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The Rise of the Low Carbon Consumer City

Holian, Matthew John - 2013

Urban density both facilitates consumption opportunities and encourages individuals to drive less and walk and use public transit more. Using several data sets, we document that high quality of life consumer center cities are low carbon cities. We discuss possible causal channels for this...

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Painting by Proxy : The Conceptual Artist as Manufacturer

Galenson, David W. - 2020

In 1958, the French philosopher Etienne Gilson observed that "painters are related to manual laborers by a deep-rooted affinity that nothing can eliminate," because painting was the one art in which the person who conceives the work is also necessarily the person who executes it. Conceptual...

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers increase Southern purchasing power, which lifts long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation,...

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the...

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The Scots May Be Brave But They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

Bell, David N.F; Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

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How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs

Moser, Petra - 2013

This paper introduces a new internationally comparable data set that permits an empirical investigation of the effects of patent law on innovation. The data have been constructed from the catalogues of two 19th century world fairs: the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851, and the...

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Innovation Policies in the European News Media Industry : A Comparative Study

van Kranenburg, Hans (ed.) - 2017

This book explores the importance and the types of media innovation policies formulated and implemented in various European countries. Each country analysis illustrates the evolution and structure of news media markets and media cross-ownership policies in recent years and evaluates how...

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New Business and Regulatory Strategies in the Postal Sector

Parcu, Pier Luigi (ed.); Brennan, Timothy J. (ed.); … - 2018

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Worldwide, there is currently a considerable amount of interest in postal and delivery economics. The industry is reacting to a state of near crisis and is implementing different drastic changes. The...

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The Economics of Crowdfunding : Startups, Portals and Investor Behavior

Cumming, Douglas (ed.); Hornuf, Lars (ed.) - 2018

Efforts -- 9: The Regulation of Crowdfunding in the United States. 10: The Regulation of Crowdfunding in Europe -- 11 …

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