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Invention and transfer of climate change-mitigation technologies: A global analysis

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; Hascic, Ivan - HAL - 2011

This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....

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Entry mode choice and target firm selection: private and collective incentive analysis

Zhao, Kai - HAL - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to formalize the choices of market entry strategy (Export Vs Greenﬁeld investment Vs Cross … export credible threats. If greenﬁeld FDI is viable, entering ﬁrm prefers acquiring the low-productivity ﬁrm, when the …, there is always the ambiguity between the foreign ﬁrm's preference and the government's judgment. If export entry option is …

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Intra-firm and arm's length trade: how distance matters?

Bombarda, Pamela - HAL - 2011

Multinational and exporting firms play a key role in trade patterns. To highlight the importance of intra-firm trade in share of world trade, this paper develops a model of trade and intra-firm trade with heterogeneous firms. In this set up, trade costs apply to both exports and multinational...

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Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Data (1992 - 2008)

Chen, Jinzhao - HAL - 2012

This paper studies the convergence, and the role of internal real exchange rate on economic growth in the Chinese provincial level. Using informal growth equation à la Barro [1991] and dynamic panel data estimation, we find conditional convergence among the coastal provinces and among inland...

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The Great Happiness Moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...

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Economic Growth Evens-Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2014

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...

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International Financial Integration and Economic Growth: New Evidence on Threshold Effects

Chen, Jinzhao; Quang, Thérèse - HAL - 2012

Recent research highlights that countries differ with respect to their experience with capital flows and do not systematically gain from capital account liberalization. This paper is related to the empirical literature that investigates the particular conditions under which international...

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Dynamic analysis of bankruptcy and economic waves

Peaucelle, Irina - HAL - 2005

The procedures presented in this paper provide a dynamic apparatus of crediting the industrial operating systems with the assignment to avoid their correlated defaulting, to conserve general safety and soundness and improve its ability to serve as a source for sustainable growth for economy. The...

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Distribution and Growth in France (1982-2006): A Cointegrated VAR Approach

Allain, Olivier; Canry, Nicolas - HAL - 2007

In this article, we propose a simple Post Keynesian model so as to test whether French economy is wage or profit-led i.e. whether a wage share increase has a negative or positive impact on economic growth. In that perspective, we estimate econometrically the three behaviour equations of our...

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Distributed Lag Models and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cameroon

Fouda, Boniface Bounoung - HAL - 2010

This paper studies the intertemporal effects of various economic variables on the cameroonian growth. Using a Geometric Lag Model, we find out that 50% of the total effect of variables used is accomplished in less than half of a year. When we employ a Polynomial Distributed Lag, we find out that...

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