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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945141
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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Quantifying Spillovers in Open Source Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780794
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Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market
Calel, Raphael; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
increased low-carbon innovation among regulated firms by as much as 10%, while not crowding out patenting for other technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612941
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Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2019
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900520
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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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