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Economic policies often involve dynamic interventions, where individuals receive repeated interventions over multiple periods. This dynamics makes past responses informative to predict future responses and ultimate outcomes depend on the history of interventions. Despite these phenomena,...
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agency model to illustrate how voters' gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different … greater gender discrimination …
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If further decarbonization of electricity systems is to continue, a next generation of innovation in transformative … determinants of innovation in this sector to glean insights on how government may support the development and deployment of these … technologies. We argue that policies that were successful at supporting the first wave of renewables innovation may not be …
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increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …
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We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth - one that … exception of Venezuela, significant increases in human capital enable comprehensive wealth to be maintained (and sustainability … per-capita comprehensive wealth …
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This paper considers two central problems in our statistical frameworks which impair the ability to use wealth to … assess economic sustainability or the impacts of economic downturns. Some increases in wealth may reflect increased economic … capacity of the economy. Another major problem in our wealth accounts is the "missing capital" required to explain the marked …
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Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize … our main findings, we find that less than half of the retired elderly in Europe are decumulating their wealth and that the … average wealth accumulation rate of the retired elderly in Europe is positive though relatively moderate (6.6% over a 3-year …
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How much of the economy is focused on protecting, rehabilitating, or managing the environment? To answer this question, we develop a proof-of-concept environmental activity account to quantify the environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) in the United States. Methodologically, we employ a...
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This paper proposes that strong financial, judicial, and labor market institutions provide comparative advantage in clean industries, and thereby improve a country's environmental quality. Five complementary tests support this hypothesis. First, industries that depend on institutions are...
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