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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...
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Does China Still Have a Labor Cost Advantage?
Ceglowski, Janet; Golub, Stephen - CESifo - 2011
In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323303
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited in African Countries
Eggoh, Jude C.; Bangaké, Chrysost; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality tests. The countries are divided into two groups:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320785
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'Henni, Hatem - CESifo - 2012
This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645652
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More Similar Firms - More Similar Regions? On the Role of Firm Heterogeneity for Agglomeration
Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2012
economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598915
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The Role of Standards in Eco-innovation: Lessons for Policymakers
Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Werf, Edwin van der - CESifo - 2013
This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we discuss what standards are, how the process of...
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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - CESifo - 2014
since 2002. Using pooled cross-sectional data of 486 registered CDM wind projects in China from 2002 to 2009, we examine the … manufacturers in China’s wind power industry. …
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Determining the Success of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects
Thronicker, Dominique; Lange, Ian A. - CESifo - 2015
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is regarded as one of the most important technologies to mitigate climate change while providing fossil-fuel based energy security. During the past decade, projects in support of the development and deployment of the technology have been initiated across the...
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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?
Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014
Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with...
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A Simple Model of Service Offshoring with Time Zone Differences
Kikuchi, Toru; Long, Ngo Van - CESifo - 2010
We propose a two-country monopolistic competition model of business service offshoring that captures the advantage conferred by time zone differences. We emphasize the role of the entrepreneurs, who decide how to produce business services (i.e., domestic service provision or service offshoring)....
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