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Harrison, Ann E.; Legros, Patrick; Aghion, Philippe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as...

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors

Rubashkina, Yana; Galeotti, Marzio; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …

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Clean and Dirty International Technology Diffusion

Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses...

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

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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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At Home and Abroad: An Empirical Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion in Energy-Efficient Technologies

Verdolini, Elena; Galeotti, Marzio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper contributes to the induced innovation literature by extending the analysis of supply and demand determinants … of innovation in energy-efficient technologies to account for international knowledge flows and spillovers. In the first … the supply and demand determinants of innovation accounting for international knowledge spillovers. Our results confirm …

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Migration, Cultural Diversity and Innovation: A European Perspective

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … diversity consistently increases the innovation performance of European Countries. …

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both “carbon taxes” and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …

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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits

Jackson, Matthew O.; Aghion, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In this paper we analyze the problem of whether and/or when to replace a leader (agent) when no monetary rewards are available, and it is the leader's competence rather than effort that is being evaluated. The only decisions that the leader takes over time are whether to undertake risky but...

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Optimal Capital Versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth

Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

innovation-led growth into the Chamley-Judd framework, using a Schumpeterian growth model where productivity … on the market size for innovation. At the same time, for a given labor supply, taxing capital also reduces innovation …

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