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sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more … than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without …
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environmental and innovation policies. The big size of the needed investments in a context of limited financial resources asks for a …
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I build a quantitative model of economic growth that can be used to evaluate the impact of environmental policy interventions on final-use energy consumption, an important driver of carbon emissions. In the model, energy demand is driven by directed technical change. Energy supply is subject to...
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point. Such a point typically exists because of the finiteness of nedds. It is also shown that if individual creativity is …
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This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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We derive policy rules for a highly aggregated fossil-based world economy with two competing stochastic thresholds or …
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This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while … outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to …
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terms of foreign exchange market dynamics. An implementable financial stress index (FSI) is created and then used to … currencies) and we show that such an index has potential value in protecting a portfolio against loss during periods of stress …
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We formulate a simple theoretical model of a banking industry that we use to identify and construct theory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from "banking crisis" (BC) indicators employed in many empirical studies, which are constructed using primarily...
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