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The intensive margin of technology adoption : experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in rural Senegal

Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - 2014

Today 2.6 billion people in developing countries rely on biomass as primary cooking fuel, with profound negative implications for their well-being. Improved biomass cooking stoves are alleged to counteract these adverse effects. This paper evaluates take-up and impacts of low-cost improved...

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One-off subsidies and long-run adoption : experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in Senegal

Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - 2017

Free distribution of a technology can be an effective development policy instrument if its adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Improved cookstoves may be such a case: they generate high environmental and public health returns, but adoption is generally...

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One-off subsidies and long-run adoption : experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in Senegal

Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - 2017

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Improved biomass cooking to fight climate change and poverty : inefficient firewood and charcoal usage contributes massively to global greenhouse gas emissions and causes four mill...

Peters, Jörg - 2015

Relative to other climate protection measures, public investments in the dissemination of improved biomass cooking stoves provide a very effective low cost measure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. More than three billion people in developing countries rely on inefficient cooking stoves...

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Why do households forego high returns from technology adoption : evidence from improved cook stoves in Burkina Faso

Bensch, Gunther; Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - 2014

Around 3 billion people in developing countries rely on woodfuels for their daily cooking needs with profound negative implications for their workload, health, and budget as well as the environment. Improved cookstove (ICS) technologies in many cases appear to be an obvious solution. Despite...

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Combating deforestation? : impacts of improved stove dissemination on charcoal consumption in urban Senegal

Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - 2011

With 2.7 billion people relying on woodfuels for cooking in developing countries, the dissemination of improved cooking stoves (ICS) is frequently considered an effective instrument to combat deforestation particularly in arid countries. This paper evaluates the impacts of an ICS dissemination...

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Inter and intra firm diffusion of ICT in the United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland (CH) : an internationally comparative study based on firm-level data

Battisti, Giuliana; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stoneman, Paul; … - 2005

intra firm diffusion of innovations within as well as across countries. In particular, by using two datasets derived from … independent countryspecific surveys, it undertakes an international comparison of inter and intra firm diffusion of ICT use in the … Switzerland, probably as a result of their differing diffusion stages. Besides, the importance of new organisational and …

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Financial factors and the inter firm diffusion of new technology: a real options model

Stoneman, Paul (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Heterogeneity and change in European financial environments

Stoneman, Paul (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Technological diffusion and the financial environment

Stoneman, Paul (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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