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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

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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Environmental Policy Design and the Fragmentation of International Markets for Innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - CESifo - 2009

It has long been argued that the implementation of market-based environmental policy instruments such as 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...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries

Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - CESifo - 2008

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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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - CESifo - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens’ preferences for income redistribution. They are …

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Justifying Social Discounting: The Rank-Discounted Utilitarian Approach

Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2010

The discounted utilitarian criterion for infinite horizon social choice has been criticized for treating generations unequally. We propose an extended rank-discounted utilitarian (ERDU) criterion instead. The criterion amounts to discounted utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats...

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Why does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis

Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2010

There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability: A Panel Data Analysis

Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - CESifo - 2014

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental … specification, namely modified EKC (MEKC), we show that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between sustainability and human …. More interestingly, findings from the estimation show that EKC hypothesis, HD and sustainability are crucial to build …

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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 … factors at work in determining the role of institutions to deal with sustainability issues and explores the implications of …

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The Sustainability of Chinese Growth and the Aggregate Factor Substitution Elasticity

Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - CESifo - 2012

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … sustainability of high Chinese growth. …

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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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