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Title:The signaling effect of gasoline taxes and its distributional implications Author(s):TIEZZI, Silvia; VERDE, Stefano F. EUI affiliated

Date:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/06; Florence School of Regulation; ClimateAbstract:This paper proposes and tests a better defined interpretation of the different responses of gasoline demand to tax changes and to market-related price changes. Namely, the signaling effect of gasoline taxes is one that ...

Title:A meta-analysis on the price elasticity of energy demand Author(s):LABANDEIRA, Xavier EUI affiliated

; LABEAGA, Jose Maria; LÓPEZ-OTERO, XiralDate:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/25; Florence School of Regulation; ClimateAbstract:Price elasticities of energy demand have become increasingly relevant in estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of energy policies or of other events with influence on the prices of energy goods. Since the ...

Title:On the productivity effects of public capital maintenance : evidence from U.S. States Author(s):KALYVITIS, Sarantis; VELLA, EugeniaDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2014/04Abstract:This paper assesses the productivity effects of infrastructure's operations and maintenance (O&M) spending by state and local governments in the 48 contiguous U.S. states over the period 1978-2000. We explicitly account ...

Title:On the Measurement of Welfare, Happiness and Inequality Author(s):RYNKO, MajaDate:2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis addresses welfare measurement issues, with an emphasis on the measurement of happiness and inequality. It contributes to the economic literature in both methodological and empirical terms, with the empirical ...

Title:Are Small Countries Able to set their Own Interest Rates? Assessing the implications of the macroeconomic trilemma Author(s):HERWARTZ, Helmut; ROESTEL, JanDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2010/09Abstract:According to the ’macroeconomic trilemma’ the ability of small economies to pursue an independent monetary policy is jointly determined by country specific foreign exchange (FX) rate flexibility and capital mobility. In ...

Title:Fire and Fuels: CO2 and SO2 Emissions in the Finnish Economy, 1800-2005 Author(s):KUNNAS, JanDate:2009Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2009 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis examines Finland‘s transition from a solar based energy system to a fossil fuel based one, and the environmental consequences of this transition. The period under examination is from the beginning of the 19th ...

Title:Specification tests for the distribution of errors in nonparametric regression: a martingale approach Author(s):MORA, Juan; PEREZ-ALONSO, AliciaDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2007/34Abstract:We discuss how to test whether the distribution of regression errors belongs to a parametric family of continuous distribution functions, making no parametric assumption about the conditional mean or the conditional ...

Title:Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks via Changes in Volatility Author(s):LANNE, Markku; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut EUI affiliated

Date:2006Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2006/23

Title:Differences in Family Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce Author(s):DRONKERS, Jaap; ENGELHARDT, Henriette; TRAPPE, HeikeDate:2002Citation: Demographic Research, 2002, 6, 295-324. Type:ArticleAbstract:The intergenerational transmission of the risk of divorce is a well-known long-term effect of divorce that has been found in many Western societies. Less known is what effect different family policies and divorce laws have ...