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Adaptation to climate change and economic growth in developing countries

Millner, Antony; Dietz, Simon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Developing countries are vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, yet there is disagreement about what they should do to protect themselves from antic- ipated damages. In particular, it is unclear what the optimal balance is between investments in traditional productive capital...

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Understanding the adaptation deficit: why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries?

Fankhauser, Samuel; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Poor countries are more heavily affected by extreme weather events and future climate change than rich countries. One of the reasons for this is the so-called adaptation deficit, that is, limits in the ability of poorer countries to adapt. This paper analyses the link between income and...

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Environmental policy and the economic downturn

Bowen, Alex; Stern, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper considers how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. It first explores the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008-09 for environmental policies, focusing in particular on the example of action against climate change. The arguments for and...

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The impact of ‘clean innovation’ on economic growth: evidence from the transport and energy industries

Martin, Ralf; Vaitilingam, Romesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Policies on climate change that encourage 'clean innovation' while displacing 'dirty innovation' could have a positive …

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Read my lips : the political economy of information transmission

Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

The paper studies credible information transmission by governments. A group of heterogenous individuals have to make private investment and labour supply decisions while relying on the government for information about investment returns. The government consists of an elected citizen who chooses...

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Stocks and shocks: a clarification in the debate over price vs. quantity controls for greenhouse gases

Parsons, John E.; Taschini, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We construct two simple examples that help to clarify the role of a key assumption in the analysis of price or quantity controls of greenhouse gases in the presence of uncertain costs. Traditionally much has been made of the fact that greenhouse gases are a stock pollutant, and that therefore...

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Basic research and sequential innovation

Belenzon, Sharon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

problem of underinvestment in basic research is confirmed: spillovers of more general knowledge (and in this respect, more …

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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Government policies to support R&D are predicated on empirical evidence of R&D "spillovers" between firms. But there … are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business … stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general framework showing that technology and product market spillovers have …

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years …. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive … effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a negative business stealing effects from product market rivals. We develop …

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