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Technological Change during the Energy Transition

Meijden, Gerard van der; Smulders, Sjak - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

The energy transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources has important consequences for technological change and resource extraction. We examine these consequences by incorporating a non-renewable resource and an alternative energy source in a market economy model of endogenous...

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From Mine to Coast: Transport Infrastructure and the Direction of Trade in Developing Countries

Bonfatti, Roberto; Poelhekke, Steven - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Mine-related transport infrastructure specializes in connecting mines to the coast, and not so much to neighboring countries. This is most clearly seen in developing countries, whose transport infrastructure was originally designed to facilitate the export of natural resources in colonial times....

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Natural Gas Extraction, Earthquakes and House Prices

Koster, Hans R.A.; Ommeren, Jos N. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

The production of natural gas is strongly increasing around the world. Long-run negative external effects of extraction are understudied and often ignored in social) cost-benefit analyses. One important example is that natural gas extraction leads to soil subsidence and subsequent induced...

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Carbon Lock-In: The Role of Expectations

Meijden, Gerard van der; Smulders, Sjak - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We argue that expectations about future energy use affect the transition from fossil fuels to renewable substitutes, because of an interaction between innovation and resource scarcity. The paper presents a model of directed technical change to study this interaction. We find that resource-saving...

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The Role of Material/Energy Resources and Dematerialisation in Economic Growth Theories

Ayres, Robert U.; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

The nature of energy and material resources in an endogenous growththeory framework isclarified. This involves three modifications of the conventionaltheory. Firstly, multiple feedbackmechanisms or “growth engines” are identified. Secondly, a productionfunction distinguishesbetween resource...

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Education, Growth and Income Inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...

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On Taxation in a Two-Sector Endogenous Growth Model with Endogenous Labor Supply

Hek, Paul A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

theeffects of taxation - including income taxation, capital incometaxation and labor income taxation - distinguishes between … incometaxation, where capital and labor income are taxed equally, theresulting effect on the growth rate is negative. The … contributionof endogenous leisure is confined to reducing or increasing thesize of the effect on the growth rate. If only capital …

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Crowding Perception in a Tourist City: A Question of Preference

Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Two main topics are analysed in this paper: a crowding model for an urban destination is tested by the use of a binary logistic model in order to identify the variables influencing crowding perception; and the inherent negativity of the crowding concept, as is often assumed, is examined through...

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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

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