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Fueling growth when oil peaks: Directed technological change and the limits to efficiency
André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012
While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous growth model that reconciles the current aggregate...
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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008
expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264503
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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010
This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270521
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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare : The Role of Technology
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …
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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in uncertainty...
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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
Using a German firm-level data set, this paper is the first to jointly study the cyclical properties of the cross-sections of firm-level real value added and Solow residual innovations, as well as capital and employment adjustment. We find two new business cycle facts: 1) The cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271782
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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model
Garcίa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Wen, Jean-François - 2004
We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …
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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011
-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275011
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Innovation, trade, and finance
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2011
This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...
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Creative destruction and productive preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291511