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Cost dynamics of clean energy technologies
Glenk, Gunther; Meier, Rebecca; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2021
The pace of the global decarbonization process is widely believed to hinge on the rate of cost improvements for clean energy technologies, in particular renewable power and energy storage. This paper adopts the classical learning-by-doing framework of Wright (1936), which predicts that cost will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587784
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Large-scale desalination and the external impact on irrigation-water salinity : economic analysis for the case of Israel
Slater, Yehuda; Finkelshtain, Israel; Reznik, Ami; Kan, Iddo - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296995
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Pandemic recessions and contact tracing
Melosi, Leonardo; Rottner, Matthias - 2021
lockdown corrects this externality, allowing policymakers to buy time to expand the testing scale so as to preserve the testing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628001
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … between the competitiveness of mothers and their daughters, but not between the competitiveness of mothers and their sons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190676
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Trade in value added : do we need new measures of competitiveness?
Lommatzsch, Kirsten; Silgoner, Maria Antoinette; … - 2017
competitiveness measures. We compile a broad dataset including value added trade, gross exports and conventional and value added based … real exchange rates. To sharply focus on external competitiveness, a new price competitiveness indicator is introduced, the … or cost competitiveness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587107
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Gender differences in tournament choices : risk preferences, overconfidence or competitiveness?
Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … using a novel experimental technique that allows us to separate competitiveness from alternative explanations by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597970
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705210
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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions
Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023
How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...
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Competition in a stock market with small firms
Haller, Hans - 1984
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000167173
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An analysis of fortress hubs in airline networks
Zhang, Anming - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000168400