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Implications of declining discount rates: Climate Change Policy in the UK

Groom, Ben; Hepburn, Cameron; Koundouri, Phoebe; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Discussions about applied Cost Benefit Analysis are incomplete without the thorny issue of discounting emerging at some point. Indeed, since the calculation of Net Present Values (NPV), and hence the efficiency of a project or policy, hinges so crucially upon the level of the discount rate...

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Stochastic Kaya model and its applications

Hwang, In Chang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper develops a stochastic Kaya model. The elasticity of carbon dioxide emissions with respect to population, per capita GDP, energy efficiency, and fossil fuel dependence is estimated using the panel data of 132 countries from 1960 to 2010. As an application of the stochastic Kaya model,...

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Policy for better Air Quality in Asia: Proposal for a Policy Evaluation Method for four ASEAN Countries.

Hirota, Keiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Four ASEAN countries Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand are facing major air pollution problems due to rapid economic growth, urbanization and motorization. Mortality and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution are believed to be endemic in cities of these countries....

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Information Technology and Transportation: Substitutes or Complements?

Oliver, Atara Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

use such products as substitutes for transportation. Common examples of this substitution are telecommuting, video … transportation, prior research has indicated that the relationship between ICT and transportation is quite complex; at times ICT … ICT expenditures on transportation demand. The analysis indicates that ICT may serve as a substitute for air travel, but …

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Discussão de temas de cenarização para a indústria automóvel para aplicação do método Delphi em Portugal

Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

from the first discussions was preciselly “Mobility: individually atractive and socially sustainable”. Also the IMVP … analysed several scenario topics on the issue of mobility and automotive industry. Those scenario topics are explained and …

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Innovation Process is Facilitated in Virtual Environment of R&D Teams

Shafia, Mohammad Ali; Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment it is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It is widely accepted that innovation can be better achieved by...

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Concurrent Collaboration in Research and Development

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Integration is the essence of current research and development (R&D) activity in many organizations. Integration can be established in various ways depending on the type, size and intricacy in organizational functions and products. Nevertheless, research and development (R&D) has become an...

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Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development, which is a result of research and development (R&D)...

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Services innovation: assimilation, differentiation, inversion and integration

Gallouj, Faïz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This chapter aims to provide a review of the literature on innovation in services and to focus on the analytical strategies carried out in order to fill in the innovation gap in the service economy (i.e. the difference between what the traditional innovation indicators are capable of capturing,...

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Financial Development, Econmic Growth and R&D Cyclical Movement

Fung, Ka Wai Terence; Lau, Chi Keung Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper builds up an endogenous growth model à la Aghion and Howitt (1992) and Boucekkine et al (2005). We assume that R&D firms use only investment good as input, instead of final good as hypothesized in the above two models. We show that investment price will be a negative function of...

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