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Entrepreneurship, knowledge, and the industrial revolution

Attar, M. Aykut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs' role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its...

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Sustainable development and international distribution: Theory and application to rainforests as carbon sinks

Mohr, Ernst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1993

A situation is analysed in which two countries negotiate the financing of the incremental costs which accrue if one of them switches from a non-sustainable onto a sustainable development path. The other country's incentive to pay arises as it benefits from the developing country's environmental...

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Innovation and Productivity in European Industries

Pianta, Mario; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining productivity and export success in European...

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Sustainability and international trade in resources

Klepper, Gernot; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

policy may even imply an increased resource use. In this case, a large part of the sustainability objective is met by … substituting domestic resource extraction by imports. When sustainability is modelled in an inter temporal, competitive framework …, the paper shows that the sustainability rule will not lead to a slower rate of extraction of the resource. …

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Cooperation in a resource extraction game

Stähler, Frank; Wagner, Friedrich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

An exhaustible stock of resources may be exploited by N players. An arbitrarily long duration of the game is only possible, if the utility function satisfies certain restrictions at small values R of extraction. We find that stability against unilateral defection occurs if the elasticity of the...

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Optimal Global Carbon Management with Ocean Sequestration

Rickels, Wilfried; Lontzek, Thomas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

We investigate the socially optimal anthropogenic intervention into the global carbon cycle. The limiting factor for this intervention is the accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere, which causes global warming. We apply a simplified two-box model to incorporate aspects of the global carbon...

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Metalliferous Sediments in the Atlantis II Deep – Assessing the Geological and Economic Resource Potential and Legal Constraints

Bertram, Christine; Krätschell, Anna; O'Brien, Killian; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

To date, mineral resources are only mined on land but projected increases in demand have brought the exploration and exploitation of marine mineral resources back into focus. The Atlantis II Deep, located in the central Red Sea between Saudi Arabia and Sudan, is one of the largest marine sulfide...

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The role of sequestration costs with a ceiling on atmospheric carbon concentration

Rickels, Wilfried - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

I investigate the optimal role of carbon sequestration for mitigation in the presence of a ceiling on atmospheric carbon concentration and consider aspects that have so far only been analyzed in the context of a damage function to measure the consequences of climate change for society. I assume...

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Adaptation to Climate Change and Climate Variability: Do It Now or Wait and See?

Narita, Daiju; Quaas, Martin F. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

As growing attention is paid to climate change adaptation as an actual policy issue, the significant meaning of climate variability in adaptation decisions is beginning to be recognized. By using a real option framework, we shed light on how climate change and climate variability affect...

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Umweltpolitik und internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

Schmid, Stefanie U. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

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