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The Monopolistic Polluter Under Environmental Liability Law : Incentives for Abatement and R&D

Endres, Alfred - 2013

This paper analyzes the output, abatement, and investment decisions made by a monopolistic polluter under environmental liability law. The model applied considers both integrated and end-of-pipe abatement technologies. We find that in the case of fixed technology, in many instances negligence...

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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth

Anderlini, Luca - 2014

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex-ante) legal system and a flexible one (law set after observing current technology). The flexible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at...

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International R&D Spillovers and Marginal Social Returns on R&D

Ogawa, Kazuo - 2017

We analyze the impact of international R&D spillovers on recipient countries in terms of social and private returns. We divide the aggregate R&D stock by the business, government and education sectors and examine the impact on Total Factor Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D...

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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists

Rauber, Michael - 2006

research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …

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Outsourcing in Contests

Meland, Frode - 2006

We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research …

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Should We Give Up After Solyndra? Optimal Technology R&D Portfolios Under Uncertainty

Webster, Mort - 2015

Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...

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Fiscal and Regulatory Instruments for Clean Technology Development in the European Union

Dechezlepretre, Antoine - 2015

This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...

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International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization

Bosetti, Valentina - 2014

It is widely recognized that technological change has the potential to reduce GHG emissions without compromising economic growth; hence, any better understanding of the process of technological innovation is likely to increase our knowledge of mitigation possibilities and costs. This paper...

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Competition between State Universities

Grazzini, Lisa - 2011

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The …

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Competition in Funding Higher Education

Eckwert, Bernhard - 2012

In higher education pure credit market funding leads to underinvestment while income-contingent loans funding tends to produce overinvestment. We analyze whether a market structure in which both funding schemes coexist and compete against each other might restore efficiency of the educational...

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