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Can international technological diffusion substitute for coordinated global policies to mitigate climate change?
Barrett, Philip - 2021
In short, yes. I use a multi-region integrated assessment model with fuel-specific endogenous technical change to examine the impact of Europe and China reducing emissions to zero by mid-century. Without international technological diffusion this is insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate...
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Technological and economic decoupling in the cyber era
Garcia-Macia, Daniel; Goyal, Rishi - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift toward digital services. Meanwhile, the race for technological and economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from the worst global recession since the Great Depression....
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International R and D Spillovers and Institutions
Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - 2008
The empirical analysis in ""International R&D Spillovers"" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...
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Technology and Epidemics
Chong, Alberto - 1999
Evidence from historical and epidemiological literatures show that epidemics tend to spread in the population according to a logistic pattern. We conjecture that the impact of new technologies on output follows a pattern of spread not unlike that of typical epidemics. After reaching a critical...
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International RandD Spillovers
Helpman, Elhanan - 1993
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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Destabilizing the global monetary system : Germany's adoption of the gold standard in the early 1870s
Wiegand, Johannes - 2019
bimetallism, id est, a near-universal fixed exchange rate system in which (mostly) France stabilized the exchange value between … France, which would have severed the link between gold and silver currencies. Without reform, Germany would thus have risked … accommodation, however. Victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 allowed Germany to force accommodation, but only until France …
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France and the Breakdown of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System
Simard, Dominique - 1994
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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ICT, financial inclusion, and growth : evidence from African countries
Andrianaivo, Mihasonirina; Kpodar, Kangni - 2011
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IT shields : technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, Yannick - 2020
distancing. Our estimates imply that if the pandemic had hit the world 5 years ago, the resulting unemployment rate would have …
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Two-sided market, R&D and payments system evolution
Li, Bin; McAndrews, James Joseph; Wang, Zhu - 2019
It takes many years for more efficient electronic payments to be widely used, and the fees that merchants (consumers) pay for using those services are increasing (decreasing) over time. We address these puzzles by studying payments system evolution with a dynamic model in a twosided market...
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