The Dynamics of Environmental and Economic Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Modelling Macroeconomic Scenarios: Energy Issues, Economic Performances and Environmental Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. Modelling macroeconomic scenarios: energy issues, economic performances and environmental policy

   1. The GTAP-E: Model Description and Improvements

      • Alessandro Antimiani, Valeria Costantini, Chiara Martini, Alessandro Palma, Maria Cristina Tommasino

      Pages 3-24

   2. Carbon Leakage and Trade Adjustment Policies

      • Alessandro Antimiani, Valeria Costantini, Chiara Martini, Luca Salvatici, Maria Cristina Tommasino

      Pages 25-43

   3. Theoretical Approaches to Dynamic Efficiency in Policy Contexts: The Case of Renewable Electricity

      • Pablo Del Río, Mercedes Bleda

      Pages 45-60

   4. Energy Efficiency Policy in the USA: The Impact of the Industrial Assessment Centres (IAC) Programme and State and Regional Climate Policy Actions

      • Luis Maria Abadie, Ramon Arigoni Ortiz, Ibon Galarraga, Anil Markandya

      Pages 61-82

   5. The Role and Effectiveness of Environmental and Social Regulations in Creating Innovation Offsets and Enhancing Firm Competitiveness

      • Marcus Wagner

      Pages 83-95

4. Environmental Innovation and Competitiveness: Linking Micro, Meso and Macro Analysis in the Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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5. Environmental innovation and competitiveness: linking micro, meso and macro analysis in the dynamics

   1. Implications of Policy Uncertainty for Innovation in Environmental Technologies: The Case of Public R&D Budgets

      • Margarita Kalamova, Nick Johnstone, Ivan Haščič

      Pages 99-116

   2. Eco-Activity and Innovativeness: What Is Their Relation to Environmental Performance in Consumer Firms and Industrial Firms?

      • Nicoline Oehme, René Kemp

      Pages 117-141

   3. Environmental Policy and Induced Technological Change in European Industries

      • Francesco Crespi

      Pages 143-157

   4. Closing the Gap? Dynamic Analyses of Emission Efficiency and Sector Productivity in Europe

      • Giovanni Marin

      Pages 159-177

   5. Waste Technological Dynamics and Policy Effects: Evidence from OECD Patent Data

      • Francesco Nicolli

      Pages 179-201

   6. BioPat: An Investigation Tool for Analysis of Industry Evolution, Technological Paths and Policy Impact in the Biofuels Sector

      • Valeria Costantini, Francesco Crespi, Ylenia Curci

      Pages 203-226

6. Back Matter

   Pages 227-231

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Exploiting econometric techniques aimed at dealing with the dynamics of economic systems and the heterogeneity of agents performances, the volume integrates innovation-based reasoning with ex-post analyses, and presents ex-ante analyses able to evaluate the role of climate change policies by using computable general equilibrium models such as the Global Trade Analysis Project for Energy (GTAP-E). The authors merge and use a range of datasets, including OECD-PATSTAT and STAN, to test novel techniques informed by evolutionary economic theories and the Porter hypothesis. The immediate relevance and applicability of the models will strengthen the hand of policy analysts for whom the dynamic efficiency of environmental policy is a new, high-profile evaluation criterion.

• Dynamic Efficiency
• Environmental Innovation
• Environmental Policy
• Technological Dynamics
• international trade

• , Department of Economics, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

  Valeria Costantini

• , Department of Economics, Institutions an, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

  Massimiliano Mazzanti

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