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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015
Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
analyse the effect of both, coal and oil on economic growth between 1900 and 2015, exploiting variation at the level of … European NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. We show that the reversal of fortune of coal regions resulted from the second energy … transition. Specifically, an "oil invasion" in the early 1960s turned regional coal abundance from a blessing into a curse. Human …
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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...
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Anonymity, efficiency wages and technological progress
Broadberry, Stephen N.; Ghosal, Sayantan; Proto, Eugenio - 2016
Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper provides an analysis of one such link: the role of commercialisation in raising wages as impersonal labour market...
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Religious tolerance as engine of innovation
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2017
We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774957
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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017
This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638304
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Knowing the damages is not enough : the general equilibrium impacts of climate change
Kalkuhl, Matthias; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2016
We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate change induces a structural change to the more productive sector, economies can benefit from climate change though productivities in both sectors are reduced. If climate change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454039
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Capturing key energy and emission trends in CGE models : assessment of status and remaining challenges
Fæhn, Taran; Bachner, Gabriel; Beach, Robert; Chateau, Jean - 2020
Limiting global warming in line with the goals in the Paris Agreement will require substantial technological and behavioural transformations. This challenge drives many of the current modelling trends. This paper undertakes a review of 17 state-of-the-art recursive-dynamic computable general...
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Not in my backyard? : the local impact of wind and solar parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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Optimal carbon tax with a dirty backstop : oil, coal, or renewables?
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Withagen, Cees - 2011
Optimal climate policy is studied. Coal, the abundant resource, contributes more CO2 per unit of energy than the … exhaustible resource, oil. We characterize the optimal sequencing oil and coal and departures from the Herfindahl rule …. "Preference reversal" can take place. If coal is very dirty compared to oil, there is no simultaneous use. Else, the optimal …
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Carbon leakage : a medium- and long-term view
Habermacher, Florian - 2015
late breakthroughs most unilateral emission reductions may be negated abroad. Future coal liquefaction suggests negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479912