Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 188
Cover Image
Under/over-investment and early renegotiation in public-private partnerships
Danau, Daniel; Vinella, Annalisa - 2019
We consider a public-private partnership in an infrastructure project, which requires specialised expertise during the construction stage for the infrastructure to operationalise. This entails that, after an investment is made to begin building the infrastructure, its construction is completed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119945
Cover Image
Universal high-speed broadband provision : an alternative policy approach
Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2021
Millions of citizens and firms lack access to high speed internet, even though governments pledged to spend huge sums of money to subsidize internet networks. In this paper we review some systematic flaws of present subsidy policies and outline a promising alternative. We propose that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506923
Cover Image
Financing costs and the efficiency of public-private partnerships
Avdiu, Besart; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2020
The paper compares provision of public infrastructure via public-private partnerships (PPPs) with provision under government management. Due to soft budget constraints of government management, PPPs exert more effort and therefore have a cost advantage in building infrastructure. At the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316973
Cover Image
Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398011
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298511
Cover Image
Competition and innovation in automobile markets
Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015
Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342391
Cover Image
Universal intellectual property rights : too much of a good thing?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - 2013
own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764430
Cover Image
The impact of entry regulation on total welfare : a policy experiment
Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - 2013
This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764443
Cover Image
Dynamic models of R&D, innovation and productivity : panel data evidence for Dutch and French manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre A.; … - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764446
Cover Image
Are ex ante and ex post licensing agreements useful instruments to lessen uncertainty in R&D?
Siebert, Ralph - 2013
In the last decades, technologies became more complex which increased the degree of uncertainty in R&D. To overcome the uncertainty, firms frequently engage in R&D collaborations, e.g., Research Joint Ventures (RJVs), and licensing agreements. While RJVs are well explored in the literature, very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223406