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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...
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Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? : evidence from chemistry
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023
In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential to push forward the global frontier, but mere production...
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Legal institutions, innovation and growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal … excessive (greater than first-best) R&D investment and output growth. -- legal system ; commitment ; flexibility ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153886
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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 … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a production function of innovation for European regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781621
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How "Chicagoan" are Gary Becker's economic models of marriage?
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2009
This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman and optimal sorting...
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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? : the case of self-selected student samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2010
Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697134
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Framing effects in political decision making : evidence from a natural voting experiment
Bütler, Monika (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496578
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"The way in which an experiment is conducted is unbelievably Important" : on the experimentation practices of economists and psychologists
Ortmann, Andreas - 2009
To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are - arguably more often than not - sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923272
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On the generalizability of experimental results in economics : with a response to commentors
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; List, John A. - 2013
Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...
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