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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...
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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …
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