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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Wikipedia: the value of open content production

Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Without the 'spillover effects' of open content production, the growth in Wikipedia editing activity between 2002 and 2010 would have been halved. That is the central finding of research by Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler, which analyses editing data by Wikipedia users to show how content...

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Quantifying Spillovers in Open Source Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia

Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...

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Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market

Calel, Raphael; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

increased low-carbon innovation among regulated firms by as much as 10%, while not crowding out patenting for other technologies …

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