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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region
Peneder, Michael; Arvanitis, Spyridon; Rammer, Christian; … - 2017
's ecological and economic performance. To identify the causal linkages, we build a system of twelve equations, first tracking the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742717
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Climate change and industrial policy
Naudé, Wim - 2011
This paper explores the implications of climate change for industrial policy (IP). Five implications are discussed, namely the need for international coordination of IPs; for putting human development, and not emission targets, as the overriding objective of low-carbon IP; of stimulating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381960
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Brazilian maritime GDP, social, economic and environmental motivations for its measurement and monitoring
Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Hillebrand, Giovanni Roriz Lyra - 2022
The interaction between the sea and the economy gives this environment enormous strategic importance. The forms of economic exploitation are diverse and include sectors such as energy, fishing, tourism, transportation, biotechnology, and shipbuilding. For Brazil, country with an extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429345
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PIB do mar brasileiro, motivações sociais e econômicas para sua mensuração e seu monitoramento
Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Hillebrand, Giovanni Roriz Lyra - 2022
The interaction between the sea and the economy gives this environment enormous strategic importance. The forms of economic exploitation are diverse and include sectors such as energy, fishing, tourism, transportation, biotechnology, and shipbuilding. For Brazil, country with an extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041050
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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016
's ecological and economic performance. To identify the causal linkages, we build a system of twelve equations, tracking first the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573225
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Two neglected origins of inequality : hierarchical power and care work
Cetrulo, Armanda; Guarascio, Dario; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2024
Are wages really a good proxy of the value of labour? Or, alternatively, do they largely reflect socio-institutional embedded practices of current societies according to which a manager deserves to be paid more than a nurse? This paper studies the determinants of wage remuneration and wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481166
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Race meets bargaining in product development
Karagözoğlu, Emin; Keskin, Kerim; Sağlam, Hüseyin … - 2020
We introduce a model of product development in a firm. Our model describes the process as a multi-stage contest (i.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from the new product using the normatively appealing Nash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165947
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How to set budget caps for competitive grants
De Chiara, Alessandro; Iossa, Elisabetta - 2019
We study how funding agencies should set budget caps for competitive grants. We show that budget caps influence the researchers' submission strategy and, in particular, whether they steer their project choice towards the agencies' favorite projects, and the level of funds they request. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012414878
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Organisational leadership : how much does it matter?
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2022
We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and … organisational performance, and an increase in worker wellbeing. Specifically, the estimates reveal that an increase in leadership … quality by one standard deviation increases organisational performance and worker job satisfaction by 0.27 and 0.73 standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369315
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Industry in Tanzania : performance, prospects, and public policy
Page, John M. - 2016
Tanzania ranks among the leading stars of the 'African growth miracle', but a sector that has been largely absent from the Tanzania success story is industry. Although growth of manufacturing has outpaced economic growth over the past decade, relative to international norms and its ambitious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437700