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Digital Goods and the New Economy
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067419
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The Environment and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365645
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Matching Demand and Supply in a Weightless Economy: Market-Driven Creativity With and Without IPRs
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Many cultural products have the same non-rival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical … creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498130
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Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: The Dynamic Impact of Unilateral Environmental Policies
Hemous, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper builds a two-country (North, South), two-sector (polluting, nonpolluting) trade model with directed technical change, examining whether unilateral environmental policies can ensure sustainable growth. The polluting good is produced with a clean and a dirty input. I show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084402
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Long-term Relationships: Static Gains and Dynamic Inefficiencies
Hemous, David; Olsen, Morten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
contractible or when we preclude cooperation in long-term relationships, (ii) the rate of innovation in the cooperative equilibrium … period). In that case, for sufficiently slow diffusion, the innovation rate in the cooperative equilibrium may be higher than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201353