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Time series properties of the renewable energy diffusion process : implications for energy policy design and assessment

Basher, Syed Abul; Masini, Andrea; Aflaki, Sam - 2014

Confronted by increasingly tight budgets and a broad range of alternative options, policy makers need empirical methods to evaluate the effectiveness of policies aimed at supporting the diffusion of renewable energy sources (RES). Rigorous empirical studies of renewable energy policy...

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Does economic growth matter? : technology-push, demand-pull and endogenous drivers of innovation in the renewable energy industry

Aflaki, Sam; Basher, Syed Abul; Masini, Andrea - 2014

catalyst of environmental innovation. We apply this perspective to study the diffusion of renewable energy (RE) technologies in …

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Political activism and firm innovation

Ovtchinnikov, Alexei V.; Reza, Syed Walid; Wu, Yanhui - 2014

Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

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Améliorer l'efficience de l'investissement public en France

Guérin, Pierre - 2019

recherche et de l’innovation pour permettre à la France de respecter ses engagements nationaux et internationaux et garantir une …

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Judgment aggregation theory can entail new social choice results

Maniquet, François; Mongin, Philippe - 2014

Judgment (or logical) aggregation theory is logically more powerful than social choice theory and has been put to use to recover some classic results of this field. Whether it could also enrich it with genuinely new results is still controversial. To support a positive answer, we prove a social...

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Do M&A lawsuits discipline managers' investment behavior?

Bourveau, Thomas; Brochet, François; Michael, Spira, Sven - 2014

Using securities lawsuits related to M&A as an industry shock, we examine whether litigation risk acts as an external governance mechanism by disciplining managers' investment decisions. In the two years following an M&A lawsuit (a lawsuit where plaintiffs allege that the firm hid poor...

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Accounting quality and debt concentration : evidence from internal control weakness disclosures

Li, Ningzhong; Lou, Yun; Otto, Clemens A.; Moerman, … - 2014

We examine the relation between accounting quality and debt concentration in corporate capital structures (i.e., firms' tendency to rely predominantly on only a few types of debt). Motivated by theoretical and empirical research that supports a strong link between debt concentration and...

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Rethinking nudges

Mongin, Philippe; Cozic, Mikaël - 2014

Nudge is a semantically multifarious concept that originates in Thaler and Sunstein's (2008) popular eponymous book. In one of its senses, it is a policy for redirecting an agent's choices by only slightly altering his choice conditions, in another sense, it is concerned with bounded rationality...

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Social preference and social welfare under risk and uncertainty

Mongin, Philippe; Pivato, Marcus - 2015

This handbook chapter covers the existing theoretical literature on social preference and social welfare under risk (i.e., when probability values enter the data of the situation) and uncertainty (i.e., when this is not the case and only subjective probability assessments can be formed). Section...

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Establishing relationships with new suppliers having distant knowledge to target discontinuous innovation

Mahmoud-Jouini, Sihem Ben; Charue-Duboc, Florence - 2015

innovation (DI). Some authors suggest that DI require leveraging knowledge from a selection of familiar and trustful suppliers …

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