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Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz; van der Loeff, Sybrand Schim - 2008

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms' decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down,...

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Banking permits: economic efficiency and distributional effects

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele - 2008

Most analyses of the Kyoto flexibility mechanisms focus on the cost effectiveness of "where" flexibility (e.g. by showing that mitigation costs are lower in a global permit market than in regional markets or in permit markets confined to Annex 1 countries). Less attention has been devoted to...

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Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements: should action in the EU and US be postponed?

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2008

This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2010

perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of … individual labor-market participation under uncertainty, we predict that higher levels of perceived fairness cause higher levels …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

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