Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and development by considering it as a source of “intrinsic...

The paper reviews urban transport policies in Italian cities and their impact on the concentration of NO2 and PM10. Using parametric and non-parametric techniques, it finds no significant effect of the policy actions currently implemented. Further, it finds evidence of a weak positive impact of...

The aim of this paper is to present an alternative methodology for discounting far distant future externalities generated by an investment project; time-declining discount rates. First I present the experimental evidence on Individuals' time-inconsistency. Second I consider the theoretical...

For many governments enacting green policies is a priority, but these often entail substantial and uneven costs on citizens. How does the introduction of green policies affect voting? We study this question in the context of a major ban on polluting cars introduced in Milan. The policy was...

In recent years a growing body of literature has begun to consider the possible presence of path dependence in the development processes of countries. This phenomenon has always been recognized in regional and urban studies because the path of development almost naturally follows a...

While the existing literature on the economic effects of climate change has mainly focused on temperature and rainfall variations, the impacts of aridification have been often overlooked. Here, we examine the effects of aridification (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration)...