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Human capital formation and global warming mitigation: evidence from an integrated assessment model
Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica de; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009
and it assesses the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies. Results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332969
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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009
investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …. This is especially relevant for China, whose recent and foreseeable trends of investments in innovation are consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266005
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Optimal energy investment and R&D strategies to stabilise Greenhouse Gas atmospheric concentrations
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007
The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264276
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International energy R&D spillovers and the economics of greenhouse gas atmospheric stabilization
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007
economic growth; hence, any better understanding of the process of technological innovation is likely to increase our knowledge …&D international spillovers.The basic questions are as follows. Do knowledge spillovers enhance energy technological innovation in … different regions of the world? Does the speed of innovation increase? Or do free-riding incentives prevail and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265457
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Science vs. Profit in Research. Lessons from the Human Genome Project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315164