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sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by knowledge … spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … only influential in the case of wind technology. We also find evidence that public R&D stimulates innovation, particularly …
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more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …
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environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …
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We estimate an aggregate production function with constant elasticity of substitution between energy and a capital/labor composite using U.S. data. The implied measure of energy-saving technical change appears to respond strongly to the oil-price shocks in the 1970s and has a negative medium-run...
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offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked … money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group …, mostly because children moved savings from home to school. We observed few other impacts. We do find that financial education …
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expenditure. We find support for these predictions in three field experiments that randomly assign reminders to new savings …
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between factor- and personal-income distribution are studied in the light of existing analytic results from the precautionary-savings … literature, and by numerical solution experiments. Aggregate savings are an increasing function of non-accumulated income …
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savings, investment, and labour supply in neoclassical models, and to the rate of unemployment in job search models. These …
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This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to …), our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between foreign-born and German-born individuals. These … the determinants of immigrants’ savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …
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to exist. It also predicts where formal insurance is likely to flourish: insurance groups that hold savings become more … Ethiopian funeral insurance groups and their members to motivate and test our model. Those which hold savings and collect …
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