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Do the sovereign wealth funds of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan promote the sustainable use of government oil revenues? We review the operational rules and performance of the two funds and compare them to Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global. The key challenges are to stabilize government...
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Quantitative models for climate policy modeling differ in the production structure used and in the sizes of the elasticities of substitution. The empirical foundation for both is generally lacking. This paper estimates the parameters of two-level CES production functions with capital, labour and...
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systems development in China and India. The analysis uses a framework that harmonizes baseline developments and soft … convergence of per capita CO2 emissions with emissions trading. Economic and energy implications for China and India vary across … nuclear energy. Concerning economic impacts China bears in general a higher cost than India, as China benefits less from …
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corporate patenting activities in China as found in the previous literature for Western economies. In China, however, these …
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This paper investigates the role of personal relationships for doing business in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China … describes the institutional environment for doing business in China, and in the PRD in particular. Third, it uses data obtained … governance structures) for companies’ production as well as innovation activities. The results confirm the importance of personal …
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different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also … investigates whether companies in the PRD in China tend to innovate in a similar way as companies in the Asian Newly Industrialised … innovation sales and to create new knowledge qualified for patenting. In addition to own R&D activities, they rely on sourcing …
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This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … China, using a more recent provincial dataset and more sophisticated panel data estimation techniques than previous studies … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external …
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an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …
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This paper presents a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the analysis of environmental policies towards mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the class of static, trade-focussed models along the lines...
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This study attempts a numerical simulation of potential CCS (carbon dioxide capture and storage) use by using a modified version of the DICE (Dynamic Integrated model on Climate and Economy) model (Nordhaus, 1994; Nordhaus and Boyer, 2000). In DICE, CO2 emissions are controlled to the extent in...
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