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We study the effect of the diffusion of photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of votes obtained by the German Green Party in federal elections. Using both regional and household survey data, we show that households that adopted PV systems became more supportive of the Green Party. We...
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We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
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innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may … be particularly conducive to innovation, and demonstrates that, in general, the optimal policies of the leader should … industrial policies, public investments, and systems of social protection), not only leading to more innovation, but ensuring …
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development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …
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We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...
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We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
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We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
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While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …
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While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain … relating to the economics of innovation and technological change while revisiting the findings of a classic book. Central to … public and private sectors affects innovation. Other essays examine the practice of open research and how the diffusion of …
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