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explain the effects of entry-year electricity prices on subsequent energy intensity. We discuss how this “technology lock …
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technological progress and changes in factor prices. The equilibrium technology is multi-dimensional and not strongly factor …
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incentives with social incentives and find that the bias in technology adoption depends crucially on whether the non …
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that if the technology is already advanced and competition intensifies then firms wouldn't innovate. The dynamic … 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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theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries …This paper studies the origins and consequences of international technology gaps. I develop an endogenous growth model … where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The …
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recessions). Second, we link SBTC to direct measures of information technology investment expenditures and show that these …
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Over the last decades, hours worked per capita have declined substantially in many OECD economies. Using a neoclassical growth model with endogenous work-leisure choice, we assess the role of trend growth slowdown in accounting for the decline in hours worked. In the model, a permanent reduction...
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Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfill them unclear. This leaves room for partly particularly negative interpretations, such as equating the...
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We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and provide a formula to decompose the mechanism. The new insight we provide is that market concentration can be a welfare-relevant feature of market power above and beyond markup...
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This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...
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