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Geography rules too! : Economic development and the geography of institutions
Bosker, Maarten (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364649
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From fossil fuels to renewables : the role of electricity storage
Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda; Pelli, Martino - 2016
, we empirically analyze the determinants of innovation in electricity generation, and the role of storage in directing … innovation. Our results show that electricity storage increases innovation not only in renewables but also in conventional … technologies. This implies that efforts to increase innovation in storage can benefit conventional, fossil fuel-fired electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497793
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Industrial policy and the great divergence
Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391314
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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...
Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit’s available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175828
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Financial constraints and other obstacles : are they a threat to innovation activity?
Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; Schim van der Loeff, … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630838
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Technological sovereignty as ability, not autarky
March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021
globalization. We develop a competence-based definition of technological sovereignty, which puts innovation policy at the core of … cooperation and trade. Two case studies illustrate how innovation policy might be used to achieve technological sovereignty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546886
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International energy technology transfers for climate change mitigation : what, who, how, why, when, where, how much and the implications for international institutional architectu...
Brewer, Thomas L. (contributor) - 2008
The goal of the paper is to expand and refine the international technology transfer negotiating and analytic agendas and to reframe the issues. The paper presents concepts, indicators, illustrations and data that identify and measure international transfers of energy technologies that can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763016
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A cross-country empirical analysis of international reserves
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Itō, Hiro - 2009
Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850507
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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377261
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When the state mirrors the family : the design of pension systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2010
This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697040