Andrea Bigano

CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

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Richard S.J. Tol

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Anil Markandya

Basque Centre for Climate Change

Anna Alberini

University of Maryland, College Park

Jacqueline M. Hamilton

McGill University

Francesco Bosello

CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

Fabio Sferra

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Roberto Roson

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Roberta Pierfederici

Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales

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Milan Ščasný

Charles University

Mariaester Cassinelli

Central Maine Community College

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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

National Bureau of Economic Research

CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

University of Milan

Central Maine Community College

Centre for Economic Policy Research

Bocconi University

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Eni (Italy)

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Economy-wide impacts of climate change: a joint analysis for sea level rise and tourism

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (2008)

Andrea Bigano Francesco Bosello Roberto Roson Richard S.J. Tol

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10.1007/s11027-007-9139-9

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Households WTP for the reliability of gas supply

Wan-Jung Chou Andrea Bigano Alistair Hunt Stéphane La Branche Anil Markandya

The security of natural gas supply is an important issue for all EU countries due to the regionA¢Â€Â™s heavy dependence on imported supply sources and in light of energy demand for gas that is continuously increasing. Discussions have emphasised strategies for securing the supply at the macro level, e.g. diversification in supply sources, increase in storage capacity, etc. By contrast, consumersA¢Â€Â™ demand for the reliability of gas supply is rarely investigated. Hence this study was conducted to examine the economic implications associated with the security of gas supply directly to domestic consumers. Based on the choice experiment approach, household surveys were conducted in France, Italy and the UK. The results confirmed that the degree of the economic impact of a disruption of gas supply to domestic consumers was a function of the duration of a supply disruption and the season in which a supply cut would take place, as well as other preferences of consumers. The willingness to pay to secure per unit of gas consumption, or alternatively the costs of gas unsupplied, was estimated at between A¢Â‚Â¬2.65/cubic metre and A¢Â‚Â¬41.48/cubic metre across three different European countries.

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10.22004/ag.econ.115740

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

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (2011)

Andrea Bigano Ramón Arigoni Ortiz Anil Markandya Emanuela Menichetti Roberta Pierfederici

Major contemporary issues and debates relating to the sustainable use of energy are addressed in this far-reaching Handbook. The contributing authors discuss the ongoing debates about sustainability and energy use, energy economics, renewable energy, efficiency and climate policy.

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10.4337/9780857936387.00010

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The Opening of the European Electricity Market and Environmental Policy: Does the Degree of Competition Matter?

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2004)

Andrea Bigano Stef Proost

This paper studies the relevance of strategic trade effects in the environmental policy for the European electricity sector. The production, investment and trade of electricity are modelled for four European countries. Three market regimes are distinguished: perfect competition, price regulation and Cournot competition. The model is used to examine the effect of the degree of competition on the state of the environment and to study the strategic trade effects of unilateral environmental policies.

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

SSRN Electronic Journal (2010)

Andrea Bigano Ramón Arigoni Ortiz Anil Markandya Emanuela Menichetti Roberta Pierfederici

It can be argued that one way to reduce the dependence from external energy sources, is simply to reduce the demand for energy. Energy savings may thus be considered a policy priority when concerns for energy security are particularly strong. Drawing on an original econometric approach, we check whether policies and measures that affect indicators of energy efficiency performance have an analogous effect on security of supply indicators, both at the whole economy level and within the main sectors of energy use in the EU 15 countries and Norway. Our analyses show that the indicators studied are affected by a number of policies and measures; however very few of them seem able to tackle effectively and simultaneously, energy efficiency, carbon efficiency and energy security. The main lesson to be drawn from this analysis is therefore that there is a number of energy efficiency policies in the EU that do work, but there is no silver bullet able to successfully address different policy objectives. Taking a more general perspective, what seems to work is the policy mix rather than this or that policy in insulation.

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10.2139/ssrn.1625756

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Predicting the Probability of Long-Term Unemployment in Ireland Using Administrative Data

Andrea Bigano Richard S.J. Tol

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Efficienza Energetica. Tendenze e Prospettive

Andrea Bigano Alessandro Lanza Matteo Manera Michele Plotegher Fabio Sferra

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A general equilibrium analysis of climate change impacts on tourism

Tourism Management (2005)

Maria Berrittella Andrea Bigano Roberto Roson Richard S.J. Tol

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10.1016/j.tourman.2005.05.002

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Environmental Dumping, Transboundary Pollution And Asymmetric Information, Some Insights For The Environmental Regulation Of The European Electricity Market

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2001)

Andrea Bigano

In this paper we extend a model by A. Ulph (1997) on the relationship between free trade agreements, environmental regulation and trade under imperfect competition. Ulph's model focused on the effectiveness of harmonisation policies against ecological dumping. It turned out that harmonised policies are rarely optimal under perfect information, but some rationale for them is granted when asymmetric information between the Commission and national governments is considered. This paper analyses two extensions of that model: transboundary pollution and the inclusion of consumer's surplus. Our interest in these issues rests in their importance for the environmental regulation of the European electricity sector, where imperfect competition can be expected to prevail even after the opening of the Single Market. Allowing for consumers' surplus has a very limited impact on Ulph's conclusions, but considering transboundary pollution has important consequences. Under perfect information, it makes harmonisation a much more attractive option. Under asymmetric information, it affects the governments' incentives to misreport, making them stronger and changing the kind of report the Commission should be wary of, it calls for a much less differentiated treatment of the countries, and makes delegating the regulatory power to the Commission a more attractive option than acting non co-operatively.

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The opening of the European electricity market and environmental policy: does the degree of competition matter?Keywords: Electricity, Trade and the Environment

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2003)

Andrea Bigano Stef Proost

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