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Transition to Clean Technology
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Kerr, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2014
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 …
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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
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