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Anti-Trust Policy and National Growth: Some Evidence from Italy
Allegra, Elisabetta; Forni, Mario; Grillo, Michele; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
downstream sectors, which often face tough international competition. Such firms lose market share, thus worsening the economic … performance of the country. We try to document the importance of this link between competition problems and growth by analysing … from competition problems perform worse in terms of net exports, export growth and output growth. …
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Environmental Innovation Policy and International Competition
Carraro, Carlo; Siniscalco, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991
competition, Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly) international competition forces the national government to subsidize innovation. The …
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Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data
Braun, Frauke G; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper studies technological change in renewable energies, providing empirical evidence on the determinants of innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy technologies wind and solar across a panel of 21 OECD...
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What Should we Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...
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Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility with no meaningful binding agreement in sight as the global climate regime and...
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The Fossile Episode
Hassler, John; Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
phase. The increased competition for biocarbon during phase 3 and 4 leads to increasing food prices. We provide closed form …
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Very Long-Run Discount Rates
Giglio, Stefano W; Maggiori, Matteo; Ströbel, Johannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We provide direct estimates of how agents trade off immediate costs and uncertain future benefits that occur in the very long run, 100 or more years away. We exploit a unique feature of housing markets in the U.K. and Singapore, where residential property ownership takes the form of either...
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Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa
Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Persson, Torsten; Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that infants were much more likely to die when exposed in utero...
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On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming
Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We propose a dynamic spatial theory to analyze the geographic impact of climate change. Agricultural and manufacturing firms locate on a hemisphere. Trade across locations is costly, firms innovate, and technology diffuses over space. Energy used in production leads to emissions that contribute...
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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Burgess, Robin; Hansen, Matthew; Olken, Benjamin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
with increased deforestation and with lower prices in local wood markets, consistent with a model of Cournot competition …
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