressive model to study the economic impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on coffee production, export and price in Colombia. The econometric model relies on a recursive identification scheme consistent...

Rome 2015 – Science Symposium on Climate will focus on the multidisciplinary dimension of Climate Sciences in order to address the advances in Climate Sciences, Adaptation and Climate Impacts, Mitigation Strategies. The event aims to: Highlight the most relevant results achieved by the...

The IAMC 8th Annual Meeting will be held from November 16, 2015 through the morning of November 18, 2015 in Potsdam, Germany. The main meeting will be conducted over the first two full days, and there will be an additional half-day on the...

The  photographic exhibition ”FRANCO FONTANA ARCHITECTURAL ABSTRACTIONS. Photographs of Expo Milano 2015" will be inaugurated with a press conference at FEEM’s headquarters in Milan on Monday, November 9, 2015 at 12.00 noon (opening hour for press accreditation). The exhibition will be open...

California in now in its fourth year of drought, and the governor has declared a State of Emergency (http://ca.gov/drought/). The State is the largest, most dynamic and most innovative economy in the US. This webinar will outline how economists assess water scarcity, and...

JPI Climate was launched in 2011 and now involves 14 European countries which are committed to coordinating their activities in the field of climate research. JPI Climate provides a platform for climate knowledge and decision support services for societal innovation. Activities are focussed...

One factor that makes climate change mitigation difficult is its long-term horizon. Here we frame this social dilemma as a "public bad" that captures the key features of the problem and in particular its dynamic externality. In a theory-based experimental platform, we compare...

We can classify future problems and their contingencies into 3 level of increasing unawareness: White Swans, Grey Swans and Black Swans (Taleb 2007). White Swans are problems with known sets of probable outcomes and contingencies (i.e. complete awareness). Grey Swans are problems that...

The webinar aims at presenting the DYNAMIX results on policy mix assessment for resource efficiency (DYNAMIX project will end in March 2016), generating a discussion around challenges and experiences on policy implementation within the participants, and finally link the results to the current...

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) is a collaborative global research initiative convened under the auspices of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). Its goal is to understand how individual countries can transition...

Under the patronage of Best Practices across the World to grow Food and Protect Water Resources On Friday 23rd October, 2015 at 6:30 pm, ICCG – International Center for Climate Governance will officially award the winner of the Best Climate Practices Contest 2015...

This session introduces decision making analysis for urban climate resilience and water related issues with particular focus on multi criteria analysis (MCA) approach. This approach has been widely used in environmental and climate change assessment and decision making on prioritizing different policies, actions,...

The aim of the FEEM and CMCC 4th Convention on "Climate Change and Sustainable Development Economics" is to present the latest research carried out at FEEM and CMCC on climate change and sustainable development economics. Recent papers dealing with these topics will be...

The European Union is devoting consideral effort to create a single EU gas market through a series of Directives and regulations. In order to assess whether the new regulatory framework has been successful so far, we investigate the convergence of prices paid by...

This seminar is based on a paper co-authored by Elena Verdolini and Michele Maurizio Malpede. The term "rebound effect" indicates a reduction in the expected gains associated with increases the energy efficiency due to behavioural or other systemic responses. Specifically, increased energy efficiency...

The event will allow Expo 2015 visitors to experience first-hand the kind of complex issues that policy makers are likely to face in the upcoming years to deal with the negative environmental impacts from food production and consumption (for example: should meat consumption...

The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) is pleased to award the winner of the ICCG’s 2014 Climate Think Tank Award with a special event at FEEM premises in Milan. On October 5th at 12:00 p.m., Prof. Carlo Carraro, Coordinator of FEEM’s CCSD...

Visions for urban post – carbon futures have a great potential in triggering urban transitions. We have analysed the results from an exercise of vision building undertaken in eight European cities, where visions were used as a tool helping the transition towards a...

On October 1-3, ISPI and the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania - in partnership with FEEM - will organize the 2nd Global Think Tank Summit and 3rd European Think Tank Summit in Milan at Palazzo Clerici, ISPI...

ENTRACTE is hosting a final policy conference in Brussels on Friday, September 25th of 2015. An excellent line-up of internationally recognised leaders in climate policy and climate research have been assembled to discuss the policy insights generated from this research project. The event...

Within the framework of Climate Week New York City, France Stratégie and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei jointly organise a high level event gathering top-level experts and policymakers in the fields of climate change, finance, and monetary policy, to discuss the possible contributions of...

Climate Week NYC is an annual summit boasting high-level meetings between the world’s leading businesses and governments and an exciting array of public-facing events, all focused on advancing a 'clean industrial revolution'. This side event presents and discusses approaches and methodologies to measure,...

The Green Bonds market tripled in size in 2014. The only aspect outpacing this growth has been the increase in reports, publicity and research around the market and how it may help scale up climate finance. CPI has been conducting internal analysis over...

The VI edition of the Summer School in Euro Mediterranean Strategies on “Sustainable Thinking & Sustainable Tourism” will be held from September 23 to 26 in Maratea (PZ). The Summer School is promoted by FEEM – Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation and  IASEM...

This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become...

The conference takes a broad interest in the area of resource management, development and conservation, including but not limited to: the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services in economic development, plant genetic resources and food security issues, deforestation and development, fisheries and institutional...

Industrial economies have undergone multiple transitions in their dominant energy input: from biomass to coal, then from coal to oil, and now perhaps from oil to natural gas. I develop a setting in which specialized machines must be used to convert different types...

At the global level, climate and socio-economic changes determine the patterns of the allocation and trade of resources in all markets. Top-Down computable general equilibrium  (CGE) models, using only economics factors of production (capital and labour mostly) and ignoring natural resources constraints, look...

The 2015 FEEM Award will be presented at the 30th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association at the University of Mannheim on Wednesday August 26, 2015, before the Presidential Address.   *** Find out more about the Congress...

This paper presents an application of a model-based framework specifically conceived to assess future sustainability over time, at country and macro-regional level, across scenarios. The methodology relies upon a multi-step procedure. First, a macro-economic model is extended, tailored and run to keep track...

#EverydayClimateChange is an exhibition by James Whitlow Delano and Matilde Gattoni which presents the works of photographers from all continents. The exhibition offers a new perspective on climate change, exposing its important role for food security and development. On July 28, 2015 at...

Multiple criteria decision analysis aims at representing the preferences of a decision maker over a set of alternatives; his final decision is hence the result of an aggregation process based on his preferences and the criteria set. Traditional aggregator tools such as the...

The paper analyzes to which extent risk and equity preferences affect society's willingness to pay to eliminate a social risk, which is defined as a global risk that has differentiated impacts across subgroups of the population. Three approaches to equity are considered: utilitarianism;...

So far, climate policy is mostly seen as causing a reduction in consumption and growth. However, it is possible to design mitigation and adaptation policy in a way that benefits macroeconomic conditions such as GDP growth, employment, public budgets balance, etc. This session...

Conclusions and recommendations of the Social Enterprise World Forum 2015 The sustainability of the private sector and of the whole social system requires companies and non-profit organizations to collaborate in a new strategic way able to deliver social and market innovation. How could...

This seminar is based on a paper co-authored by Malcolm N. Mistry, Enrica De Cian and Ian Sue Wing. There is widespread concern that trends and variability in weather induced by climate change will detrimentally affect global agricultural productivity and food supplies. Reliable...

The 2015 Summer School will take place from June the 28th to July the 4th at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The topic covered by the 2015 Summer School...

As a result of the global economic downturn, national budget deficits have been growing as a percent of GDP and public spending for infrastructure development has been reduced. Some economists argue that public investment in new energy technologies might be part of the...

2015 Climate Cinema is a series of events taking place in five parts from February to June 2015. Each session will show a screening of one to two short films dealing with climate change. These films come from past editions of Think Forward...

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Five years remain for Europe to reach its 2020 objectives. Fondazione Sodalitas is hosting "LAST CALL TO EUROPE 2020. The role of Enterprises for a Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Europe" (19 June 2015, Milano Expo site), an International Conference focused on enhancing enterprises’...

WTO agreements discipline the use of subsidies, particularly for upstream manufacturing or exports. Unlike tariff rules, the Subsidies Code lacks exceptions for transboundary externalities like human health or resource conservation, including those related to combatting global climate change. Yet support policies for green...

FEEM, in collaboration with Associazione Alumni Accenture, Fondazione Italiana Accenture and b-Venture, has promoted the training workshop “Share in action”. The workshop is part of a wider initiative, a contest (closed last 25 May) aimed at promoting, developing and implementing innovative collaborative projects...

In the last decade the equilibriums of Latin America seem profoundly changed: the US does not have the important weight that held in the ‘90 for the subcontinent, at the same time the region grows with a balance of trade which is rebalanced...

This seminar is based on a work co-authored by Warwick McKibbin, Adele Morris and Peter Wilcoxen. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun regulating existing stationary sources of greenhouse gases (GHG) using its authority under the Clean Air Act (the Act)....

Climate change is affecting temperatures and precipitation across Europe. However, the observed and projected changes differ across seasons and regions. Further differentiation is necessary between mean water availability and extremes, such as droughts, heavy precipitation and floods. For example, some European regions may...

Coal is China's most important energy commodity. It accounts for the majority of energy consumption, and China produces and consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined.  Such levels of coal production raise economic activity, but at the same...

Between June and December 2014, the price of crude oil has fallen by nearly 50%, which represents one of the most dramatic declines in recent history. Within the same period, the average price reduction of coal, natural gas, agricultural commodities in general, metals,...

Geothermal energy holds significant promises for the low carbon energy systems of developing countries. As a renewable electricity source with the ability to both meet base load power demand and backstop fluctuating supply from other renewable sources, it can be a vital component...

The 34th edition of the International Energy Workshop (IEW) will be hosted by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi, on June 03–05, 2015. The IEW is one of the leading conferences for the international energy modeling research community. In a...

2015 Climate Cinema is a series of events taking place in five parts from February to June 2015. Each session will show a screening of one to two short films dealing with climate change. These films come from past editions of Think Forward...

The extraction and processing of unconventional oil is more energy intensive and has larger negative environmental impacts than the extraction of conventional oil. The European Union (EU) estimates that oil sands lead to 22% more emissions than conventional oil. The EU is very...

This seminar is based on a book edited by Raffaello Cervigni, Rikard Liden, Jim Neumann, and Kenneth Strzepek, published in the World Bank series “Africa Development Forum”. To sustain Africa’s growth, and accelerate the eradication of extreme poverty, investment in infrastructure is fundamental....

The goal of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence on co-volatility of commodities. For this purpose we conduct a two steps analysis. First, we use a Dynamic Conditional Correlation GARCH (DCC-GARCH) model of Engle (2002) to examine the time-varying conditional...

The continuous and progressive transformations related to global warming in the Arctic are posing new challenges which require appropriate reflection as well as innovative and efficient solutions. The melting of the Arctic ice started over 60 years ago, but its quick acceleration in...

The European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA) 2015 is an initiative of a number of major European research projects and other stakeholders. The conference will cover a broad range of issues related to climate change adaptation and follows international adaptation conferences in Australia...

On May 11, 2015 Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) and Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), together with the French Embassy in Italy, are organizing the international conference "Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security" under the patronage...

Meeting human aspirations in an increasingly resource limited world and in the perspective of a changing climate, requires that resources are used prudently and equitably. Many low income countries are currently undergoing rapid economic development commonly fuelled by two processes: agricultural transformation and...

The relationship between climate change and migration has been poorly understood in the literature and it deserves the attention of scientific community (Stern, 2013; Licker and Oppenheimer, 2013). This work wants to be an additional contribution to the existing literature. The aim is...

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored by Carlo Cambini (Politecnico di Torino), Elena Fumagalli (DIG_Politecnico di MIlano, IEFE-Bocconi University) and Laura Rondi (DIGEP-Politecnico di Torino, CERIS-CNR-Moncalieri-Torino). This paper focus on output-based regulation and empirically investigates the effect of rewards and penalties...

Since 1983, the Millennium Institute (MI) has been engaged in the development of capacity for sustainable development planning within governments, planning institutions, academia, the private sector, and international organizations. Over the last 20 years MI has led the development of simulation models for...

Authors: Pietro Battiston - Istituto Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy; Jaimie Bleck - University of Notre Dame, IN, US; Jacopo Bonan - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Lab Expo, Fondazione Feltrinelli, Italy; Philippe LeMay-Boucher - Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK; Stefano Pareglio - Università...

2015 Climate Cinema is a series of events taking place in five parts from February to June 2015. Each session will show a screening of one to two short films dealing with climate change. These films come from past editions of Think Forward...

Concerns about water scarcity in arid countries focus on irrigation, the most water-demanding sector worldwide. Irrigation is often seen as wasteful and inefficient. In fact, irrigation efficiency can be as low as 40-50 percent, leading to misuse of this finite and precious resource....

As an official partner of the DYNAMIX Project on "DYNAmic policy MIXes for absolute decoupling of environmental impact of EU resource use from economic growth”, FEEM is pleased to announce the Joint DYNAMIX/POLFREE Policy Platform on “An ambitious Circular Economy Package for Europe:...

This seminar is based on a work co-authored by Elisa Delpiazzo, Gabriele Standardi and Ramiro Parrado. In a background of a financial crisis along with high levels of indebtedness and aging population, high unemployment levels and the need for fiscal outlays for unemployment...

FEEM started investigating the relationship between companies and their stakeholders in the early 1990s, well before corporate social responsibility (CSR) became one of the buzzwords in the business sphere. In this early stage, FEEM developed groundbreaking methods to assess the environmental and social...

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored by Valentina De Marchi, Roberto Grandinetti and James J. Cordeiro. In recent years, the heightened importance of the environmental agenda has increasingly placed environmental innovations (EI) in the forefront of policy maker and corporate action....

2015 Climate Cinema is a series of events taking place in five parts from February to June 2015. Each session will show a screening of one to two short films dealing with climate change. These films come from past editions of Think Forward...

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, on behalf of the Coalition Theory Network, is honoured to host the 20th Coalition Theory Network Workshop, to be held in Venice, Italy, on 19-20 March 2015.   The Coalition Theory Network (CTN) is an association of eight high-level scientific...

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on environmental concerns and well-being in Germany and other industrialized countries, more than 5,000 miles distant. While we do not find evidence that subjective well-being was significantly affected—not in Germany, Switzerland, or the UK—the disaster...

Photosynthesis is a water-intensive biochemical process. As part of the photosynthetic process, plants and surfaces release water into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration. The greater the biomass and crop yields, the greater the volume of water undergoing evapotranspiration. To conserve water, we need to...

The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance is a new, global initiative that draws on expertise from around the world to design and pilot the next generation of cutting edge climate finance instruments. Based on proposals from around the world, The Lab identified...

Environmental policies address wellbeing and sustainability objectives, affecting firm and household behaviour. A newly developed, cross-country composite proxy of environmental policy stringency (EPS) shows that stringency has been increasing across OECD countries over the past two decades. However, the tightening environmental policies have...

2015 Climate Cinema is a series of events taking place in five parts from February to June 2015. Each session will show a screening of one to two short films dealing with climate change. These films come from past editions of Think Forward...

The Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE) is glad to announce its Third Conference, to be held at the Department of Economics and  Management of the University of Padua from 20 to 21 February 2015. The 2015 conference will maintain a...

This paper investigates the determinants through which ownership of energy infrastructures for the transmission of electricity and gas affects the type and level of investment. In particular we examine whether the investment propensity of a sample of European energy network companies from 2004...

A workshop hosted by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) Purpose of the workshop The completion of the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC provides a good opportunity to reflect on lessons learned and discuss options for future...

Climate policy-making in today's world is complex. Transaction and enforcement costs are significant and affect the effectiveness and efficiency of policy instruments. Developments in related policy fields, such as energy policy, may influence the performance of climate policy instruments, while path dependency could...

NECST (A New Energy Culture: Sustainability and Territories) is a strategic partnership funded by the European Commission Erasmus Plus Programme. NECST proposes an educational experience based on the collaboration between students from different geographic and social environments. The project is based on the...

Southeast Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions of the World to the impacts of climate change. At the same time, the region is also following a trajectory that could make it a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the future....

As clearly indicated by the recent IPCC report (IPCC, 2014) the Earth’s climate is warming at an unprecedented rate and this warming will likely lead to a rapid rise in sea level. The accelerated sea level rise, aggravated by more frequent extreme events,...

Climate change negotiations in the framework of the UNFCCC are expected to lead to the adoption of an international agreement at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties in Paris at the end of 2015. The future agreement should combine a...

The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) is holding its Third Annual Conference on the theme of "Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact". The conference, hosted in partnership with the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, The Energy and...

Sea levels are rising as a result of climate change and thereby amplifying the risk of tidal and storm flooding in coastal communities. Flooding is problematic, leading to many types of damages, particularly destruction or degradation of property due to contact with floodwater....

As an official partner of the ADVANCE Project on "Advanced Model Development and Validation for Improved Analysis of Costs and Impacts of Mitigation Policies”, FEEM is pleased to announce the Expert Workshop on "Innovation in relation to building energy demand in IAMs" ....

This seminar is based on a paper co-authored by Xueqin Cui (Renmin University of China), Laurent Drouet (FEEM and CMCC) and Giacomo Marangoni, (FEEM and CMCC). A limited quota of future cumulative global CO2 emissions is associated with a certain climate stabilization target....

Current research on world water resources and use shows that fundamental topics such as demographic trends, energy development and needs, water-energy nexus, climate change, and water geostrategic challenges are interconnected. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Politecnico di Milano and Università...

The paper presented in this seminar is co-authored by Ian Sue Wing and Shouro Dasgupta. Estimates of flu-associated deaths in the United States range from around 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 with direct medical costs estimated at over $10 billion. Previous...

This paper is co-authored by Doruk Iris, Sogang University, Jungmin Lee, Sogang University and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Alessandro Tavoni, London School of Economics, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment Provision of global public goods, such as...

Dopo gli ultimi grandi teorici, da Keynes a Sraffa, la teoria economica sembra essersi irrigidita in un’Ortodossia che pochi vogliono mettere in questione. Da una parte si applicano tecniche di analisi sempre più sofisticate, dall’altra si dà per scontato che l’èra delle grandi...

The Think Forward Film Festival was established in Venice in 2011, with the aim to study, discuss, and disseminate climate change as well as the issues related to energy efficiency and renewable energy through both short and feature films. The Think Forward Film...

While ‘recovery from waste’ is becoming a popular expression, in some old industrialisation Countries it remains a highly controversial and paralyzing issue. This seminar explores why moving from mentioning the problem to its solutions requires the description of an extended and complex system:...

This brief explains CPI’s understanding and definition of key climate finance terms and the reasons for these definitions to inform the debate and build a common understanding among stakeholders. Policy makers, investors, financial intermediaries and analysts do not always have the same understanding...

Una serata ricca di filmati dall'ultima edizione del “Think Forward Festival”, per intravedere e immaginare il futuro della Terra. Immaginare un futuro con tutte le sue complesse incognite, tenebrose o illuminanti: vedere da vicino la descrizione di una situazione ambientale purtroppo sempre più...

Il 28 novembre 2014, Eni e Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei presentano a Milano, presso la sala congressi del Touring Club Italiano, un nuovo progetto di turismo didattico rivolto a tutte le scuole di ogni ordine e grado interessate ad approfondire le tematiche legate...

Recent heating and reliability of measurements. The heat balance of the surface of the earth, radiation thermal properties, heat propagation and absorption. Why should we worry? Are we the cause? Past and future of atmospheric CO2. Should we rewrite the 10 commandments?...

The aim of this Convention is to present the latest research carried out at FEEM and CMCC on climate change and sustainable development economics. Recent papers dealing with these topics will be presented by FEEM and CMCC’s researchers, together with key note speeches...

On November 20 and 21, 2014, FEEM will organize in Milan the third edition of the annual FEEM "Gas Talks”. FEEM "Gas Talks" are closed-door brainstorming meetings gathering high level international experts from the academia, international organizations and industry in order to discuss...

The seminar is based on a paper co-authored by Anna Cretì - Paris Dauphine and Ecole Polytechnique, Marc Joëts - Ipag Business School and EconomiX Cnrs and Federico Pontoni - IEFE, Università Bocconi. In the coming years, France will renew hydroelectric concessions through...

La discussione muoverà dalle seguenti domande: Quanto il “valore sociale” dell’investimento Sri è oggi comprensibile e condiviso? Quanto è compreso e condiviso anche all’interno degli operatori? Quanto riesce a incidere effettivamente nella scelta di investimento? Quanto è valorizzato nelle scelte di investimento? A...

This paper is co-authored by Renaud Foucarty and Cheng Wan. This paper studies strategic decentralization in the provision of global public goods. It is well known that cooperation between countries can improve total provision. However, we show that a coalition, with the aim...

City research has a tradition since more than 100 years. While the most of past city assessments are case studies focusing on specific features or spatial sub-entities of urban systems there is an increasing demand to identify gross effects of agglomerations. Looking on...

The work presented in this seminar is co-authored by Matija Kovacic (Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice) and Claudio Zoli (Department of Economics, University of Verona). Ethnic heterogeneity can potentially be related to the occurrence of conflicts with long-lasting economic effects....

Due to a changing climate and an increasing world population exposed to natural hazards and extreme weather events, the urge to develop models to assess the economic losses of disasters has increased tremendously. In this urge, not just a large amount of models...

In occasione del “Salone della CSR e dell’Innovazione Sociale” che si terrà a Milano presso l’Università Bocconi il 7 e 8 ottobre 2014, e a sei mesi dall’avvio del progetto Sharexpo (www.sharexpo.it), FEEM – in collaborazione con Collaboriamo, Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Modacult-Catholic University...

In the past three editions of the Forum we have analysed the evolution of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and of the role of multinational corporations (MCNs) in a global economy. The Ninth Politeia Forum (December 2012), in particular, explored...

REDD+ is a good start for reducing the emissions of carbon from land, but there are more ambitious management practices that might be needed to stabilize the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere almost immediately. Stopping deforestation and degradation (1 PgC/yr), letting forests...

The conference, entitled "Climate Change: Scenarios, Impacts and Policy" aims to involve scientists, researchers and policy makers, whose activities are focused on different aspects of climate change, its impacts and related policies. SCOPE Develop a platform for sharing and discussing between the different...

Are you ready to experience an honest-to-goodness modern treasure hunt? ICCG, as part of Venetonight 2014 (European Researchers’ Night) and in collaboration with Play the City (www.playthecity.it), is organizing an exciting treasure hunt with researchers in Venice. You'll have to solve a...

The contemporary water abstraction licence (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges posed by human-induced climate and global environmental changes. To cope with mounting water stress risk, the reformed WAL policy policies should i) foster sustainable...

This conference aims at advancing the discussion about international climate policy making. The latest insights from a research project (LIMITS) which has quantified the consequences of implementing climate policies in the major economies will be presented and discussed with a panel of high...

After two 'lost decades' from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Africa’s economic growth has resumed in the last twenty years. In the last decade in particular (i.e. between 2003-2014), GDP growth in the region has averaged 5.1%, making it the second fastest-growing region...

The energy sector is the main responsible of GhG emissions and is undergoing a deep change in its technology paradigm, both in industrialised and developing countries. The generating mix of the new power stations is more and more oriented to renewable sources as...

The 16th Annual BIOECON Conference will be of interest to both researchers and policy makers working on issues broadly in the area of biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainable development and natural capital, in both developed and developing countries. The conference takes a broad interest...

The seminar is based on a work co-authored by Ivan Faiella and Luciano Lavecchia, Bank of Italy. Over the last 15 years, Italian households have experienced a remarkable increase in gas and electricity prices (+80% and + 60% respectively). As a consequence, the...

Access to modern energy services is fundamental to development. It is generally agreed that nations need to supply their citizens with a basic level of access to modern energy to improve their quality of life. The Sustainable Energy for all (SE4ALL) goals of...

While urban sustainability has very pragmatic local roots, its relevance has elevated to the highest levels exemplified by the new UN special envoy for cities, Michael Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the international climate negotiations at the UNFCCC develop their own secondary approach avoiding the stall-mate...

In spite of its minor and decreasing share in EU GDP agriculture still plays a fundamental and strategic role in many areas of the economy. This is why the EU has put much effort during the last decades in guaranteeing a stable agricultural...

The 2014 FEEM Award will be conferred for the sixth year during the 29th annual congress of the European Economic Association (EEA) at the Toulouse School of Economics in France. The FEEM award will be presented on the evening of Thursday August 28,...

The paper formalizes Chamberlin's idea that monopoly power depends on the heterogeneity of taste of customers. I do so by demonstrating that elasticity of substitution between goods in the Dixit-Stiglitz framework can be represented as a simple linear function of taste heterogeneity measure....

This paper is co-authored by Francesco Bosello and Ramiro Parrado. In this paper we address one specific criticism that can be raised against the economic climate change impact assessments conducted with CGE models: that of overly optimistic assumptions on the ability of markets...

Energy access - the so-called ‘Missed Millennium Development Goal’, is considered a fundamental driver of economic and social development. It is a key condition to guarantee access to clean water, sanitation, schooling and business in developing countries. In the words of UN...

Concentrated solar power (CSP) is a promising energy technology with zero or low-carbon emissions. It converts solar energy into heat energy, stores it, and uses it to generate electrical power around the clock when it is most needed. To improve knowledge on effective...

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan's Tohoku region. The quake shook the ground as far away as western Japan and lasted for several minutes. A half hour later, a tsunami...

The 2014 Summer School will take place from July the 6th to July the 12th at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The topic covered by the 2014 Summer School...

A poorly understood area of development and conservation planning is the multi-faceted role that species and ecosystems play in the lives of rural and coastal populations, particularly in developing countries.  Many indigenous peoples and local communities in rural, coastal and remote regions depend...

Nation-building in North Africa is a difficult and challenging process brought to light also by the transition processes ongoing in large part of the region. Not only many cultural, social and political variables are at stake but it is also hard to predict...

The Mediterranean basin is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world due to the impacts of climate change interrelated consequences, its precarious socio-economic conditions, and its fragile political systems. In parallel, the energy scenario in the region is changing rapidly, with...

The 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, from June 28 to July 2, 2014. After Venice (1998), Monterey (2002), Kyoto (2006), and Montréal (2010), the profession will convene in this unique World Heritage city...

This seminar is based on a joint paper by Francesco Nicolli and Francesco Vona. The pioneering role of Germany and Europe in environmental policy is justified by the existence of first mover advantages, i.e. with economic benefits due to an early adoption especially...

This research presents how to assess and monitor sustainability of the no-till agricultural practice under the impact of climate change.  The opportunity is given by the ACLIMAS project (EropeAid-SWIM), a demonstration project, which aims to disseminate the relevance of no-till agricultural practices to...

Within the activities of the 2014 art night in Venice, ICCG in collaboration with Think Forward Film Festival presents a selection of short films on climate change and the melting of the Arctic ice: SVANTE AND CLIMATE CHANGE, directed by Mattias Gordon (3’51”)...

This presentation is based on a work co-authored by Laura Bonzanigo & Nidhi Kalra (2014). Countries invest billions of dollars annually in long-term projects. Yet deep uncertainties pose formidable challenges to making near-term decisions that make long-term sense. Methods that identify robust decisions...

Sustainable growth and competitiveness are fundamental goals that contemporary societies and organizations are urged to achieve in the short and long term. The growing disparities across societies and the recent financial crisis have led many analysts and observers to describe the global...

"Europe and Global Challenges" is the 3rd Workshop of the Project on: "Europe’s Global Linkages and the Impact of the Financial Crisis: Policies for Sustainable Trade, Capital Flows, and Migration" - GLOBAL LINKAGES. About the project The successful integration into global markets is...

This one-day conference will present and discuss the findings of a major three-year collaborative research project involving eleven partners located in eight EU members states, led by the Toulouse School of Economics. Global IQ – Impacts Quantification of Global Changes – provides new,...

The decline of the Italian economy over the last two decades is widely documented. During this period, the world economy has become highly integrated, and foreign outsourcing has become a standard practice for firms. While trade theory predicts benefits from the internationalization of...

Over the last ten years China has achieved economic supremacy in the Asian region and has gained a pivotal role in understanding ongoing worldwide geostrategic scenarios. The many economic analyses that have investigated its rising hegemony have however failed to address the dynamics...

Achieving international agreements on climate change and other global environmental problems pose classic challenges in dealing with public goods and common pool resources, but ones of unsurpassed importance for the future of humanity. How can we achieve cooperation at the international level in...

This presentation is based on a paper co-authored by Andrea Bigano and Anna Alberini. We evaluate incentives for residential energy upgrades in Italy using data from an original survey of Italian homeowners. In this paper, attention is restricted to heating system replacements, and...

The 2014 FEEM International Workshop on “Oil and Commodity Price Dynamics” is intimately related to the oil conferences organized by the FEEM research programme “Energy: Resources and Markets” in the last two years, namely the 2012 Conference on “Financial Speculation in the Oil...

Energy Research Institute (ERI/NDRC), which was established in 1980, is a national research organization conducting comprehensive studies on China's energy issues. ERI's research mainly focuses on the fields of energy economics, energy efficiency, energy environment & climate change and renewable energy. In recent...

Il workshop “Parchi e sviluppo. I parchi come luogo di intreccio tra green economy e green society” è dedicato al tema della valorizzazione e della promozione dei parchi come possibili motori di uno sviluppo locale capace di coniugare crescita economica, tutela dei beni...

Globalisation has marked a change in the way Latin America has approached welfare issues. Since the 1980s the adoption of economic policies inspired by neo-liberalism have brought about economic growth as well as an increase in the informal job sector and growing urbanization....

This presentation is based on a work co-authored with Ulrike Kornek and Kai Lessman. To study the stability of coalitions in the standard game theoretic model of international environmental agreements, two alternative concepts are used: potential internal stability (PIS) and core stability (CS)....

Recent debates concerning the ethical implications of climate change have concentrated on questions of fairness with respect to the distribution of burdens and shares to meet the challenges of climate changes. The concept of sustainability has been proclaimed specifically as a commitment to...

This paper investigates opinion dynamics and social influence in directed communication networks. We study the properties of a generalized boundedly rational model of opinion formation in which individuals aggregate the information they receive by using weights that are a function of their neighbors'...

This paper examines the intergenerational welfare economics of risk. It characterizes a family of criteria that avoid some serious drawbacks of expected utilitarianism, such as the inability to disentangle risk aversion and inequality aversion, the lack of ethical considerations for learning, and Weitzman's...

We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth. Optimal policies involve...

The Euro-Mediterranean Center on climate change (CMCC) and theInternational Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) are pleased to announce the second edition of their joint Summer School on Adaptation Policies and Practices in the Mediterranean Basin (MedAdapt) for postgraduate students. The aim of the...

The recent development of the Ukrainian crisis has unveiled a series of long-neglected problems that today emerge dramatically. The complex current scenario and the difficulties in recomposing the crisis at diplomatic level show the inadequacy of EU and North American foreign policies and...

Uncertainty is a key component of climate change, characterizing both the science and the human response of a changing climate. Understanding the problem of climate change and formulating a set of policy responses will thus need to account for the key uncertainties at...

The Workshop on “Public-Private Partnerships: a focus on Energy Infrastructures and Sustainable Growth” organized by the International Center for Climate Governance and Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in collaboration with CAREFIN and CRIOS of Bocconi University aims at shedding light on future trends, opportunities...

Using the example of the UK and taking account of ongoing climate change, we develop spatially explicit models of the relationship between land use and the production of both market priced agricultural outputs and various non-market goods including emissions and sequestration of greenhouse...

Cities have a role in reducing the impacts on human health and well-being.  In recent years, there has been a growing call for cities to plan for healthy environments, especially in the context of climate change as the research provides concrete evidence on...

This seminar is based on a joint paper by Francesco Nicolli and Francesco Vona We analyse the impact of market liberalisation on renewable energy policies in OECD countries. To this end, we first develop an aggregated indicator of renewable energy policies using principal...

How does climate change affect our lives? Between poverty and environment. Lessons learned from a project funded by the European Commission The meeting is part of a project funded by the European Commission (Thematic Programme for Environment and Sustainable Management of Natural...

Following on the publication of the first part of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Groups II and III are soon going to be released. In this framework, the...

Indonesia’s desire to drive economic growth and reduce climate risk is reflected in the sweeping policy reforms it has introduced in recent years to meet targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Public policy and international and domestic public finance will play a crucial...

We study how leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with...

Happiness is a fundamental societal metric. Normally it is measured through self-reported answers to questionnaires which do not necessarily reflect experienced utility of respondents. In this paper, we examine instead messages posted on the social networking service Twitter, investigating idiosyncratic shocks of happiness....

Tarek Heggy, one of the most influential and nonconformist voices of the Middle-East intellectual arena, will offer a cross-cutting overview of the main historic, political and sociological dynamics underpinning Islamic society, shedding light into current attempts to reconcile islamism with modernity, democracy, human...

We analyze participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs) in a dynamic game where countries pollute and invest in green technologies. If complete contracts are feasible, participants eliminate the hold-up problem associated with their investments; however, most countries prefer to free-ride rather than participate....

The ex ante Impact Asssessment of planned policies has developed as an important part of policy making within the European institutions as well as in Member States. The analysis of expected economic, social and environmental impacts informs the decision making. Collecting relevant and...

Following on the publication of the first part of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Groups II and III are soon going to be released. In this framework, the...

This talk presents the long-term global energy technology diffusion patterns required to reach a stringent climate change target. If for example the maximum average atmospheric temperature increase is to be limited to 2°C, total CO2 emissions have to be reduced massively, so as...

In many economic decisional problems, agents confront the choice of how much uncertainty to face, solving a trade-off between (average) profitability and risk, like in a portfolio problem. For example, a government choosing between two economic policies in order to attain some given...

Social well-being is intrinsically multidimensional. Welfare indices attempting to reduce this complexity to a unique scalar measure abound in many areas of economics and public policy. Ranking alternatives based on such measures depends, sometimes critically, on how the different dimensions of welfare are...

This seminar is based on a paper co-authored by Heike Auerswald, Carsten Schmidt, Marcel Thum and Gaute Torsvik.                             Many decisions in politics and business are made by teams rather than by single individuals. In contrast, economic models typically assume an individual rational decision...

The “Unconventional Oil Revolution” is a challenging topic that has profound consequences at both economic, technological and geopolitical levels. In particular, the rise of US tight oil production could dramatically impact on US domestic and international energy policy strategies, driving a global spin...

This paper develops a dynamic, global, economy-climate (or integrated-assessment) model with high regional resolution.  The model features a very large number of regions and substantial region-specific detail; rich economic interactions between regions (such as capital flows); and uncertainty about weather and climate.  The...

Much research focuses on energy policy from the perspective of a company, country or bloc perspective but less frequently on the societal perspective. Examining how Energy Productivity and the way in which it is formulated is one example of the ways in which...

In this paper, we examine the term structures of interest rates and risk premia when the random walk of economic growth is affected by some parametric uncertainty. Using a time-consistent expected utility framework, we show that parametric uncertainty does not affect assets prices...

Even under ambitious climate change mitigation scenarios, changes in global and regional temperatures, precipitation and other climate attributes will be unavoidable. These shifts will also trigger changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Energy installations and infrastructure are vulnerable to...

Quando consideriamo gli sprechi di energia, alla maggior parte di noi vengono in mente lo standby degli elettrodomestici o le lampadine a basso consumo. In pochi pensano al cibo come possibile causa di inefficienze. In realtà, il settore agroalimentare consuma e spreca...

L'International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), in collaborazione con l'ufficio Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development (OPC) e Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC), presenta presso la sede FAO di Roma una selezione dei migliori cortometraggi della passata edizione del Think Forward Film Festival....

We are glad to announce the second IAERE Conference, to be organised by the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan from 13 to 14 February 2014. The call for papers is now open and submissions on all...

In this study we investigate the determinant factors, including economic and political ones that impact on crude oil production of OPEC members and non-OPEC producers. To achieve this goal, we develop two multivariate production models: the first one investigates the determinant factors behind...

Understanding where the world stands in relation to its low-carbon and climate-resilient investment goals is a more urgent task than ever. CPI’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2013 identifies global climate finance flows of USD 359 billion in 2012. Key findings include: The...

The 19th CTN workshop will be organized jointly by CORE (Université Catholique de Louvain) and CEREC (Université Saint-Louis) and will be held at the Université Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium on January 30-31, 2014. The workshop will be aimed at providing an avenue for presenting...

The microsimulation models represent a valid approach for introducing the distributional dimension in a CGE framework and allow assessing inequality and poverty changes induced by a shock. The paper describes the development of a non-behavioural microsimulation model and its application to evaluate the...

Social norms have been included in the theory of collective action to overcome difficulties in explaining why commons may perform better when self-regulated. The role of trust has been identified in several contexts of local social dilemmas, but only recently has been extended...

Authors: Sergio Currarini, Carmen Marchiori and Alessandro Tavoni Recent research has shown how explicitly modelling the network structure of social and economic relations can provide significant theoretical insights, as well as account for previously unexplained empirical evidence. Relevant areas of application range from...

Authors: Luisa Gagliardi, Giovanni Marin, Caterina Miriello This paper investigates the link between environment-related innovation and job creation at firm level. Employing Italian data on 4,789 firms, matched with patent records for the period 2001-2008 we test whether “green” innovation, measured using the...

Natural resources often provoke conflicts within societies (Collier, 2007). This presentation analyzes the interaction between institutional quality and natural resources. The first part presents a theoretical investigation of revolutions in resource-dependent countries. Using an experiment, the second part then provides a behavioral perspective...

Historically elevated commodity prices, particularly oil prices, have prompted an ongoing debate over whether high commodity (oil) prices are the result of tight fundamentals or pure financial speculation. While we have observed an increase in the financialization of commodity markets, the weight of...

Sustainable development is possible even in complex contexts, but requires real and concrete commitment not only by the Institutions, but also and increasingly by the private sector. This is the thought of J. D. Sachs, one of the world’s leading experts on economic...

The Think Forward Film Festival was established in Venice in 2011, with the aim to study, discuss, and disseminate climate change as well as the issues related to energy efficiency and renewable energy through both short and feature films. The Think Forward Film...

What makes money essential for the functioning of modern society? Through an experiment, we present evidence for the existence of a relevant behavioral dimension in addition to the standard theoretical arguments. Subjects faced repeated opportunities to help an anonymous counterpart who changed over...

The Environmental Indicators’ Workshop aims to give an overview of the current state of the art of Environmental Indicators, presenting drawbacks of the past approaches, strengths of new methodologies and technical challenges ahead. It is structured into three thematic sessions. The first focuses...

The technological revolution ignited by the extraction of non-conventional oil marks a turning point in internationally consolidated political and economic scenarios. Important geopolitical and macro-micro economic transformations are likely to happen in the near future and must be addressed. In order to tackle...

This paper first shows that firms respond strategically to ENERGY STAR, a voluntary certification program for energy efficient products. In the US appliance market, firms offer products that bunch at the certification requirement, and charge a price premium for certified models. The second...

In the last years it has been increasingly recognised that climate change will adversely affect development and poverty eradication efforts being made by developing countries. Strengthening resilience through adaptation measures is essential to ensure that development achievements are not compromised or negated by...

Il 29 novembre a Milano si fa il punto sulla sharing economy in Italia Cresce la sharing economy in Italia con all’attivo circa 250 piattaforme collaborative on line. Lo afferma una ricerca dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore presentata da Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice a...

This research measures the economic benefits that European farmers gain from climate adaptation. A structural Ricardian model of farm type choice and conditional income is estimated using data on climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic characteristics for 23452 individual farms across Western Europe....

The last of the series of conference organised by the EPI-WATER consortium (see www.epi-water.eu) aims at conveying the results and recommendations produced throughout the project to a wider academic and policy audience. It also sets to initiate a cross-sector discussion about the prospects,...

"Trust: a debate on the crisis of this invisible institution at the base of economic and social development" Within BOOKCITY MILANO 2013, an event promoted by the Culture Councillorship of the Municipality of Milan and by the Bookcity organizing committee, FEEM organizes a...

The nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is being held in Warsaw, Poland, from 11-22 November 2013. FEEM and Università Ca' Foscari are organizing a joint Side Event on "Costs and Benefits of...

Sappiamo che il potere si sta spostando: da Ovest a Est e da Nord a Sud, dai palazzi presidenziali alle piazze e al cyberspazio, dai formidabili colossi industriali alle agili start-up e, in modo lento ma inesorabile, dagli uomini alle donne. Chi oggi...

Research on cities and climate change has primarily focused on the economic and social costs of climate change (Tol, 2009; Owen, 2009; Davoudi et al, 2009). There has been limited focus on the impact of climate change on human health at the level...

Marianne Fay, Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Sustainable Development Network (SDN), will provide a comprehensive overview of the World Bank report “Inclusive Green Growth: The Pathway to Sustainable Development”. In the report, World Bank economists set out an economic argument and framework...

After the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, in June 2012, the debate on sustainable development and green growth has increasingly focused on monitoring the effective progress in wellbeing, moving from qualitative to quantitative analysis and paving the way for the transition...

The Policy Drivers of Photovoltaic Industry Growth in California, Germany, and Japan gives a detailed description of the policy approaches adopted by the countries that have been most successful in setting up a photovoltaic technology industry. It examines the links between technological paths,...

On November 5 and 6, 2013, FEEM will organize in Milan the second edition of the annual FEEM "Gas Talks”. FEEM "Gas Talks" are closed-door brainstorming meetings gathering high level international experts from the academia, international organizations and industry in order to discuss...

The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Environment Committee), with the support of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, is pleased to present an international Conference on the many problems concerning the availability and use of energy resources. Prominent scientists, including Carlo Rubbia (Physics Nobel Laureate...

In the present study we decompose the change in global calorific supply due to climate change by cereal, climate variable, and region, over varying scenarios of economic development and greenhouse gas emissions . We employ a statistical model to estimate the long-run sensitivity...

The correlation between grains and crude oil price returns has increased dramatically over the past decade. Alternative explanations are the use of food commodities as biofuels feedstocks and the financialization of agricultural futures markets. We estimate and implement a modified version of the...

The aim of this second Convention is to present the latest research carried out at FEEM and CMCC on climate change and sustainable development economics. Recent papers dealing with these topics will be presented by FEEM and CMCC’s researchers, together with key note...

One of the main arguments behind environmental regulation is that it provides incentives to adopt more efficient abatement technologies. In this paper we compare different commitment tax schemes in terms of adoption and efficiency when accounting for a non-competitive R&D sector that offers...

Demand Side Response activities are designed to incentivise flexibility of electricity demand. At the moment in the UK and Europe the focus of Demand Side Response is on retail and industrial consumers rather than residential ones. However, the introduction of smart meter roll-outs...

Is global climate change upon us? Indeed, a vast majority of scientists agree that global warming of the past century has been anthropogenically forced and will continue at earnest if the CO2 rise remains unabated. Yet, large uncertainties remain on the magnitude, regional...

After twenty years, global climate negotiations are at an impasse. To overcome it we propose a compromise for reducing emissions based on four steps: 1) limiting initial action to the Major Economies Forum (MEF) members, 13 economies responsible for 81% of emissions; 2)...

Il clima cambia e così anche le strategie che mettiamo in atto per contrastarne le conseguenze. Le buone pratiche rappresentano una soluzione ottimale per affrontare la complessità delle problematiche ambientali, ma vi sono delle barriere da abbattere affinché queste dimostrino tutta la loro...

Water is essential for all socio-economic development and for maintaining healthy ecosystems. As population increases and development calls for increased allocations of groundwater and surface water for the domestic, agriculture and industrial sectors, the pressure on water resources intensifies, leading to tensions, conflicts...

In January 2013 the Italian Society for Climate Sciences (SISC) was established and we are especially pleased to announce the First Annual SISC Conference. The conference, entitled "Climate change and its implications on ecosystem services and society" aims to involve scientists, researchers, policy...

Several factors including the growing demand for energy to fuel economic development, the need for diversifying into environmentally sustainable supply sources and energy security, and climate change considerations have contributed to the need for accelerating public and private investments in renewable energy. Many...

Natural disasters currently cause an average of $98.9 billion dollars of damages and impact 227.5 million people annually. What role does adaptation play in these impacts? The paper answers this question with evidence from tropical cyclones. The paper begins with a theoretical treatment...

The 15th Annual BIOECON Conference "Conservation and Development: Exploring Conflicts and Challenges" will be held on 18-20 September 2013 at Kings College, Cambridge United Kingdom, hosted by the London School of Economics and the Graduate Institute-Genève Supported by the Founding Partners of the...

The use of CGE models to study the role and costs of mitigation in climate policy has provided a vast literature. However, most of the models used have focused on mitigation policies analyzing  emission reductions focused only on CO2 emissions. Although CO2 emissions...

“Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean” è un compendio in tre volumi che riassume i quattro anni di ricerca all’interno del Progetto Integrato CIRCE, coordinato dall’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia d’Italia. Nel testo si esaminano la variabilità e le...

The paper studies the relationship between prevention and risk sharing in the optimal design of a climate policy. If countries could credibly commit to risk transfer mechanisms, heterogeneity in impacts would not be a problem. Instead, inefficient risk sharing looks like a second...

The School will bring together researchers and policy experts from the disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) fields, to learn about and discuss the advantages and pitfalls of economic and financial policy instruments that serve both purposes, and to share...

The FEEM Award 2013 will be conferred for the fifth year during the 28th annual congress of the European Economic Association and the 67th European meeting of the Econometric Society, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The award will be presented before the...

GCMs incorporate deterministic chaos to reflect real-world chaotic dynamics of weather. This implies that small changes in external forcing can generate very different weather patterns, especially at local level. By using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset I show...

Central America and the Caribbean is one of the most hazard-prone regions in the world. In addition, the region is heavily affected by poverty, unemployment, critical management of natural resources, and urban conglomeration in capital cities, especially in the Small Island Developing States,...

Heterogeneity with respect to underlying country characteristics can have diverse effects on the formation of international environmental agreements. Given that such agreements can be seen as coalitions forming to provide an international public good, relevant dimensions of heterogeneity are, for instance, countries' endowments,...

James Lennox is an Australian researcher at FEEM in Venice until 30 November 2014 under a European Union FP7 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship. He was most recently working for Landcare Research in Auckland, New Zealand. The aim of his research project at...

The recent growth of China's automobile industry has been tremendous. From 2005 to 2011, the sales number of passenger vehicles increased over 300%. However, in the same period, the motor gasoline consumption only increased about 55%. One possible explanation for the differences between...

We build a sub-national version of GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) for Italy. GTAP is a widespread model and database among CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) users covering  more than 50 sectors and 100 countries in the world. We develop an innovative method to...

The recent processes of constitutionalisation in the Southern bank of the Mediterranean Sea have had legal, political and social consequences of remarkable relevance. At the centre of the debate surrounding these dynamics is the quest for a balance between the needs of a...

About TED TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked...

The 2013 Summer School will take place from the 30th of June to the 6th of July at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The theme of this Summer School...

You are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers in all areas of environmental and natural resource economics for presentation at EAERE's 20th Annual Conference to be held in Toulouse, France, June 26-29, 2013. Papers can only be submitted electronically through the conference...

Authors: Silvia Albrizio, Hélia Costa In the context of an emission trading scheme, we study how uncertainty over the environmental policy affects firms' investment in low-carbon technologies. We develop a three period sequential model that combines the industry and the electricity sectors and...

Within the activities of the Art Night in Venice, the Think Forward Film Festival (http://thinkforwardfestival.it/home-en/) hosts the screening of the following short movies: NOBETTERPLACE, directed by Johanna Ickert (21’24”) GOD IS RAIN, directed by Rehad Deasai (6’19’’) and of the winner of the...

Authors: Emanuele Massetti, Robert Mendelsohn, Shun Chonabayashi We test three functional forms that relate land values and temperatures in a Ricardian model of US agriculture for the East of the US: a quadratic relationship based on average seasonal temperature and precipitations, a non-linear...

About International Energy Agency The IEW is a leading conference for the international energy modeling community. In a world of environmental and economic constraints, energy modeling is an increasingly important tool for addressing the complexity of energy planning and policy making. The IEW...

Il monitoraggio del proprio impatto sul clima e sull’ambiente, la trasparenza nel comunicarlo e la messa in atto di azioni per limitarlo costituiscono una parte fondamentale dell’impegno che un’azienda si assume nel momento in cui decide di integrare nel proprio modo di fare...

The alternative of cooperation vs. non-cooperation is a central issue in the analysis and the understanding of international environmental agreements relating to climate change. It has been much studied by means of game theoretic tools, applied most often to static economic models –...

In this study, we questioned the ability of European electricity TSOs to achieve unprecedented capital expenditures, given their current financial situation. We identified a significant financing gap in case of a steady  increase in tariffs, wondered what would be the costs for users...

Authors: Carolyn Fischer and Stephen W. Salant This paper contributes to the recent literature on the Green Paradox (Hoel, 2011 and Harstad, 2012) that distinguishes between regulated and unregulated regions in a Hotelling framework. In our model, different grades of oil are characterized...

Il 29 maggio, al salone d’onore della Triennale di Milano, si è svolto l’evento conclusivo di Lab4energy. 1° classificato: Liceo Scientifico Pier Paolo Pasolini di Potenza Nadia de Felice Stefano Mauro Nicola Miele Lab4energy è un progetto ideato da eniscuola e realizzato in...

With benchmark crudes persistently at high levels, worldwide interest in the future trends and the determinants of oil prices is still very high. According to the World Energy Outlook 2012, the global demand for oil will increase by 14 percent in 2035, and...

Until a few years ago it was believed that the United States would become the first importer of gas in the world, with gas imports growing by the year. Today, the exploitation of shale gas deposits has unexpectedly rendered the United States gas...

The Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) and the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) are pleased to announce their first edition of the Summer School on “Climate Change Impacts and Policy in the Mediterranean Basin” for postgraduate students. The main purpose of...

This presentation will provide the main results and recommendations from the BIOCORE project as funded by the European Commission FP-7 programme. The key discussions from: the online valuation survey; hedonic pricing method; benefit transfer values and vulnerability studies will be highlighted. The final...

Expectations play a crucial role in human interactions and they can be used as a guidance in decision-making. Although recent papers highlight the importance of expectations in decision-making, we still lack direct evidences of how expectations are integrated into an agent’s decision process....

Recent data shows that arctic sea ice is melting faster than originally predicted. Within the next decade, polar warming may transform the Arctic region from an inaccessible frozen desert into a seasonally navigable ocean, opening the way to new economic opportunities, most notably...

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non- profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the...

The UK Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) is one of the world leaders of climate research, with a new programme focused on climate variability, climate change and the biophysical impacts. This talk aims to highlight some recent research that has implications for mitigation...

The EU Emissions ‘Trading System (EU) was intended as the flagship of EU energy and environmental policy. After the introduction in 2005 and two trading periods the market for carbon allowances is on the verge of breaking down. We present an extensive data...

Nel 2009 la Commissione Europea scriveva nel libro bianco sull’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici che “anche se a livello mondiale riuscissimo a limitare e poi a ridurre le emissioni di gas serra, ci vorrà del tempo prima che il pianeta riesca a smaltire...

As addressing climate change becomes a high priority it seems likely that there will be a surge in interest in deploying nuclear power. Other fuel bases are too dirty (coal), too expensive (oil, natural gas) or too speculative (solar, wind) to completely supply...

Many types of economic and social activities involve significant behavioral complementarities (peer effects) with neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities, that cumulates in "stocks" affecting agents' welfare and incentives. For instance, smoking is subject to peer effects, and...

Theme: Positive Disruption Disruption is usually unwelcome. It represents conflict, chaos, and potential danger. We discourage disruptive behavior in our homes and our societies, often favoring passivity and compliance. But disruption can be a positive – sometimes vital – catalyst for change. It...

Regardless the European Union guidelines the will to mainstream climate change into sectorial policies in Poland is weak. The reasons for that wereexamined. Adoption of climate change models examining future water resources and needs at the national scale, show little evidence for long-term...

This paper introduces a theoretical model of an emissions trading scheme with auctioning as the method of initial allocation of permits. Risk-averse polluters and speculators, participating in the scheme, respond idiosyncratically to an economy-wide shock. The model suggests that a polluter’s willingness to...

"Bridging the clean energy R&D” is organised as part of the first conference of the SIMPATIC project. Massimo Tavoni from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) will give a keynote-speech on "Innovative strategies for dealing with climate change", followed by comments from Georg Zachmann,...

This paper investigates the efficiency and distributional implications of a carbon tax as part of a fiscal reform package in the United States. We develop a new dynamic general-equilibrium Auerbach-Kotlikoff-type overlapping generations (OLG) model in which growth is fully endogenous, based on increasing...

There is great uncertainty about the impact of anthropogenic carbon on future economic wellbeing. We use DSICE, a DSGE extension of the DICE2007 model of William Nordhaus, which incorporates beliefs about the uncertain economic impact of possible climate tipping events and uses empirically...

Authors: Jacopo Bonan, Olivier Dagnelie, Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Michel Tenikue Mutual health organizations (MHOs) have been present in the city of Thiès in Senegal for years. Despite their benefits, in some areas take-up rates remain low. We offer an insurance literacy module, which communicates...

Co-author: Ian Sue Wing, Dep. of Earth and Environment, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA This paper assess the impacts of climate change on the productivity of four major crops across the world while accounting for the role of adaptation. High-resolution data...

Authors: Monica Bonacina, Anna Creti, and Federico Pontoni The Italian water sector has encompassed major changes since mid-90s when law 96/94 has entered into force. Next to private participation, integration of services and growth in production scales, the reform was intended to revolutionize...

There is a wide agreement among researchers that increase in wage inequality across the OECD countries was caused by introduction of skill-biased production methods, which generated higher demand for skilled than for unskilled workers. However, does a skill-bias of production methods originate from...

Authors: Yaella Depietri, Torsten Welle, Fabrice G. Renaud More than three quarters of the European population lives in urban areas and this proportion is increasing, leading in some cases to increased vulnerability of cities to hazards. The health impacts of heat waves are...

The impact of climate changes is increasingly evident through movements of climatic variable such as temperature and precipitation. Quantification of this impact is necessary in order to better understand the economic implications these changes. Average global temperature has increased by 0.74 Celsius in...

The second stakeholder meeting of the LIMITS project will be hosted by ECN on February 13th, 2013. The meeting will aim at presenting the results of the first phase of the project and introduce the follow-up analysis. It will focus on two main...

Climate change constitutes a major threat to Sub-Saharan Africa. But it might also be  an opportunity in disguise, to accelerate the access to low carbon energy sources (one of Africa's most important untapped assets); and to enhance the quality and effectiveness of investments...

The 18th CTN workshop will be held at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK on February 8-9, 2013. The workshop will be aimed at providing an avenue for presenting and discussing new contributions on network, coalition and matching theory.  The annual workshop represents...

We are pleased to announce the first IAERE Conference to be held at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Ferrara. Proposals for paper presentations on all relevant topics in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics are invited. Tackling a variety...

L’impatto dei rifiuti sui fenomeni di riscaldamento globale è causato soprattutto dalle emissioni di metano rilasciate dalla decomposizione della frazione biodegradabile nelle discariche. Il potenziale contributo alla riduzione dei gas climalteranti di una corretta gestione dei rifiuti non si limita all’impatto dello smaltimento...

The use of integrated assessment models, which combine models from different fields, raises the need for developing specific modelling concepts in order to provide results to support policy decisions within a practical time frame. Integrated assessment models for air policy relate technologies, the...

Authors: Manfredi Vale, Silvia Battaiotto, and Sonia Longo In recent years, companies and enterprises have matured awareness towards environmental issues, implementing concrete techniques to measure and evaluate their pressures on the environmental sphere. So, it is very interesting develop a benchmark of performance...

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) organise the International Workshop on "Numerical Climate Coalition Models: A Modelling Comparison Exercise"to be held on January 24th-25th, 2013 on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy. About the...

The abundant philosophical literature on climate change mainly explains how (according to an ethic of justice) we can redress climate injustice between generations, between rich and poor etc.; but says little on why we should do so, or what motivations we may have...

The Caribbean are among the most disaster-prone regions in the world. The frequent droughts, floods, hurricanes, storms, landslides and earthquakes constitute a threat to the region’s economies, growth and social development. In the way natural hazards are dealt with, the countries of the...

Authors: Simon Dietz, Carmen Marchiori and Alessandro Tavoni The theory of international environmental agreements overwhelmingly assumes that governments engage as unitary agents. Each government makes choices based on benefits and costs that are simple national aggregates, and similarly on a single set of...

On December 13 and 14, 2012, FEEM will organize in Milan the first edition of the annual FEEM "Gas Talks”. FEEM "Gas Talks" are closed-door brainstorming meetings gathering high level international experts from the academia, international organizations and industry in order to discuss...

The incorporation of an air quality sub-model in integrated assessment models (IAMs) has been an increasingly active research topic in the last decades. However, due to the high computational resources that air quality models require, the integrated assessment approaches frequently use model reduction...

Il processo negoziale in ambito UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) ha mostrato la propria complessità già dopo la COP3 (1997) in Kyoto con la finalizzazione del testo del Protocollo di Kyoto. Da allora abbiamo assistito al fallimento della COP15 (2009)...

We find that pending federal emission standards more than low natural gas prices are promoting a shift from coal to natural gas as the dominant fuel for U.S. power generation. Similar to a number of recent studies, we show that low natural gas...

Il bivio è teatro scientifico, un pungolo per una coscienziosità condivisa, una sfida mossa alla società degli iperconsumi. Lo spettacolo vuole informare e divertire, approfondire e nutrire una necessaria cultura del dubbio. Evento promosso da ICCG, in collaborazione con Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia....

The discrete-continuous models, following the formulation of Hanemann (1984), consider the case of perfect substitute goods: the maximization process leads to extreme corner solutions in which only one alternative is selected. According to this formulation, the literature on energy consumption is limited to...

At the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP 18) of the UNFCCC in Doha, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Ca' Foscari University of Venice organize a side event on "The cost of climate change adaptation: new findings, old gaps and policy implications" on...

The event is the Regional Workshop for Central America and Caribbean of the EU FP7 CATALYST (Capacity Develop-ment for Hazard Risk Reduction and Adaptation) project. It is organised in the context of the 7th Annual Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management. Central America...

The event is organised within the project "Policy-relevant assessment of socio-economic effects of droughts and floods" (PREEMPT) funded by the European Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) in the context of the Financial Instruments for Civil Protection which aims...

The Think Forward Film Festival was established in Venice in 2011, with the aim to study, discuss, and disseminate climate change as well as the issues related to energy efficiency and renewable energy through both short and feature films. The Think Forward Film...

We propose the use of technological standardization as a novel indicator of technological change. Standardization is an important feature of technological progress in many industries and triggers the adoption of new or drastically improved technologies. Our new indicator allows us to identify technology...

The EU and other regions of the world face ever growing challenges to secure supplies of energy and mineral raw materials which have the potential to threaten economic stability and competiveness. The origin of these challenges can be traced, in part, from the...

Connect Me! is the final conference of a three years project within the EU DG Education and Culture Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) – KA3, “Web 2.0-based virtual communities and social learning to strengthen competencies of people at risk of exclusion – CONNECT”. It...

In the fight against climate change, two main strategies are available: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation is represented as a global public good, while adaptation as a private good that accumulates over time. Moreover, mitigation produces benefits only in the long run, while the...

Authors: Michael Ghil (ENS and UCLA), Patrice Dumas (CIRED), Andreas Groth (ENS), and Stéphane Hallegatte (CIRED and World Bank) This paper presents a modeling framework for macroeconomic growth dynamics; it is motivated by recent attempts to formulate and study “integrated models" of the...

L’impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sul patrimonio culturale è stato lungamente ignorato sia a livello della ricerca internazionale che sul piano politico, aspetto questo inaccettabile essendo i beni culturali una risorsa non rinnovabile e da trasmettere alle generazioni future. Il seminario cercherà di...

Since the 1992 Earth Summit and its Action plan Agenda 21, European Union has been constantly looking for opportunities for a greater deployment of price signals and economic incentives or disincentives to reduce the environmental costs of the consumption of energy, materials and...

... il grande personaggio che ha segnato la storia economica e sociale italiana e internazionale e che ha sempre guardato al futuro creando sviluppo e benessere.  In questa occasione FEEM organizza la proiezione dei due documentari  “La voce di Enrico Mattei” e...

The first CliMates International Summit will be held in Paris from October 29th to November 2nd 2012. It will gather CliMates students from all over the world to review and debate one year of collaborative research. The aim of this event is to...

In this paper we examine the effect of technology transfer from 24 developed countries on energy intensity of GDP, carbon intensity of energy use and labour productivity of 56 developing countries empirically. We model specific spillovers embodied in trade of capital goods (machinery...

The aim of this first Convention was to present the latest research carried out at FEEM and CMCC on climate change and sustainable development economics. Recent papers dealing with these topics were presented by FEEM and CMCC’s researchers, together with key note speeches...

This paper compares environmental and profitability outcomes for a centralized biorefinery for cellulosic ethanol that does all processing versus a biorefinery linked to a decentralized array of local depots that pretreat biomass into concentrated briquettes. The analysis uses a spatial bioeconomic model that...

For the past three years, the PASHMINA project consortium has developed and experimented with a new generation of tools to better assess the interaction between the economy and the environment, the paradigm shifts in the energy-transport-environment nexus and land use and territorial functions,...

Incentives for the development of renewable energy have increasingly become an instrument of climate policy, that is, as a means to reduce GHG emissions. This research analyzes the German experience in promoting renewable energy over the past decade to identify the economic cost...

Perché la tutela dell’ambiente è, a parole, la priorità a livello globale e nei fatti assistiamo a un suo costante deterioramento? Perché le maggiori emergenze ambientali (clima, biodiversità, mare), pur avendo portata globale, non riescono a essere gestite globalmente? Qual è il ruolo...

Authors: Luisa Corrado, University of Rome Tor Vergata and University of Cambridge; Roberta Distante, FEEM This paper proposes a novel approach to address identification of social endogenous effects by generalizing the methods commonly used in standard dynamic panel data analysis to the peer...

MEETmeTONIGHT belongs to the initiative “Researchers’ Night” of the European Commission, which will take place on 28 September 2012. The Commission promotes this initiative every year, involving researchers and research institutions in every European country. The Researchers' Night is an event bringing together...

Once again this year FEEM participates at VENETONIGHT, the European Researchers' Night in Veneto promoted by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. On September 28, media events, performances, experiments, conferences, exhibitions will take place in 250...

The international conference Dialogue On Water Resources: From Research To Livelihood Impacts will take place in Venice, on 27-28 September 2012, the second day coinciding with the European Researchers’ Night. The event is organized by FEEM and CMCC in collaboration  with the Ca’Foscari...

A CGE model is developed which combines two different versions of the GTAP model, namely GTAP-E (Burniaux and Truong [2002], McDougall and Golub [2007]) and GTAP-MH (Gotor and Tsigas [2011]). The first links together energy-related CO2 emissions and the economy, the second allows...

In the context of the Water2Adapt project, FEEM researchers will organize a science policy event and capacity building workshop dedicated to water resource management under changing climate. The event will take place in Venice on 26 September 2012 and will involve the authorities...

Authors: Andrea Bastianin - Università di Milano Bicocca and FEEM, Marzio Galeotti - Università di Milano and IEFE-Bocconi, and Matteo Manera - Università di Milano Bicocca and FEEM In recent years the ethanol industry has experienced a dramatic growth that has raised concerns...

The Fourteenth Annual International BIOECON conference on “Resource Economics, Biodiversity Conservation and Development” will be held in the historical premises of Kings College Cambridge, England on 19-20 September 2012. The conference will be of interest to both researchers and policy makers working on biodiversity policy, especially...

Agencies charged with regulating food safety, pharmaceuticals, or industrial processes frequently need to take decisions in settings characterized by ambiguity. What rules should guide those decision? Since the 1990s, the Precautionary Principle (PP) has emerged as the preferred decision rule in policy circles,...

The present backlash in ecological politics comes from an almost total disconnect between the size and extension in space and time of the issues and the institution of politics in charge of representing them to the eyes of those in charge of making...

We have been examining the current and historical difference between urban and rural areas in the U.S. with respect to heating degree days (HDD) and cooling degree days (CDD). Urban areas tend to be warmer than rural areas due to the urban heat...

The 12th IAEE European Energy Conference on "Energy Challenge and Environmental Sustainability" will be hosted and organised by the AIEE - The Italian Association of Energy Economists, in cooperation with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The Conference will...

Authors: Johannes Emmerling, FEEM, and David Anthoff, UC Berkeley This paper analyzes the role of equity weighting and discounting providing a method to disentangle both concept in order to allow to separately studying their respective impact for computing the Social Cost of Carbon...

The Department of Agri-food and Environmental Systems Management (DiGeSA) at the University of Catania, the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) with the support of the municipality of Belpasso, organise the Belpasso International Summer...

The FEEM Award 2012 will be conferred for the fourth year during the 27th EEA Congress in Malaga and will be presented before the Schumpeter Lecture by Gilles Saint Paul (TSE) on August 28, 2012 at 9.30. The 2012 FEEM Award Commission is...

Since the 1970s, advances in telecommunication technologies and transportation systems, along with the deregulation of markets have produced a high intensity of capital mobility and facilitated the formation of a “global” and “informational” (Castells 1996) economy, leading to social and spatial changes in...

Authors: Bahattin Buyuksahin (International Energy Agency), Celso Brunetti (Johns Hopkins University; CFTC) and Jeffrey H. Harris (Syracuse University) We analyze the role of hedge fund, swap dealer and arbitrageur activity in a Markov regime-switching model between high volatility bear markets and low volatility...

The summer 2008 spike in crude oil prices to $147/bbl, followed by a steep correction in late 2008/early-2009 and subsequent sharp rebound over the last three years have jolted the world economy and pinched consumers at the fuel pump. Given the importance of...

Authors: Carolyn Fischer, Richard Newell, and Louis Preonas Over the last decade, concerns about global warming, local air quality, and energy security have led to a plethora of actual and proposed initiatives at the federal and state levels, particularly in the power sector....

Authors: Pablo Andrés Domenech, Guiomar Martín-Herrán, and Georges Zaccour We model the role of the world's forests as a major carbon sink and consider the impact that forest depletion has on the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. Two types of agents are...

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a recurrent climatic event that causes severe weather shocks. This paper employs ENSO-related floods at the end of the agricultural season to identify medium-term effects of negative conditions in early child development. The analysis shows that, four...

The 2012 Summer School will take place from the 1st to the 7th of July at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The theme of this Summer School is Management...

Since 1994, the water supply and sanitation sector in Italy underwent a substantial reform process that set out for a modern, more efficient and harmonised water service. Among others, the reform introduced a water tariff system, based on price cap regulation and (partial)...

The 19th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists will be held in Prague on June 27-30, 2012. The conference is jointly organized by the Environment Center of Charles University in Prague and the University of Economics. Registrations for...

The complexity of integrated assessment models (IAMs) prevents the direct appreciation of the impact of uncertainty on the model predictions. However, understanding direction of change, interaction effects and identifying key uncertainty drivers are crucial tasks both for modelers and decision-makers. We show that...

The 31st edition of the International Energy Workshop (IEW) will be held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 19–21, 2012. The IEW (www.internationalenergyworkshop.org) is a leading conference for the international energy modeling community. In a world of environmental and...

Authors: Angela Falconer, Pat Hogan, Valerio Micale, Alex Vasa, Yuqing Yu, Xuehua Zhang, Xiaolu Zhao, and Julia Zuckerman As nations take on increasingly ambitious climate mitigation goals, they face a heightened need to track their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and actions to mitigate...

The water pricing and tariffs pursue multiple policy goals, seemingly at odds but reconcilable in principle: water use and allocation efficiency, financial viability, and social equity. The event sets to address the legal, administrative and economic challenges of ‘getting the price right’ in...

Authors: Valeria Costantini, University of Roma Tre - Italy Alessio D’Amato, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” – Italy Chiara Martini, University of Roma Tre - Italy Maria Cristina Tommasino, ENEA - Italy Edilio Valentini, University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara - Italy Mariangela Zoli,...

Il successo della politica climatica internazionale dipende in modo critico dalla disponibilità di risorse finanziarie stanziate a favore delle azioni di riduzione delle emissioni di carbonio e per la promozione di un modello di sviluppo resiliente ai cambiamenti climatici. Cruciale è, inoltre, la...

Energy scenarios often envision an early and large expansion of nuclear power on a global scale, especially if stringent climate targets are to be met. It is not uncommon that nuclear power captures 30-40% of the world electricity market in the second half...

Urban areas have particular sensitivities to climate change, and therefore adaptation to a warming planet represents a challenging new issue for urban policy makers in both the developed and developing world. Further to climate mitigation strategies implemented in various cities over the past...

Authors: J. Chateau, R. Dellink, E. Lanzi and B. Magne, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Future projections of the impact of international climate change (and other) policies are usually presented against a “business as usual” baseline or a reference scenario. But a...

The project AMPERE "Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Pathways and Evaluation of the Robustness of Mitigation Cost Estimates" aims for a broad exploration of mitigation pathways and associated mitigation costs under various real world limitations, while at the same time generating a better...

Coral reef ecosystem is adversely affected by anthropogenic and natural stressors, though the former linked to human activities requires proactive action in protecting these delicate biomes. Consequently, understanding the effect of climate change by global increase in temperatures requires a mapping exercise at...

Cape Farewell is internationally recognised for pioneering a cultural response to the climate challenge. Through an innovative programme of exploration, research and public engagement, Cape Farewell harnesses the affective power of the creative sector, inspiring artists across all media to participate in the...

This paper analyzes the difficulties of comparing the respective effectiveness of two among the most important liability regimes in tort law: rule of negligence and strict liability. Starting from the standard Shavellian unilateral accident scheme, I show that matching up liability regime on...

International cooperation on clean energy technologies is often viewed as a complementary solution to key global problems as climate change and energy policy. This form of cooperation is generally considered as less challenging than cooperation on global environmental externalities, hence more likely to...

Authors: Aart de Zeeuw and Amos Zemel We develop a simple model of managing a system subject to pollution damage, such as climate change, under the risk of an abrupt and random jump in the damage function. The model allows the full dynamic...

Authors: Valentina Bosetti, Cristina Cattaneo and Elena Verdolini The contribution of foreigners to the creation of knowledge has been under-researched in the empirical ground. First, the existing literature quite exclusively focused on US while other important places of innovation production have hardly been...

Cos’è cambiato nella ricerca, nelle istituzioni e nelle politiche per la sostenibilità? Qual è il ruolo del mondo del business per la green economy e la lotta contro la povertà energetica?   Introduce: Giuseppe Sammarco – Direttore Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei    ...

Seminario ICCG: "Eventi estremi: il costo dei cambiamenti climatici" Il nuovo rapporto dell’IPCC sulla Gestione dei Rischi legati agli Eventi estremi e i Disastri per la Promozione dell'Adattamento ai Cambiamenti Climatici In un discorso estremamente commovente, tenuto l’anno scorso in seguito ad una...

The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has aimed to encourage the development of low-carbon technologies by putting a price on carbon emissions. Using a newly constructed data set that links 8.5 million European companies with their patenting history and their regulatory...

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this relationship is presented and the implications of an analysis using this model and the usually available data on product and process innovation are derived. Recent...

The existing game theory of international environmental agreements (IEAs) overwhelmingly assumes that governments engage as unitary agents. Each government chooses how much of an international public good to provide, based on benefits and costs that are simple national aggregates, and similarly on a...

Authors: Francesco Vona (OFCE Sciences-Po), Francesco Nicolli (University of Ferrara) and Lionel Nesta (OFCE Sciences-Po) This paper carries out a comprehensive analysis of renewable energy innovations considering four mechanisms suggested by innovation models: 1. policy-inducement; 2. market structure; 3. demand and social cohesion-...

This paper studies the impact of demographic shifts, energy prices and climate factors on Italian households’ energy budget. The pattern of energy expenditure of Italian households is studied using the Italian Household Budget Survey. The expenditure for heating, private transport and electricity are...

Saper comunicare in modo efficace i temi scientifici e ambientali è di particolare importanza in questi anni, specialmente il fenomeno dei cambiamenti climatici. Massimiano Bucchi, professore presso la Facoltà di Sociologia dell'Università di Trento, illustrerà, partendo da dati forniti nell’ambito di recenti indagini...

Il libro Da alcuni anni il prezzo del petrolio sembra essere svincolato dalle leggi di mercato governate da domanda e offerta, assumendo andamenti imprevisti e apparentemente incomprensibili. Nonostante questa variabile abbia un vasto e influente impatto sulle nostre esistenze (e soprattutto sulle nostre...

We present a computable general equilibrium model properly modified to analyse the potential role of the European forestry sector within climate mitigation. Improvements on database and modelling frameworks allow accounting for land heterogeneity across and within regions and for land transfers between agriculture,...

Impact Assessment (IA) of planned policies is increasingly perceived and used as a tool to consider the concerns of Sustainable Development from early on in decision making. For such assessments, a wide range of evidence from many different disciplines is needed: For example,...

Reducing energy poverty in the developing world is a necessary condition to promote its economic and social development. No global target is currently in place to tackle this specific problem, and so far only national efforts have been devoted to this momentous task....

Il cambiamento climatico non è che una delle tante pressioni ambientali a cui è sottoposto il pianeta ma è divenuto il simbolo di un processo transgenerazionale e irreversibile alla scala dei tempi umani che richiede impegni formidabili quanto a mitigazione e adattamento. La...

Co-author: Friederike Mengel, University of Nottingham Social Interactions frequently display two pervasive phenomena: agents tend to interact with similar others (homophily), and tend to treat others more favorably if they are perceived to share their same identity (in-group bias). While both phenomena involve...

In 2009, developed countries committed to a goal of jointly mobilizing USD 100 billion per year by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries with respect to their climate change mitigation and adaptation needs. By compiling data from a wide range of...

Authors: Simona Baldi (University of Genoa), Luciano Canova (Eni Corporate University) and Gianluca Lentini (University of Milan) This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the weather when reporting subjective well-being. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use meteorological variables...

This paper updates the existing meta-analysis in coral reef recreation taking into account the previous work of Brander et al. (2007). The present meta-analysis uses twice the number of observations as the previous one and sheds more light in understanding the influence of...

Authors: Stergios Athanassoglou, Valentina Bosetti Optimal R\&D investment is defined by deep uncertainty that can only partially be addressed through historical data. Thus, expert judgments expressed as subjective probability distributions are seen as an alternative way of assessing the potential of new technologies....

L’uomo da tempo è consapevole che la corretta alimentazione è una condizione essenziale per la salute. Lo sviluppo e la modernizzazione hanno reso disponibili a un numero sempre più ampio di persone cibo vario e in quantità. Senza una cultura adeguata o delle...

Using data from four different case studies in both revealed (RP) and stated preference (SP), we compare the Random Regret Minimization (RRM) and the Random Utility  Maximization (RUM) models in terms of parameter estimates, goodness of fit, elasticities and consequential policy implications. The...

Authors: Stefano Balbi, Sabindra Bhandari, Animesh Gain, Carlo Giupponi Climate change impacts on the Venice Lagoon Watershed (VLW), an area of 2.038 km2 in the north-eastern part of Italy, are expected to be particularly relevant for agriculture (Salon et al. 2008), given that...

Mike Young is one of Australia’s leading water economists and has played a key role in the development of the water entitlement and allocation systems used in this country. In Australia’s Murray Darling Basin both water entitlements and allocations are tradeable and trading...

Increasing the contribution of electricity generated from renewable energy sources is a declared EU policy goal. A substantial part of this electricity will be generated by wind or solar power, i.e. by non-dispatchable technologies. In this talk, the challenges of integrating both intermittent...

Authors: Frederic Ghersi, Valentina Bosetti In this paper we develop the standard utility function of a Ramsey-type optimal growth model to account for a ‘market-time’ vs. ‘free-time’ trade-off. To do so, we introduce a free-time preference coefficient that measures the utility derived from...

A 20 anni di distanza dal Vertice della Terra di Rio de Janeiro, la Conferenza Internazionale sullo Sviluppo Sostenibile (denominata anche Rio+20) costituirà un’occasione cruciale per rinnovare l’impegno per lo sviluppo sostenibile a livello globale, a partire dal tema dei cambiamenti climatici. Il...

Several phases of the research carried out during the research project BRAHMATWINN (FP6) are described here. In a first step two parallel processes have been designed and implemented: (1) the identification of the potential supply of scientific knowledge through the development of a...

We aim at disentangling the impact of effort on envy. To do so we observe the impact of effort on individual well-being and behaviour. In our experiment subjects are paired and receive endowments whether according to their performance in a real-effort task or...

The last decades have witnessed a number of changes in commodities futures markets. The oil market has kept growing, becoming the world's biggest commodity market and turning from a primarily physical product activity into a sophisticated financial market. The increasing presence of hedgers,...

Using a laboratory experiment, we elicit consumers’ risk perceptions of the probability that given levels of pesticide residues will be present in apples via an innovative risk elicitation technique known as the Exchangeability Method (EM). We also investigate the validity of stated risks...

The way that the gas is priced has a significant influence on the level of prices and, therefore, on the level of demand, supply and trade. Traditionally, natural gas trade has been limited geographically within three main regional gas markets, namely North American,...

This paper contributes to the literature in market power for emissions permits. I consider a two-stage static complete information game where the market power arises endogenously from players' parameters. In the first stage players bid in an auction for the initial distribution of...

The book International negotiations are no longer a deterrent to war crimes: current conflicts are ruthless clashes between unequal combatants that regress into savagery. The practice of privatizing war, and dodging the law, is spreading more and more. Human rights are often used...

We examine the extent to which economic development reduces both a country’s disaster risk and its social vulnerability to climate-related disasters. Using data from the EM-DAT database representing country-level observations over the period 1980-2007, we find that economic development significantly reduces a country’s...

Innovation is a key component of success for all world regions and works as a central platform  through which government actions and businesses efforts can interact. We are witnessing a surge in knowledge-intensive activities by firms in catch-up economies, which are altering the...

In October 2011, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and the World Bank Group, in collaboration with China Light & Power and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, hosted the inaugural meeting of "the San Giorgio Group" (SGG), a new working group of key...

Resource land conservation provides a wide range of environmental benefits. The benefits can vary based on the spatial pattern or contiguity of conservation activities. Land conservation programs sponsored by government agencies, quasi-governmental agencies, and private conservation organizations may interact with each other and...

Il progetto "Indice di Sostenibilità FEEM" -  "FEEM Sustainability Index - FEEM SI"...

Achieving the EU’s dual objectives of combating climate change by 2020 and beyond and implementing its ambitious Europe 2020 economic growth agenda will require the development, demonstration and in particular the deployment of new low-carbon technologies at a faster rate than is currently...

Until 1960s, hydropower was the chief source of electricity produced in Italy. Nowadays with a share of about 18% of the total production, hydropower is second only to thermal electricity generation. Among the renewables, hydroelectricity accounts for some 67% of the national production,...

Co-Author: Akira HIBIKI, National Institute for Environmental Studies Future climate change is likely to bring increased frequency of natural disaster including flooding events. Thus, much attention has been paid to adaptation policy against flooding. From the cost benefit analysis on adaptation policy, effective...

The paper investigates the determinants of real oil prices since the 1980s by means of a large-scale macroeconometric model, allowing for an accurate modeling of oil demand and supply interactions and the macro-finance interface. Results show that macro-finance (fundamental) factors are the key...

The presentation will review what the EU ETS has accomplished to date and discuss whether it represents the path to a future global climate regime envisioned in the Kyoto Protocol or a dead end in the absence of US action and within the...

Authors: Valentina Bosetti and Elena Verdolini Notwithstanding the central role attributed to technology transfer (TT) and the effort to promote it through the creation of permanent international bodies such as the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice of the UNFCCC, very little...

«Il capitalismo non è riducibile, come mostrano i paradossi cinesi, alla venalità individuale, ma richiede, in dosi crescenti, complicità statali. Consiste d’individualissima invidia, persegue il lusso del superfluo, ma richiede lo stato in guerra o in stampa di banconote»   «I fondamenti di...

Objectives Non-market valuation is a collection of methods and techniques for placing a monetary value on goods that are not traded in regular marketplaces. These include environmental quality, health risks, artistic and cultural heritage, and natural resources that are visited and used for...

In this paper we consider the finite-sample properties of Realized Range estimators of integrated variance. We show that the combination of irregular sampling and missing observations induces a bias in the Realized Range measures. We propose a simple correction in order to reduce...

The Think Tank Map is a new observatory, developed by the International Center for Climate Governance - ICCG, that provides an overview on the think tanks active in the field of climate change governance. Through an interactive world map, this tool will make...

We investigate how changes in incentives to publish implemented at the country level relate to the number of submissions, publications and acceptance rates to the journal Science for 30 OECD-monitored countries for the period 2000-2009. Country is determined by that of the first...

One of the aims of the  CIRCE FP6 project (http://www.circeproject.eu/) is to assess the socio-economic impacts of climate change on the Mediterranean region. The A1B IPCC SRES scenario is chosen as reference for all the research teams participating to CIRCE. Consistently with that...

The article analyses the scope for enhanced coordination in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in the forest sector. The two conventions encourage forest conservation and sustainable management from different...

The morning session will be devoted to the presentation of the EXIOPOL policy briefs, summarizing the main project results, and of the EE IO Database. The afternoon session will bring together international experts dealing with the issue of Sustainable Development, to discuss the...

First Stakeholder Workshop of the LIMITS Project  - Low climate impact scenarios and the implications of required tight emission control strategies LIMITS (Low climate IMpact scenarios and the Implications of required Tight emission control Strategies) is a EU funded research project that aims...

Issue Foreign direct investment (FDI) may play a key role in the global effort to shift towards a low-carbon economy. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can contribute in several important ways to climate change mitigation, by introducing cleaner production processes in their domestic and foreign...

Authors: Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi, Andreas Löschel and Sebastian Voigt This paper explores macroeconomic impacts of sectoral approaches as a set of options to engage emerging economies such as China, Mexico and Brazil in setting policies for a lower emission path and to address potentially...

Authors: Matteo Manera, Marcella Nicolini and Ilaria Vignati (FEEM) We discuss two different papers which investigate if and how financial speculation affects commodities futures prices over the period 1986-2010. First, we find weak evidence of speculation affecting commodities returns. Second, this evidence is...

FEEM is one of the organizers of VENETONIGHT, The European Researchers' Night in Veneto promoted by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. On September 23, media events, performances, experiments, conferences, exhibitions will take place in 250...

This project investigates the importance of implementing adequate locational signals and their possible effects on generation technologies and the performance and regulation of the electricity system, with particular reference to renewable energy in the British electricity market. The economic theory for calculating optimal...

The outcome of cost-benefit analyses of environmental and climate, transport and health policies often depend heavily on the number used for the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). However, VSL numbers vary greatly across countries, and even between sectors in the same country. ...

We consider the optimality of the weighting scheme used to construct the Human Development Index (HDI) using an approach that relies on consistent tests for stochastic dominance efficiency. We consider consistent tests for stochastic dominance efficiency of a given hybrid composite index with...

Divulgare la scienza significa letteralmente parlare di scienza alle persone. Gente e scienza: può sembrare un matrimonio verbale davvero poco probabile. La scienza infatti è spesso oggetto di pregiudizi e diffidenze da parte del pubblico più vasto, al quale può apparire lontana e...

Since governments influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. Recent contributions in the environmental R&D literature seem to confirm this conjecture, and suggest that incentives...

One week of events organized by the Province of Trento to discuss the climate challenge from the economic, social and environmental perspectives, with distinguished guests from the scientific, economic, cultural and art worlds (http://www.climatrentino.it/). FEEM researchers will actively participate in a few scientific...

FEEM, the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Catania (UNICT) and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) organise the Belpasso International Summer School on Environmental and Resource Economics. The broader objective of the Belpasso International Summer School is to...

Current estimates of the benefits from malaria reduction (including educational attainment) come from studies that look at eradication in the United States, Latin America, and South Asia. However, the effects from reducing the incidence of malaria are likely to be quite different from...

The FEEM Award will be given to the authors of the three best papers presented by young economists at the annual congress of the EEA. The FEEM Award will be conferred for the third year during the 26th EEA Congress at Oslo. Eligible...

* OIL PRICE, MACROECONOMIC DYNAMICS AND FINANCIAL SPECULATION Claudio Morana, Università del Piemonte Orientale and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei The paper investigates the determinants of real oil prices since the 1980s by means of a large-scale macroeconometric model, allowing for an accurate modelling...

This presentation describes the Corporate Ecosystem Valuation (CEV), a valuation process to make better-informed business decisions by explicitly estimating the effects of the business activity on ecosystem services (ES). Valuation can make decision making around ecosystems more compelling and practical, thereby enhancing sustainable...

CCS Technology aspects will be first reviewed taking particular attention to those issues that could impact introduction of CCS on the market. Then, a general overview of the worldwide projects will be given and a few hints will be spent about the future...

In 2011 the International Energy Workshop will celebrate its 30th anniversary and will be held at Stanford University, CA, USA, where the first meeting was organised in 1981. The International Energy Workshop - IEW is an informal network of analysts actively working on...

The 2011 Summer School will take place from the 3rd to the 9th of July at the Venice International University campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The theme of this Summer School...

FEEM is one of the co-sponsors of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - EAERE 2011 that will take place in Rome at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, from June 29th to July 2nd 2011....

The residential sector is the largest final energy consumer in Hungary. It is responsible for 30% of total national carbon dioxide emissions. The general poor condition of the building stock is increasingly being regarded as the source of social and environmental tensions, including...

Generation capacity expansion models can be interpreted in terms of equilibrium in a competitive environment.  The property remains valid in a risky world assuming that all agents in the economy are risk-neutral. The dual variables of the model play a crucial role as...

The issue of increased competition and conflict over access to oil, gas and minerals has risen up the political agendas prices have risen, emerging countries such as China and India have become major new players in international energy and mineral markets, and multiple...

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The Fourteenth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis will be held from the 16th to the 18th of June 2011 in Venice, Italy, at the School of Economics and Business of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The Conference will be organised by...

*** This seminar has been jointly organized by FEEM and IEFE, Bocconi University....

Environmental policy imposes social costs, but with the intent of yielding social returns, often over a long period of time. Like other private or public investments, that return is uncertain. But unlike most investments, the uncertainty is complex and is often the objective...

Catastrophic climate-change damages are characterized by deep structural uncertainties in the science combined with severe constraints on the ability to evaluate meaningfully the welfare losses. The critical question is: How fast does the probability of a catastrophe decline relative to the welfare impact...

CO2 removal from the atmosphere (CDR), also called “negative emissions,” may or may not become a serious component of climate change policy some decades ahead. Already, integrated assessment modellers are assessing roles for negative emissions in the second half of the century. While...

Recent Eurobarometer data report that climate change is seen as the second most serious problem that the world is facing today; yet the percentage of people that mentions climate change among the first 4 major global problems has decreased, from the 62% reported...

Former U.S. Congressman Phil Sharp, President of Resources for the Future, will provide a perspective on American state and federal climate policies and on developments in U.S. energy markets which will impact greenhouse gas emissions.  He will also speculate about the outcome of...

Innovation and the resulting technological change are expected to play a major role in easing the anthropogenic pressure on the environment whilst allowing for development and growth. Although crucial, the dynamics of innovation, adoption and diffusion of energy technologies are yet to be...

In the late 1970’s, events at Love Canal and the Valley of Drums raised public concern over the health and environmental risks associated with contaminated waste sites. In response to these incidents, the US Congress established the Superfund program to clean up hazardous...

Il seminario ha l'obiettivo di illustrare le caratteristiche del programma FP7 PEOPLE, includendo gli obiettivi, la struttura e le regole di partecipazione ai diversi schemi di finanziamento. Verrà offerta una panoramica sulle varie azioni Marie Curie e sulle Call del 2011 dedicate...

The enlargement of the European Union in 2004 caused a large migration wave from Central Europe to Ireland and the UK. This paper addresses the question whether such an emigration wave changes the wage distribution in the source country. In a theoretical model...

The seminar is not intended for game theorists – unless they are interested in learning how their theories, and the theory of environmental games developed in a forthcoming  book, are being used for studying the actual problem of climate change. Similarly for economists...

Developing countries have struggled with low electrification rates in the rural areas. This study investigates one major issue impeding the rural electrification programmes high connection payments. The paper uses estimates obtained from a stated preference study in rural Kenya, namely a contingent valuation...

SECURE (Security of Energy Considering its Uncertainty, Risk and Economic implications) is a research project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme with the aim of building a comprehensive framework that covers the issues related to security of supply inside...

The future role of nuclear energy is a key factor in determining a long-term energy strategy to cope with the challenges ahead: a growing planet with a growing thirst for energy; the need to provide the access to modern sources of energy for...

We investigate the determinants of state aid to the car sector in the European Union over the period 1992-2007. We find that industry's characteristics such as the presence of a "national champion" matter. Additionally, the EU address for "less aid, better aid" seems...

On 24-25 March 2011, FEEM will host at its headquarters in Venice a two-days internal meeting (Internal Meeting, Workpackage 4 meeting and Project Steeering Committee Meeting) of the PASHMINA (PAradigm SHifts Modelling and INnovative Approaches) project. PASHMINA is a project supported by the...

We examine the issue of whether two monopolists which produce substitutable goods should be regulated by one (centralization) or two regulatory authorities, when the regulator(s) can be partially captured by industry. Under full information, two decentralized agencies - each regulating a single market...

We examine the reaction of non-signatory countries to partial cooperation on climate change. Although free- riding incentives lead countries that do not participate in an international environmental agreement to increase their emissions, under some conditions technology advancements within the coalition spill over to...

"Market Coupling" is currently seen as the most advanced market design in the restructuring of the European electricity market. It also inspires current discussions on the Gas Target Model demanded by ERGEG. Market coupling, by construction, introduces what is generally referred to as...

To explain the dynamics of technological transitions, we develop a model where agents enjoy positive network externalities from using the same technology, while some agents, called entrepreneurs, ignore these externalities and introduce new technologies. We assume that technologies form a graph which is...

*** This seminar has been jointly organized by FEEM and IEFE, Bocconi University....

After an introduction which summarises the key global energy issues, a brief overview is provided with respect to the past 3 main periods which have characterised the development of nuclear energy from the first commercial plant in 1954 up to the present days....

Over the past decades, the world witnessed a striking increase in the economic losses caused by natural disasters. While in principle natural hazards cannot be prevented, their impacts can be moderated if not avoided. It is well established that rising population and economic...

This paper aims at evaluating the changes in the policy costs and in the electricity mix when the Super-Grid is added to the portfolio of available technological options to reduce the carbon footprint of the electricity sector. We extend the WITCH model so...

The seminar will be a summary of several papers, including "A dynamic analysis of human welfare in a warming planet”, by Humberto Llavador (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), John E. Roemer (Yale University), and Joaquim Silvestre (University of California, Davis), which abstract is below. Climate...

On 26-28 January 2011, FEEM will host at its headquarters in Milan the second Annual Meeting of the LIAISE (Linking Impact Assessment Instruments with Sustainability Expertise) Network of Excellence (NoE). LIAISE is a project supported by the EC under the 7th Framework Programme...

This paper provides a survey of the policies and measures that are associated to low carbon societies in the recent literature, both peer-reviewed and “grey”. A first section focuses on carbon pricing, the most common policy measure represented. It starts by analysing the...

The precautionary principle (PP) applied to environmental policy stipulates that, in the presence of physical uncertainty, society must take take robust preventive action to guard against worst-case outcomes.  It follows that the higher the degree of uncertainty, the more aggressive this preventive action...

In occasione della chiusura dei negoziati sul clima a Cancùn, in Messico - dove dal 29 novembre al 10 dicembre si tiene la sedicesima Conferenza delle Parti della Convenzione Quadro delle Nazioni Unite sui Cambiamenti Climatici (COP16, UNFCCC) -la FEEM organizza una...

Recent literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) has raised questions about the strength of the empirical results, the appropriate model specification, and the validity of the underlying theoretical model. Data limitations and measurement error have also been issues; many empirical studies of...

SUS.DIV is organising a Policy Workshop with policy-makers to discuss our proposals for a new strategy to manage diversity in view of sustainability. Humans beings have always been and always will be diverse (‘la condition humaine’!). In our age, however, the ever-increasing global...

A dynamic-recursive general equilibrium model ICES of FEEM was employed to evaluate the alternative post-Kyoto targets and instruments of GHGs reduction for Annex I and Annex II countries. A special focus was made on assessment of potential benefits from emission trading between the...

This research  addresses the optimisation of building envelopes in order to minimise the amount of carbon dioxide emitted due to the energy employed for heating, cooling and lighting the internal environment. The objective is achieved by exploiting a global optimisation method called Particle...

The persistent uncertainty about mid-century CO2 emissions targets is likely to affect not only the technological choices that energy-producing firms will make in the future but also their current investment decisions. We illustrate this effect on CO2 price and global energy transition within...

In this paper stochastic dynamic programming is used to investigate habitat conservation by a multitude of landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under competition on the market for agricultural products when voluntary and...

Using an improved database on the stock of immigrants and emigrants in OECD countries for the years 1990 and 2000  we construct data on net immigration and emigration from and to these countries. Using these flows and data on the labor force of...

Il seminario è teso a fornire gli strumenti per preparare una proposta di ricerca all'interno del programma FP7 IDEAS - ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants. Il bando è rivolto ai giovani ricercatori con un CV di eccellenza scientifica che vogliono sviluppare un'idea di...

Public transfers from central governments are widely used policy tools aimed at promoting economic development. We argue that large amounts of public transfers can have the opposite effect to the one desired. By providing politicians and entrepreneurs with higher incentives to engage in...

We explore one dimension of global value chains: the complexity of organization of international production within multinational business groups as represented by the worldwide control chains. Exploiting a unique dataset that matches affiliates with parent companies, we first propose a measure of entropy...

Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), in the context of the 2010 activities of the Long-Term Investors Club (LTIC), in co-operation with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Feem) and with the partnership of Eni, is organising the Venice Forum “Towards a Sustainable Future: The Role...

Just a few weeks before the start of negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancùn, FEEM hosts the third meeting of the European Dialogue on the Energy&Climate Challenge, a  joint FEEM, IDDRI and CEPS initiative. The meeting aims at eliciting...

An integrated assessment model (ENVISAGE), including a CGE-based economic module and a climate module, is used to assess the effects of a variety of economic impacts induced by climate change. These impacts include: sea level rise, variations in crop yields, water availability, human...

Diversity is one of the key words of our time. As globalisation is making the world smaller, bringing in interaction an increasing diversity of people, products and ideas, the question of whether and how we can live and prosper together while keeping and...

The success of the international climate policy crucially depends on how much and what type of finance is going to be made available to support efforts that bring the world towards a low-carbon future. Research and work related to various aspects of climate...

A key component of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is continued global biodiversity loss and the implications of this for human well being. Biodiversity is a complex resource that demands a multi-disciplinary ecological and economic approach. Solutions to biodiversity loss will come both from...

The Resilience workshop is the first of a series of events dedicated to Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction. The second one (Economics of Natural Disaster) will take place in February 2011. The events are organised by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in cooperation...

Il seminario sui nuovi bandi del 7° Programma Quadro della Commissione Europea  ha l’obiettivo di presentare le opportunità di finanziamento offerte dalle nuove Call dei programmi Cooperation (Environment, Social Science and Humanities e Energy) e Ideas (ERC Starting Grant). Particolare attenzione verrà posta...

***Closed-door brainstorming workshop *** Recent events have shifted the gas markets balance from sellers to buyers. The economic depression, the simultaneous strong development of shale gas in North America and the increase of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply has created an important (temporary?)...

FEEM, in association with the Basque Centre for Climate Change, Conservation International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the United Nations Environment Programme, announces the Twelfth International BIOECON Conference "From the Wealth of Nations to the Wealth of Nature: Rethinking Economic...

On September 24, 2010 a consortium composed of FEEM, the two Venetian universities Ca’ Foscari and IUAV, Unioncamere Veneto and the Municipality of Venice will organise VENIGHT - the European Researchers’ Night in Venice, showing how researchers’ life and work are closely related...

The conference focuses on ecosystem services, exploring the understanding between biodiversity, ecosystem health, ecosystem services and human wellbeing. Furthermore, the conference will also address the identification of effective tools that help us to map and quantify such complex relationships, highlighting the potential role...

Climate change and international migration flows are phenomena which attract a great deal of attention from policymakers, researchers and the general public around the globe. Are these two phenomena related? Is migration an adaptation strategy to sudden or gradual changes in climate? The...

Dopo decenni di relativa indifferenza generale, le relazioni tra demografia ed economia sono tornate al centro dell'interesse e costituiscono una fonte di preoccupazione per economisti e politici. Occasionalmente, nel nostro paese qualche segno di attenzione si è avuto negli anni Settanta, quando si...

Catastrophe models are used by the insurance industry to underwrite low frequency / large consequences risks. The underlying structure of loss correlation of natural catastrophes makes traditional actuarial methods for pricing and capital allocation ineffective. Catastrophe models are built around a hazard module...

The Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Catania (UNICT), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) are the partner organizers of the Belpasso International Summer School on Environmental and Resource Economics. The School is...

Computable general equilibrium models simulate the reaction of industries on carbon taxes. Their results differ strongly on the assumption of the underlying technologies. This paper compares two models and emphasizes the differences between their approaches to technology. The  first model is the CITE...

The 2010 FEEM Award ceremony took place on 24 August 2010 before the Adam Smith Lecture by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz at the 25th EEA congress at the University of Glasgow. The prizes were bestowed by Prof. Stiglitz, at the presence of EEA president Timothy...

We examine 802 investments by 33 Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) in publicly traded companies between May 1985 and November 2009, and find that SWFs tend to invest in large, levered, profitable growth firms, usually headquartered in an OECD country. Announcements of SWF investments...

International climate financing has emerged as a major topic in the negotiations of a global climate agreement between developed and developing countries.  The Copenhagen Accord includes both a shorter term Fast Start fund of $30 billion for the period to 2012 and sets...

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between growth opportunity, technology shocks and asset prices in China. Although there have been a large number of studies on developed economies, the relationship between stock market movements and firm characteristics in China is still unclear. Following...

The Summer School on Environmental accounting: externality valuation and Input-Output tools for policy analysis is organized within the EXIOPOL project. The 2010 Exiopol Summer School will take place from the 11th to the 17th of July at the VIU campus on the Island...

This paper reviews the constraints of trade within a non-point source water permit market. Having developed a theoretical model of the agricultural firm’s decision between their primary production activity (growing crops) and selling permits, an agent based model is employed to review the...

The 2010 Summer School will take place from the 4th to the 10th of July at the Venice International University campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The theme of this Summer School is...

We investigate the reasons that induce policymakers to assign banking supervision to central banks rather than involving authorities outside the banking sector. On one hand, empirical results provide evidence that policymakers prefer that, conditional on several known features affecting supervisory task assignment, the...