The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a no-profit, no-partisan research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable development. Recognised by the President of the Italian Republic in July 1989, it has since become a leading international research centre. One of its principal aims is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental degradation. FEEM circulates a series of working papers in English collecting the output of research in the field of economics, energy and the environment and the presentations made at international workshops and congresses. FEEM's Note di Lavoro are classified into the following series:
ASD: Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development
EET: Econometrics of the Energy Transition
GET: Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
MET: Modelling the Energy Transition
TET: Technologies for the Energy Transition
AFRICA:REP: Africa Research, Empowerment, Partnership
FEP: Future Energy Program
FACTS: Firms And Cities Towards Sustainability
ES: Economy and Society
CSI: Climate and Sustainable Innovation
MITP: Mitigation, Innovation and Transformation Pathways
CCSD: Climate Change and Sustainable Development
EIA: Climate Change: Economic Impacts and Adaptation
ERM: Energy: Resources and Markets
ESP: Energy Scenarios and Policy
SAS: Society and Sustainability
ETA: Economic Theory and Applications
Papers from 2016
Tipping Points and Loss Aversion in International Environmental Agreements, Doruk Iris and Alessandro Tavoni
Using Carbon Pricing Revenues to Finance Infrastructure Access, Michael Jakob, Claudine Chen, Sabine Fuss, Annika Marxen, Narasimha Rao, and Ottmar Edenhofer
China’s Pursuit of Environmentally Sustainable Development: Harnessing the New Engine of Technological Innovation, Wei Jin and ZhongXiang Zhang
Technology Invention and Diffusion in Residential Energy Consumption. A Stochastic Frontier Approach, Giovanni Marin and Alessandro Palma
Building Uncertainty into the Adaptation Cost Estimation in Integrated Assessment Models, Anil Markandya and Enrica De Cian
Anatomy of Risk Premium in UK Natural Gas Futures, Beatriz Martinez and Hipòlit Torró
The Strategic Use of Abatement by a Polluting Monopoly, Guiomar Martín-Herrán and Santiago J. Rubio
Macroeconomic and Financial Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Evidence for the Euro Area, Claudio Morana
Quantifying the Effects of Expert Selection and Elicitation Design on Experts’ Confidence in their Judgments about Future Energy Technologies, Gregory F. Nemet, Laura Diaz Anadon, and Elena Verdolini
Accelerated Depreciation, Default Risk and Investment Decisions, Paolo Panteghini and Sergio Vergalli
A Note on Pollution Regulation With Asymmetric Information, Alberto Pench
Climate Change, Water Scarcity in Agriculture and the Economy-Wide Impacts in a CGE Framework, Roberto Ponce, Ramiro Parrado, Alejandra Stehr, and Francesco Bosello
Municipal Waste Collection: Market Competition and the EU policy, Carlo Reggiani and Francesco Silvestri
Sharing R&D Investments in Breakthrough Technologies to Control Climate Change, Santiago J. Rubio
Keeping up with the e-Joneses: Do Online Social Networks Raise Social Comparisons?, Fabio Sabatini and Francesco Sarracino
The Water Abstraction License Regime in Italy: A Case for Reform?, Silvia Santato, Jaroslav Mysiak, and C. D. Pérez-Blanco
Quantifying the Ancillary Benefits of the Representative Concentration Pathways on Air Quality in Europe, Milan Ščasný, Emanuele Massetti, Jan Melichar, and Samuel Carrara
Extending the EU Commission’s Proposal for a Reform of the EU Emissions Trading System, Stefan P. Schleicher, Angela Köppl, and Alexander Zeitlberger
Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade, Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins
How much Electricity do we Consume? A Guide to German and European Electricity Consumption and Generation Data, Maximilian Schumacher and Lion Hirth
Do Extreme Weather Events Generate Attention to Climate Change?, Matthew R. Sisco, Valentina Bosetti, and Elke U. Weber
Sea Level Rise, Radical Uncertainties and Decision-Maker’s Liability: the European Coastal Airports Case, Leonid V. Sorokin and Gérard Mondello
Exploring the Potential for Energy Efficiency in Turkey, Simone Tagliapietra
The Changing Dynamics of Energy in Turkey, Simone Tagliapietra
COP 21 and Economic Theory: Taking Stock, Henry Tulkens
Price Competition in Product Variety Networks, Philip Ushchev and Yves Zenou
Regional Low-Emission Pathways from Global Models, Heleen van Soest, Lara Aleluia Reis, Detlef van Vuuren, Christoph Bertram, Laurent Drouet, Jessica Jewell, Elmar Kriegler, Gunnar Luderer, Keywan Riahi, Joeri Rogelj, Massimo Tavoni, and Michel den Elzen
The Future Prospects of Energy Technologies: Insights from Expert Elicitations, Elena Verdolini, Laura Diaz Anadon, and Erin Baker
Bridging the Gap: Do Fast Reacting Fossil Technologies Facilitate Renewable Energy Diffusion?, Elena Verdolini, Francesco Vona, and David Popp
Measures, Drivers and Effects of Green Employment: Evidence from US Local Labor Markets, 2006-2014, Francesco Vona, Giovanni Marin, and Davide Consoli
An Economic Assessment of Low-Carbon Investment Flows in the U.S. Power Sector, Lu Wang, Alice Favero, and Marylin Brown
Access to Short-term Credit and Consumption Smoothing within the Paycycle, Mary Zaki
Intermediate Input Linkage and Carbon Leakage, Zengkai Zhang and ZhongXiang Zhang
Are China’s Climate Commitments in a Post-Paris Agreement Sufficiently Ambitious?, ZhongXiang Zhang
Making China the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy: Key Challenges and Responses, ZhongXiang Zhang
The Long Italian Stagnation and the Welfare Effects of Outsourcing, Jacopo Zotti
Papers from 2015
Information v. Energy Efficiency Incentives: Evidence from Residential Electricity Consumption in Maryland Anna Alberini, Charles Towe, Anna Alberini and Charles Towe
Incentives for Price Manipulation in Emission Permit Markets with Stackelberg Competition, Francisco J. André and Luis M. de Castro
Revisiting Worst-case DEA for Composite Indicators, Stergios Athanassoglou
Future Costs of Key Low-Carbon Energy Technologies: Harmonization and Aggregation of Energy Technology Expert Elicitation Data, Erin Baker, Valentina Bosetti, Lara Aleluia Reis, Max Henrion, and Laura Diaz Anadon
Decision Frameworks and the Investment in R&D, Erin Baker, Olaitan Olaleye, and Lara Aleluia Reis
How Does Stock Market Volatility React to Oil Shocks?, Andrea Bastianin and Matteo Manera
The Role of Outliers and Oil Price Shocks on Volatility of Metal Prices, Niaz Bashiri Behmiri and Matteo Manera
The Impact of Ambiguity Prudence on Insurance and Prevention, Loïc Berger
Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Climate Policies Through a Future International Agreement, Daniel Bodansky, Seth A. Hoedl, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and Robert N. Stavins
Catastrophic Risk, Precautionary Abatement, and Adaptation Transfers, Francesco Bosello, Enrica De Cian, and Licia Ferranna
Macro-economic Impact Assessment of Future Changes in European Marine Ecosystem Services, Francesco Bosello, Elisa Delpiazzo, and Fabio Eboli
Luring Others into Climate Action: Coalition Formation Games with Threshold and Spillover Effects, Valentina Bosetti, Alessandro Tavoni, and Mélanie Heugues
Positive Freedom in Networked Capitalism: An Empirical Analysis, Davide Carbonai and Carlo Drago