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Fiscal and regulatory instruments for clean technology development in the European Union
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519926
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Innovation and spillovers : evidence from European regions
Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - 2000
The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature. Moreover the intensity of knowledge externalities in generating innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781621
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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383805
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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment
Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022
Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171083
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The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters : price gouging and post-disaster recovery
Noy, Ilan; Noy, Shakked - 2016
ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the … ways in which the discipline approaches the topic of disasters and its ethics is gained not by examining the multitude of … research on the topic of disasters. As such, we choose to focus on two topics: price gouging, and post-disaster economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573935
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What crisis? : taking stock of management researchers' experiences with and views of scholarly misconduct
Hoover, Gary A.; Hopp, Christian - 2017
This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1 …,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by … sees value in replication studies to ensure credibility in empirical research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717154
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Human ethics and virtues : rethinking the homo-economicus model
Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2017
outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782050
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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 (Net Present Value), it considers the managerial flexibility that may be expand the investment opportunity value. However, most R&D investment projects are open to competing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872189
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International energy R&D spillovers and the economics of greenhouse gas atmospheric stabilization
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624058
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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