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emissions and more green innovation. This comes at the cost of a fall in economic activity, which is borne unequally across …
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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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of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …
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This study investigates how enhanced regulation can promote innovation, focusing on the impacts of a significant … recognized the improvement in drug innovation, as reflected in stock price adjustments post new drug registrations after the … latecomers could boost their innovation potential by adopting specific, effective regulatory practices from frontier countries …
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We estimate the conditional distribution of trade-to-trade price changes using ordered probit, a statistical model for discrete random variables. Such an approach takes into account the fact that transaction price changes occur in discrete increments, typically eighths of a dollar, and occur at...
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Using natural language processing, we identify corporate goals stated in the shareholder letters of the 150 largest companies in the United States from 1955 to 2020. Corporate goals have proliferated, from less than one on average in 1955 to more than 7 in 2020. While in 1955, profit...
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We estimate the causal effect of the diffusion of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of Green Party votes in federal and state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Our estimates are based on instruments that induce exogenous variation in roof appropriateness to PV installation....
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innovation--in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though … US energy sector. The model's quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite …
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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