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Laura Abrardi
Bio: Laura Abrardi is an academic researcher from Polytechnic University of Turin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social planner & Incentive. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 18 publications receiving 118 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the existing literature on ultra-fast, fiber-based broadband network, devoting special attention to the results and to the methodology used in the most recent studies.
47 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the optimal tariff structure that could induce a regulated utility to promote energy efficiency by its customers given that it is privately informed about the effectiveness of its effort on demand reduction was studied.
22 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the growing economic literature on Artificial Intelligence and its economic impact on markets and society, focusing on those issues where AI is likely to pose the most imminent challenges for policymakers.
Abstract: The current advances in Artificial Intelligence are likely to have profound economic implications and bring about new trade-offs, thereby posing new challenges from a policymaking point of view. What is the socio-economic impact of these new technologies on growth, employment and inequality? How markets and competition will be affected by AI-powered agents? What are the implications in terms of consumers' privacy? Will algorithms reduce consumers' biases or will they rather originate new ones? This work presents a first attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the growing economic literature on Artificial Intelligence and its economic impact on markets and society, focusing on those issues where AI is likely to pose the most imminent challenges for policymakers.
19 citations
01 Mar 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the main barriers pertaining to consumers' behavior and their policy implications are discussed, and some principles for intervention by regulatory authorities are suggested, suggesting some guidelines for intervention.
Abstract: Consumers’ irrational reluctance to invest in energy efficiency has raised the policymakers’ concern, who started to question the suitability of traditional energy programs. To address behavioral failures, a revision of former policies seems to be called for. We discuss the main barriers pertaining to consumers’ behavior and their policy implications, suggesting some principles for intervention by regulatory authorities.
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12 Oct 2019
407 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, three scenarios are defined, which present different EV charging alternatives, in terms of charging power and charging station ownership and accessibility, and a case study is presented for each scenario and the required charging station usage to have a profitable business model is calculated.
158 citations
TL;DR: This paper conducted a comprehensive literature survey of the papers that examine the link between ICT and economic growth, and found 208 academic papers that were published from 1991 to the cutoff date of October 30, 2018.
120 citations
31 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine brievement quelques implications des donnees numeriques and de la cyber-concurrence for la politique de la concurrence.
Abstract: L'objectif de cet article est d'examiner brievement quelques implications des donnees numeriques et de la « cyber-concurrence » pour la politique de la concurrence. Cela se fait en discutant deux cas…
116 citations
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the investment strategies of different types of Venture Capital investors (VCs) using a unique dataset that includes 1,663 VC first investments made by 846 investors in 737 young high-tech entrepreneurial ventures located in seven European countries between 1994 and 2004.
Abstract: We study the investment strategies of different types of Venture Capital investors (VCs) using a unique dataset that includes 1,663 VC first investments made by 846 investors in 737 young high-tech entrepreneurial ventures located in seven European countries between 1994 and 2004. Using a transformed Balassa index, we analyze the relative investment specialization of independent VCs, corporate VCs, bank-affiliated VCs and governmental VCs along several dimensions that characterize investments (e.g., syndication, duration and exit mode) and investee companies (e.g., industry of operation, age, size, development stage, location and distance from investor's premises at the time of the investment). Our findings indicate that VC types in Europe differ markedly in their patterns of investment specialization, especially governmental VC on the one side and private VC on the other. We compare our findings with evidence from the USA and find some interesting differences, notably regarding independent and governmental VCs.
92 citations