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According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to … the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on … 1979-2003. Results show no evidence of a positive effect of competition growing with the proximity to the frontier. Two …
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competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is … flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly. Intuitively …, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …
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results known in static frameworks. First, more competition pushes Neck and Neck firms to advertise more to attract a larger …
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Innovation is the major instigator in competitive industry. The competition for innovation is traditionally analyzed … of Boone (2001) in order to determine the choice of positioning in a context of cumulative innovation. Thus, taking into … (called first mover) to implement cumulative innovation in order to maintain its position in spite of the investments of …
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This paper examines the relationship between environmental policy and growth when green preferences are endogenously determined by education and pollution. The government can implement a tax on pollution and recycle the revenue in public pollution abatement and/or education subsidy (influencing...
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Studies of the stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs) assumed a benevolent government who maximizes social welfare. The aim of our paper is to develop a theoretical framework in which the Governement's decisions are influenced by green and producer lobbies. To this end, we...
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International environmental agreements (IEAs) are increasingly important in a globalized economy. The aim of our paper is study the effect of political pressure groups-lobbies on the size and stability of IEAs. To this purpose we use the framework of two-level games to explain how national...
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Simultaneity between commitment periods (2008-2012) of both International and European Emissions Trading schemes may generate distortions in terms of burden distribution among sectors. There will be two levels of trading (a country and an entity level), which both need to be consistent with one...
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a political economy perspective. We consider an endogenous growth economy, where growth generates pollution and a deterioration of the environment. Public expenditures may either be...
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We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on individual optimal choices. In this framework, the effects of environmental taxation are not limited to the traditional negative crowding-out and positive productivity effects. We...
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