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Clean or “Dirty” Energy: Evidence on a Renewable Energy Resource Curse

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  • Gennaioli, Caterina
  • Tavoni, Massimo

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The aim of this paper is to provide an assessment of the potential for resource curse in the renewable energy sector. Taking a political economy approach, we analyze the link between public support schemes for renewable energy and the potential scope for rent seeking and corruption. The insights of a model of political influence by interest groups are tested empirically using a panel data of Italian provinces for the period 1990-2007. We find evidence that a curse exists in the case of wind energy, and specifically that: i) criminal association activity increased more in high-wind provinces and especially after the introduction of a more favourable public policy regime and, ii) the expansion of the wind energy sector has been driven by both the wind level and the quality of political institutions, through their effect on criminal association. The analysis points out that in the presence of poor institutions, efficient market-based policies can have an adverse impact. This has important normative implications especially for countries that are characterized by abundant renewable resources and weak institutions, and are thus more susceptible to the private exploitation of public incentives.

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  • Gennaioli, Caterina & Tavoni, Massimo, 2011. "Clean or “Dirty” Energy: Evidence on a Renewable Energy Resource Curse," Energy: Resources and Markets 115846, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:feemer:115846
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.115846
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    Resource /Energy Economics and Policy;

    JEL classification:

    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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