We ask whether stock returns in France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US are predictable by three instruments: the …

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

We quantify the effect of a significant technological innovation, shale oil development, on asset prices. Using stock …

, droughts and flooding on the innovation of their respective mitigation technologies. Using patent and disaster data, our study … is the first to relate natural disasters to technology innovation, and also presents the first attempt to empirically …

This paper estimates the effect of trade policy during the Great Liberalization of the 1990s on innovation in over 60 … enables us to establish the causal impact of trade policy on innovation. Our results suggest that trade liberalization has … economically significant effects on innovation and, ultimately, on technical change and growth. According to our estimates, about 7 …

person. This paper studies the role of short-term cross-border labor movements for innovation by estimating the recent impact … one fourth as potent for innovation as domestic R&D spending. We show that the technological knowledge of each business … traveler matters by estimating a higher impact for travelers that originate in U.S. states with substantial innovation, such as …