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margin innovation decision (i.e. whether to conduct innovation) from the intensive margin decision (i.e. how much to innovate … innovation towards REN and away from FF technologies. Yet, we find that these factors have a larger impact on closing the … technology gap through the entry (and exit) of small specialized firms, rather than through large mixed firms' innovation. An …
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This study proposes a new mechanism for the resource curse: crowding-out of innovation due to the existence of an … increase in resources decreases innovation in the formal sector, both income and welfare still go up. Meanwhile, for …
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This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses...
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dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both “carbon taxes” and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …
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energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …
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This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
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technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across … countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement sustainable growth by directing global innovation to the nonpolluting … sector. If nonparticipants drive global innovation, this requires policies relocating clean production to nonparticipants. A …
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Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...
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This paper contributes to the induced innovation literature by extending the analysis of supply and demand determinants … of innovation in energy-efficient technologies to account for international knowledge flows and spillovers. In the first … the supply and demand determinants of innovation accounting for international knowledge spillovers. Our results confirm …
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We present a theory of spatial development. A continuum of locations in a geographic area choose each period how much to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an...
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