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Why Did Air Conditioning Adoption Accelerate Faster Than Predicted? Evidence from Mexico

Davis, Lucas W.; Gertler, Paul J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

A common theme in the vast literature on climate change is the estimation of models using historical data to make predictions many decades into the future. Although there is a large and growing number of these types of studies, researchers rarely return later to check the accuracy of their...

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Innovation and Climate Policy

Popp, David - 2010

Reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change will require dramatic changes in the way that energy is produced and consumed. The cost of technological changes such as alternative energy sources and improved energy efficiency will play a large role in determining the...

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Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Popp, David - 2009

Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...

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The Perils of the Learning Model For Modeling Endogenous Technological Change

Nordhaus, William D. - 2009

Learning or experience curves are widely used to estimate cost functions in manufacturing modeling. They have recently been introduced in policy models of energy and global warming economics to make the process of technological change endogenous. It is not widely appreciated that this is a...

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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies

Perrons, Robert K. - 2020

The challenge of mitigating climate change has focused recent attention on basic scientific research feeding into the development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping processes involving: (1) the production of scientific...

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Lessons from Patents : Using Patents To Measure Technological Change in Environmental Models

Popp, David - 2003

When studying solutions to long-term environmental problems such as climate change, it is important to consider the role that technological change may play. Nonetheless, to date few economic models of climate change explicitly model the link between policy and technological change. There is a...

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ENTICE : Endogenous Technological Change in the DICE Model of Global Warming

Popp, David - 2003

Despite growing empirical evidence of the link between environmental policy and innovation, most economic models of environmental policy treat technology as exogenous. For long-term problems such as climate change, this omission can be significant. In this paper, I modify the DICE model of...

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The Institutional Costs of Adaptation : Agricultural Drainage in the United States

Edwards, Eric C.; Thurman, Walter N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Tile drainage was first demonstrated in the United States in 1835 as a method to adapt agriculture to excessive water … in soils. Subsequently, innovations in coordinated drainage enterprises, engineering, and tile manufacture led to … drainage over large portions of the U.S. Midwest and Southeast. Of the 215 million acres of wetlands estimated to have existed …

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Banking on Technology : Bank Technology Adoption and Its Effects

Jiang, Sheila; Rebucci, Alessandro; Zhang, Gang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We develop and estimate a new model of endogenous growth in bank efficiency and firm productivity in which banks adopt technology embedded in capital goods produced by entrepreneurs, and agents choose whether to become workers or capital-good-producing entrepreneurs. In this framework, bank...

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Simulating Endogenous Global Automation

Benzell, Seth G.; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; LaGarda, Guillermo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper develops a 17-region, 3-skill group, overlapping generations, computable general equilibrium model to evaluate the global consequences of automation. Automation, modeled as capital- and high-skill biased technological change, is endogenous with regions adopting new technologies when...

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