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Access to Modern Energy: a Review of Impact Evaluations
Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as fundamental challenge for development and is likely to be included in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite a strong praise for action and several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162055
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181434
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Light Duty Vehicle Transportation and Global Climate Policy: The Importance of Electric Drive Vehicles
Bosetti, Valentina; Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539703
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Light Duty Vehicle Transportation and Global Climate Policy: The Importance of Electric Drive Vehicles
Bosetti, Valentina; Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541207
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Deviations in Kilometres Travelled: The Impact of Different Mobility Futures on Energy Use and Climate
Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584498
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010
We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583733
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690377
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230829
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670799
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Leadership Cycles
Denicolò, Vincenzo; Zanchettin, Piercarlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467323