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The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...
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between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …
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between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …
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This paper proposes three propositions for the future of European industrial policy, based on a discussion of the Report 'An Agenda for a Growing Europe' (Sapir at al, 2004). My first proposition is that the growth gap between Us and Eu indeed exists, it is not a statistical artefact, in spite...
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Understanding technological change is of critical importance to marketers, as it bears new markets, new brands, new customers, and new market leaders. This paper examines the deviation among reviews of a technology’s performance and its consequences for inferences on technology evolution...
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Achieving the objective of making the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy is not an easy task, as it requires increasing levels of collaboration between academics and policy-makers. The Sapir Report (2004) represents an important step in this direction,...
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Environmental policy instruments have an impact on the incentives to invest in environmental R&D and this link should deserve careful consideration when introducing new instruments. Some authors argue that environmental taxes and tradable permits have rather comparable impacts on environmental...
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This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research … and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the Pigouvian level, independent of innovation …. However, with finite patent lifetime, optimal innovation policy depends on the stage of the environmental problem. In the …
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the interaction between environmental taxes and innovation externalities in a dynamic economy and prove policy equivalence … directly linked to the source of technological innovation. Arguments for early action in LbD models carry over to a second …
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on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …
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