"Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

Das Ziel dieser Dissertation ist es, den Zusammenhang zwischen Grundlagenforschung und Wirtschaftswachstum analytisch zu untersuchen und dabei zentrale wirtschaftspolitische Fragestellungen zu erörtern. Für unsere Analysen werden innovationsgetriebene Wachstumsmodelle herangezogen, welche...

Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) couple representations of the natural climate system with models of the global economy to evaluate climate and energy policies. Such models are currently used to derive the benefits of carbon mitigation policies through estimates of the social cost of carbon...