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environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break intoexport markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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To what extent does a tax credit affect firms’ R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms’ R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...
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This paper presents a theoretical framework analysing the signalling channel of exchange rate interventions as an informational trigger. We develop an implicit target zone framework with learning in order to model the signalling channel. The theoretical premise of the model is that interventions...
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’ energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from …, we ask what the political reasons for the failure of carbon markets in Japan are and how they can be overcome. We use … Public Choice arguments, but also analyze actual climate policy making in Japan on a case study basis. Thus, on the one hand …
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How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures’ different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan’s opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …
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Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …
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There is an increasing endorsement for the yen’s depreciation as a means to fight the ongoing deflation in Japan. The …
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innovation efforts of indigenous firms, and export expansion of manufactured goods. Furthermore, fast economic growth and active … like Japan, West Germany and the US. …
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