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The Perverse Impact of Calling for Energy Conservation

Holladay, J. Scott - 2014

In periods of high energy demand, utilities frequently issue "emergency" appeals for conservation over peak hours to reduce brownout risk. We estimate the impact of such appeals using high-frequency data on actual and forecasted electricity generation, pollutant emission measures, and real-time...

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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008

Shen, Keting - 2015

's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …

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The rate and direction of inventive activity revisited

Lerner, Joshua (contributor); Stern, Scott (contributor) - 2012

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26th International Seminar on Macroeconomics : [which took place in Barcelona on June 13 - 14, 2003 ..., organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research ...]

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi (contributor) - International Seminar on Macroeconomics <26, 2003, … - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005) 5, pp. 967-1057

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International Technology Diffusion

Keller, Wolfgang - 2001

I discuss the concept and empirical importance of international technology diffusion from the point of view of recent work on endogenous technological change. In this literature, technology is viewed as technological knowledge. I first review the major concepts, and how international technology...

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The Economics of Has-Beens

MacDonald, Glenn - 2001

Evolution of technology causes human capital to become obsolete. We study this phenomenon in an overlapping generations setting, assuming it is hard to predict how technology will evolve, and that older workers find updating uneconomic. Among our results is the proposition that (under certain...

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Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron - 2001

For many problems in macroeconomics, development economics, labor economics, and international trade, whether technical change is biased towards particular factors is of central importance. This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the forces that shape these biases. There are two major...

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Vintage Organization Capital

Jovanovic, Boyan - 2001

We study 114 years of U.S. stock market data and find That there are large cohort effects in stock prices, effects that we label 'organization capital,' That cohort effects grew at a rate of 1.75% per year, That the debt-equity ratio of all vintages declined, That three big technological waves...

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Technological Change, the Labor Market and the Stock Market

Manuelli, Rodolfo E. - 2000

This paper presents a model in which a partially anticipated technological shock results, in the short-run, in lower investment and higher unemployment. Because of the expectation of future lower profits, the market value of existing firms --and the wages they pay-- decrease before the...

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Technological Change and the Environment

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2000

theory and empirical evidence of induced innovation and the related literature on the effects of environmental policy on the … creation of new, environmentally friendly technology; the theory and empirics of environmental issues related to technology …

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