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2010.96: The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills Across Sectors

Emanuele Massetti and Lea Nicita

2010.95: The Impact of Mergers on the Degree of Competition in the Banking Industry

Vittoria Cerasi, Barbara Chizzolini and Marc Ivaldi

2010.94: On the Green Side of Trade Competitiveness? Environmental Policies and Innovation in the EU

Valeria Costantini and Massimiliano Mazzanti

2010.93: The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn and David Hemous

2010.92: Assessing China’s Energy Conservation and Carbon Intensity: How Will the Future Differ from the Past?

ZhongXiang Zhang

2010.91: Copenhagen and Beyond: Reflections on China’s Stance and Responses

ZhongXiang Zhang

2010.90: Job Instability and Family Planning: Insights from the Italian Puzzle

Fabio Sabatini

2010.89: Executive Compensation: Facts

Gian Luca Clementi and Thomas Cooley

2010.88: A Theory of Firm Decline

Gian Luca Clementi, Thomas Cooley and Sonia Di Giannatal

2010.87: Traditional Representations of the Natural Environment and Biodiversity Conservation: Sacred Groves in Ghana

Paul Sarfo-Mensah, William Oduro, Fredrick Antoh Fredua and Stephen Amisah

2010.86: The Benefits of Contaminated Site Cleanup Revisited: The Case of Naples and Caserta, Italy

Anna Alberini, Milan Ščasný, Dennis Guignet and Stefania Tonin

2010.85: What is the Value of Hazardous Weather Forecasts? Evidence from a Survey of Backcountry Skiers

Anna Alberini, Christoph Rheinberger, Andrea Leiter, Charles A. McCormick and Andrew Mizrahi

2010.84: Community-based Adaptation: Lessons from the Development Marketplace 2009 on Adaptation to Climate Change

Rasmus Heltberg, Radhika Prabhu and Habiba Gitay

2010.83: Improving Education as Key to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Developing Countries

Wolfgang Lutz

2010.82: Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change

Shardul Agrawala and Maëlis Carraro

2010.81: The Effect of Risk, Ambiguity and Coordination on Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change: A Framed Field Experiment

Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez, Fredrik Carlsson and Maria Naranjo

2010.80: The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Robert Hahn and Robert Stavins

2010.79: International Environmental Agreements under Uncertainty: Does the Veil of Uncertainty Help?

Michael Finus and Pedro Pintassilgo

2010.78: Illiquidity and all its Friends

Jean Tirole

2010.77: Are You SURE You Want to Waste Policy Chances? Waste Generation, Landfill Diversion and Environmental Policy Effectiveness in the EU15

Valentina Iafolla, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Francesco Nicolli

2010.76: China in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

ZhongXiang Zhang

2010.75: Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence

Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo

2010.74: The Oil-Based Economies International Research Project. The Case of Iran

Fereydoun Verdinejad and Yasaman Gorji

2010.73: The Consequences of Corruption: Evidence from China

Bin Dong and Benno Torgler

2010.72: The Causes of Corruption: Evidence from China

Bin Dong and Benno Torgler

2010.71: Agricultural Insurances Based on Meteorological Indices: Realizations, Methods and Research Agenda

Antoine Leblois and Philippe Quirion

2010.70: Environmental Policy, Education and Growth with Finite Lifetime: the Role of Abatement Technology

Xavier Pautrel

2010.69: Regulatory Independence and Political Interference: Evidence from EU Mixed-Ownership Utilities’ Investment and Debt

Carlo Cambini and Laura Rondi

2010.68: Optimal Investment and Financial Strategies under Tax Rate Uncertainty

Alessandro Fedele, Paolo Panteghini and Sergio Vergalli

2010.67: The Economic and Environmental Effects of an EU Ban on Illegal Logging Imports. Insights from a CGE Assessment

Francesco Bosello, Ramiro Parrado and Renato Rosa

2010.66: Context and the VSL: Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the Czech Republic

Anna Alberini and Milan Ščasný

2010.65: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Review of the Changes in the Environment and Natural Resources

Anil Markandya and Wan-Jung Chou

2010.64: The Linkages between Energy Efficiency and Security of Energy Supply in Europe

Andrea Bigano, Ramon Ortiz, Anil Markandya, Emanuela Menichetti and Roberta Pierfederici

2010.63: International Cooperation on Climate Change Adaptation from an Economic Perspective

Kelly C. de Bruin, Rob Dellink and Richard Tol

2010.62: Alternative Paths toward a Low Carbon World

Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro and Massimo Tavoni

2010.61: The Right Amount of Trust

Jeffrey Butler, Paola Giuliano and Luigi Guiso

2010.60: Using the Law to Change the Custom

Gani Aldashev, Imane Chaara, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Zaki Wahhaj

2010.59: Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

2010.58: Social Capital and Political Accountability

Tommaso Nannicini, Andrea Stella, Guido Tabellini and Ugo antonio Troiano

2010.57: Women’s Rights and Development

Raquel Fernández

2010.56: Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Paola Giuliano

2010.55: Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery

Sebastian Galiani, Martín Rossi and Ernesto Schargrodsky

2010.54: ”Thou shalt not covet...”: Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Matteo Cervellati and Paolo Vanin

2010.53: Religious Organizations

Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin

2010.52: Advocatus, et non latro? Testing the Supplier-Induced-Demand Hypothesis for Italian Courts of Justice

Paolo Buonanno and Matteo Galizzi

2010.51: A History of Violence: Testing the ‘Culture of Honor’ in the US South

Pauline Grosjean

2010.50: A Hybrid Approach to the Valuation of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from the European Forests

Helen Ding, Silvia Silvestri, Aline Chiabai and Paulo Augusto Nunes

2010.49: (Anti-) Coordination in Networks

Jaromír Kovářík, Friederike Mengel and José Romero Ciavatto

2010.48: Resistance to Change

James Dow and Enrico Perotti

2010.47: The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Thomas Hellman and Enrico Perotti

2010.46: Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program

Maureen Cropper, Yi Jiang, Anna Alberini and Patrick Baur

2010.45: European Takeover Law: The Case for a Neutral Approach

Luca Enriques

2010.44: Public Security vs. Private Self-Protection: Optimal Taxation and the Social Dynamics of Fear

Angelo Antoci, Pier Luigi Sacco and Mauro Sodini

2010.43: Reinforcing the EU Dialogue with Developing Countries on Climate Change Mitigation

Frank Vöhringer, Alain Haurie, Dabo Guan, Maryse Labriet, Valentina Bosetti, Pryadarshi R. Shukla and Philippe Thalmann

2010.42: What Should We Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D

Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Romain Duval and Massimo Tavoni

2010.41: Scaling up Ecosystem Services Values: Methodology, Applicability and a Case Study

Luke Brander, Andrea Ghermandi, Onno Kuik, Anil Markandya, Paulo Augusto Nunes, Marije Schaafsma and Alfred Wagtendonk

2010.40: Parallel Imports and Innovation in an Emerging Economy

Andrea Mantovani and Alireza Naghavi

2010.39: Rent Seekers in Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace

Kjetil Bjorvatn and Alireza Naghavi

2010.38: What is Different about Government-Controlled Acquirers in Cross-Border Acquisitions?

G. Karolyi and Rose C. Liao

2010.37: Sectoral Targets for Developing Countries: Combining "Common but Differentiated Responsibilities" with "Meaningful participation"

Meriem Hamdi-Cherif, Céline Guivarch and Philippe Quirion

2010.36: How to Design a Border Adjustment for the European Union Emissions Trading System?

Stéphanie Monjon and Philippe Quirion

2010.35: Leadership Cycles

Vincenzo Denicolo' and Piercarlo Zanchettin

2010.34: The U.S. Proposed Carbon Tariffs, WTO Scrutiny and China’s Responses

ZhongXiang Zhang

2010.33: The Role of International Carbon Offsets in a Second-best Climate Policy: A Numerical Evaluation

Enrica De Cian and Massimo Tavoni

2010.32: Climate Policy and the Optimal Balance between Mitigation, Adaptation and Unavoided Damage

Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro and Enrica De Cian

2010.31: “Google it!”Forecasting the US Unemployment Rate with a Google Job Search index

Francesco D’Amuri and Juri Marcucci

2010.30: Monitoring Managers: Does it Matter?

Francesca Cornelli, Zbigniew Kominek and Alexander Ljungqvist

2010.29: Politics and Economics of Second-Best Regulation of Greenhouse Gases: The Importance of Regulatory Credibility

Valentina Bosetti and David G. Victor

2010.28: A Participatory Approach to Assess the Effectiveness of Responses to Cope With Flood Risk

Lucia Ceccato, Valentina Giannini and Carlo Giupponi

2010.27: Waste Generation and Landfill Diversion Dynamics: Decentralised Management and Spatial Effects

Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini and Francesco Nicolli

2010.26: Spatial Development

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2010.25: Returns to Migration, Education, and Externalities in the European Union

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Vassilis Tselios

2010.24: Licences, "Use or Lose" Provisions and the Time of Investment

Michele Moretto and Cesare Dosi

2010.23: Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Jean Tirole and Roland Benabou

2010.22: Adaptation, Mitigation and “Green” R&D to Combat Global Climate Change. Insights From an Empirical Integrated Assessment Exercise

Francesco Bosello

2010.21: Fairness, Credibility and Effectiveness in the Copenhagen Accord: An Economic Assessment

Alice Favero and Enrica De Cian

2010.20: Second-Best Optimal Taxation of Oil and Capital in a Small Open Economy

Alberto Petrucci

2010.19: Capital Malleability and the Macroeconomic Costs of Climate Policy

Elisa Lanzi and Ian Sue Wing

2010.18: Climate Change Meets Trade in Promoting Green Growth: Potential Conflicts and Synergies

ZhongXiang Zhang

2010.17: An Economic Assessment of the Impacts of the MOSE Barriers on Venice Port Activities

Lucia Vergano, Georg Umgiesser and Paulo Augusto Nunes

2010.16: Tourism and Development: A Recent Phenomenon Built on Old (Institutional) Roots?

Francesco Pigliaru, Rinaldo Brau and Adriana Di Liberto

2010.15: A Simple Theory of Predation

Chiara Fumagalli and Massimo Motta

2010.14: Too Much Oil

Reyer Gerlagh

2010.13: Investments and Financial Flows Induced by Climate Mitigation Policies

Emanuele Massetti, Andrea Bastianin and Alice Favero

2010.12: What Drives the International Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies? Empirical Evidence from Patent Data

Matthieu Glachant, Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Yann Ménière

2010.11: Loving Cultural Heritage Private Individual Giving and Prosocial Behavior

Giovanni Signorello, Enrico Bertacchini and Walter Santagata

2010.10: European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services: An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts

Paulo Augusto Nunes, Helen Ding and Sonja STeelucksingh

2010.9: Do Competition and Ownership Matter? Evidence from Local Public Transport in Europe

Marcella Nicolini, Andrea Boitani and Carlo Scarpa

2010.8: Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions about the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion

Paul Sarfo-Mensah and William Oduro

2010.7: Potentials and Limits of Bayesian Networks to Deal with Uncertainty in the Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Policies

Michela Catenacci and Carlo Giupponi

2010.6: Optimal Emission Tax with Endogenous Location Choice of Duopolistic Firms

Masako Ikefuji, Jun-ichi Itaya and Makoto Okamura

2010.5: Profit Sharing under the Threat of Nationalization

Luca Di Corato

2010.4: Modeling Biased Technical Change. Implications for Climate Policy

Enrica De Cian, Carlo Carraro and Lea Nicita

2010.3: Second Best Environmental Policies under Uncertainty

Panos Hatzipanayotou, Panos Hatzipanayotou, Fabio Antoniou and Phoebe Koundouri

2010.2: Tradable Permits vs Ecological Dumping

Panos Hatzipanayotou, Fabio Antoniou and Phoebe Koundouri

2010.1: Migrants’ International Transfers and Educational Expenditure: Empirical Evidence from Albania

Cristina Cattaneo

2009.154: Is There any Scope for Corporatism in Stabilization Policies?

Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Nicola Acocella and Wilfried Pauwels

2009.126: Reallocating Water: An Application of Sequent

Erik Ansink and Carmen Marchiori

2009.125: Neoclassical Growth, Environment and Technological Change: The Environmental Kuznets Curve

Santiago Rubio, Jose Garcia and J.L. Hueso

2009.124: A New Capital Regulation For Large Financial Institutions

Luigi Zingales and Oliver Hart