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-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects …
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environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … regulation such as technology-based standards. One of the principle reasons for such an assertion is that they give firms greater … database of patent applications from a cross-section of countries evidence is provided for the positive effect of „flexibility …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …
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Policies affecting the cost of energy use provide correct incentives for technology choices only if there is a market …-alone value of having a cost-saving technology in the house. For the two main technologies, electric and district heating, the …
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renewable sources, and encourage energy conservation. To what extent do innovation and energy efficiency (EE) market failures … spillovers and imperfections in the demand for energy efficiency. We conclude that some technology policies, particularly …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …
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