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Should we give up after Solyndra? : optimal technology R&D portfolios under uncertainty
Webster, Mort; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Popp, David; … - 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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Legal institutions, innovation and growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal … excessive (greater than first-best) R&D investment and output growth. -- legal system ; commitment ; flexibility ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153886
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Harnessing windfall revenues : optimal policies for resource-rich developing economies
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Venables, Anthony - 2009
A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...
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Nature, power, and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001
This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and presents some new results. The principal reasons why resource-based production can inhibit economic growth over long periods are traced to the Dutch disease, neglect of education,...
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A spatial approach to energy economics
Moreno Cruz, Juan; Taylor, Michael Scott - 2013
We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724034
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Prices vs. quantities and the intertemporal dynamics of the climate rent
Kalkuhl, Matthias; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2010
This paper provides a formal survey of price and quantity instruments for mitigating global warming. We explicitly consider policies' impact on the incentives of resource owners who maximize their profits intertemporally. We focus on the informational and commitment requirements of the...
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Modeling fluctuations in the global demand for commodities
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with unexpected fluctuations in global real economic...
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A strategic R&D investment with flexible development time in real option game analysis
Villani, Giovanni - 2009
The real option theory provides a useful tool to evaluate an R&D investment under uncertainty because, unlike the NPV …. -- American Exchange options ; game theory ; Montecarlo simulation ; R&D ; information revelation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872189
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Outsourcing in contests
Meland, Frode (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2006
We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301026
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The monopolistic polluter under environmental liability law : incentives for abatement and R&D
Endres, Alfred; Friehe, Tim - 2011
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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