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Technological sovereignty as ability, not autarky
March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021
Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfill them unclear. This leaves room for partly particularly negative interpretations, such as equating the...
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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010
This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
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The long-run evolution of infrastructure services
Goldsmith, Hugh - 2014
This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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The macroeconomic effects of funding U.S. infrastructure
Malley, James R.; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2022
This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …
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Pork, infrastructure and growth : evidence from the Italian railway expansion
Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021
This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both...
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Institutional architecture for financing Pan-Asian infrastructure connectivity
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2017
trade-driven growth through increased intraregional infrastructure connectivity and regional economic integration. In 1992 … connectivity as well as infrastructure financing needs in Asia. It also examines the nature and characteristics of existing and new … an institutional architecture consisting of new "Asian Infrastructure Coordination Facility (AICF)" involving major …
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Autonomous vehicles : moral dilemmas and adoption incentives
Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2022
In unavoidable traffic accidents, autonomous vehicles (AVs) face the dilemma of protecting either the passenger(s) or third parties. Recent studies show that most people prefer AVs following a utilitarian approach by minimizing total harm. At the same time, however, they would adopt an AV only...
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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are...
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...
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