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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity

Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Loeff, … - CESifo - 2014

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

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Euro Area SMEs under Financial Constraints: Belief or Reality?

Artola, Concha; Genre, Veronique - CESifo - 2011

reporting acute problems of access to external finance. Using firm-level replies to the SME survey on access to finance, we use …

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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs: The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework

Torre, Augusto de la; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - CESifo - 2009

foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … and retail sectors. They perceive the SME market as highly profitable, large, and with good prospects. Moreover, banks are …

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Environmental Policy Design and the Fragmentation of International Markets for Innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - CESifo - 2009

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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Generous Sustainability

Gerlagh, Reyer - CESifo - 2014

I define “generous sustainability” as a combination of two conditions: neither instantaneous maximin income nor attainable maximin income should decrease over time. I provide a formal definition and study applications to an AK economy, a Ramsey economy, and a Climate Economy. Generosity is...

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Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons

Musu, Ignazio - CESifo - 2013

When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common-pool resources, economic analysis has proposed government intervention as the only alternative available. Elinor Ostrom showed that this dichotomy between market and government is not...

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Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism in Models of Economic Growth

Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - CESifo - 2009

Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). SDU respects the interests of future generations and resolves...

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Combining Rights and Welfarism: A New Approach to Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives

Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - CESifo - 2012

We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...

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Once Upon a Time Preference - How Rationality and Risk Aversion Change the Rationale for Discounting

Traeger, Christian - CESifo - 2012

The paper develops an axiomatic framework for rational decision making. The von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms give rise to a richer risk attitude than that captured in the standard discounted expected utility model. I derive three models that permit a more comprehensive risk evaluation. These...

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Climate Policy under Sustainable Discounted Utilitarianism

Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2011

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...

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