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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014
manufacturers in China's wind power industry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257289
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Why trade when you can transfer the technology : revisiting smith and ricardo
Acharyya, Rajat; Marjit, Sugata - 2021
This paper explores the possibility of international technology transfer in lieu of trade in a model with absolute and comparative advantage. Countries having absolute advantage in producing a good may offer that technology to a possible trading partner against a fee and both the countries might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584221
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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002
The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduces the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409394
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Firm and establishment volatility : the role of sunk costs, profit uncertainty and technological change
Ghosal, Vivek - 2003
. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high … reveals that (1) the typical industry experiences significant fluctuations in the number of firms and (2) there are large … cross-industry differences in this dimension. Theory suggests several potential factors that might explain this dispersion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508062
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Trade, technology, and productivity : a study of Brazilian manufacturers, 1986-1998
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2004
Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two-digit level under various alternatives, including an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402582
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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects
Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023
We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383690
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Technological transfers in global climate policy
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Dippl, Lisa; Eichenseer, Michael - 2015 - This version: September 30, 2015
Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence show that leadership behavior in climate policy through increased abatement efforts or international transfers cannot be expected to be very successful. In this paper we instead show that pioneering activities, which are based on green technological...
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Technology gaps, trade and income
Sampson, Thomas - 2019
innovation-dependence by industry from R&D and bilateral trade data. Calibrating the model implies technology gaps, due to cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029168
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Foreign ownership and skillbiased technological change
Koch, Michael; Smolka, Marcel - 2018
We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...
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Sources of the German productivity demise : tracing the effects of industry-level ICT investment
Eicher, Theo S. (contributor); Roehn, Oliver (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462870