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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017
We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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Income per-capita across-countries : stories of catching-up, stagnation, and laggardness
Perilla, Juan Ricardo - 2022
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Energy transitions : directed technical change meets directed extraction
Lemoine, Derek - 2016 - Last revised: June 1, 2016
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Technological innovation, the Kyoto protocol, and open innovation
Kim, Yoomi - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 7 (2021) 3, pp. 1-17
This study investigates the role of technological innovation in increasing the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in … as a measure of innovation are obtained from 54 countries for the period 1990-2015 to verify whether technological … innovation is effective in reducing GHG emissions and whether it has a significant synergetic relationship with the Kyoto …
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Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions
Stern, Nicholas H.; Valero, Anna - 2021
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The nexus between climate negotiations and low-carbon innovation : a geopolitics of renewable energy patents
Bonnet, Clément; Carcanague, Samuel; Hache, Emmanuel; … - 2018
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Technological change, energy, environment and economic growth in Japan
Besstremjannaja, Galina Evgen'evna; Dasher, Richard; … - 2019
important differences between Japanese and US energy firms: lower elasticity of the innovation production function in R …&D expenditure, lower probability of radical innovation, and predominance of dirty technologies in Japan. This may explain our …
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Mirage on the horizon : geoengineering and carbon taxation without commitment
Acemoglu, Daron; Rafey, Will - 2018
We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
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Dynamic determinants of optimal global climate policy
Grubb, Michael; Lange, Rutger-Jan; Cerkez, Nicolas; … - 2023 - Revision: September 2023
-gas emitting systems, such as inertia, induced innovation, and pathdependency, by formulating a compact and analytically tractable …
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Knowledge spillovers from clean innovation : a tradeoff between growth and climate?
Martin, Ralf; Verhoeven, Dennis - 2023
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