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Is the New Economy a Useful Concept ?
Paulré, Bernard - HAL - 2000
the evolution of two different forms of productivity (the productivity of labour and total factor productivity … theoretical underpinnings for most debates on the origins of the particular economic growth and productivity gains that have taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793473
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Differentiated management of GM diffusion in China: Further hampering the self-sufficiency in cereal production?
Fok, Michel; Liang, Weili; Wang, Guiyan; Wu, Yuhong - HAL - 2004
China is a big country in terms of biotech achievements. It is also a rare country demonstrating crop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793327
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Taux de change réel et productivité en Chine
Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont; Hua, Ping - HAL - 2011
This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805933
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Overcoming inertia: insights from evolutionary economics into improved energy and climate policy
Lazaric, Nathalie; Maréchal, Kevin - HAL - 2010
The mainstream view in economics has been a key factor in designing climate policies. Given that the controversy over the “efficiency paradox” has shown that mainstream economics is not neutral in the way it deals with climate change, the purpose of this paper is to investigate what insights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791603
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Mitigation strategies and energy technology learning: an assessment with the POLES model
Criqui, Patrick; Mima, Silvana; Menanteau, Philippe; … - HAL - 2014
This paper explores various dimensions of the learning process for low-carbon technologies under different mitigation scenarios. It uses the POLES model, which addresses learning as an endogenous phenomenon with learning curves, and a set of scenarios developed as part of the AMPERE project. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780807
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The economics of changing course: implications of adaptability and inertia for optimal climate policy.
Grubb, Michael; Thierry, Chapuis; Ha-Duong, Minh - HAL - 1995
This paper reviews evidence that energy technologies and systems adapt over time to accomodate external pressures: that technical innovation and systemic change in the energy sector is largely induced by need, and restrained by potentially large transitional costs. A simple integrated model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791872
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Prospects for the hydrogen transition based on the network economic approach : Insights from the electricity and gas experience in Europe
Bento, Nuno - HAL - 2007
This paper aims to investigate the transition to a new energy system based on hydrogen in the European liberalized framework. After analyzing the literature on the hydrogen infrastructure needs in Europe, we estimate the size and scope of the transition challenge.We take the theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792179
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Entrepreneurship turnover and endogenous returns to ability
Crifo, Patricia; Sami, Hind - HAL - 2008
This paper proposes a model of entrepreneurial turnover highlighting a non-monotone relationship between technological change and ability-biased sorting into entrepreneurial types. Entrepreneurial decisions are examined in a two-stage model under uncertainty in which entrepreneurs decide to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792589
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New technologies and firm organization : the case of electronic traceability systems in French agribusiness
Galliano, Danielle; Orozco, Luis - HAL - 2013
This paper considers the relationship between the adoption of electronic traceability systems (ETSs) and the organization of firms. More precisely, it analyzes the respective roles of a firm's organizational structure, and organizational changes, in the process of ETS adoption in agribusiness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898917
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Routinization-Biased Technical Change, Globalization and Labor Market Polarization: Does Theory Fit the Facts?
Jung, Jaewon; Mercenier, Jean - HAL - 2010
There is now ample evidence that jobs and wages have been polarizing at the extremes of the skill distribution since the early 90s. Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) have suggested that this might be due to technology substituting more easily for labor in performing routine rather than non-routine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899915