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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...
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Forbidden Fruits : The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Bénabou, Roland - 2015
We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper's motivating evidence we also uncover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024151
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Patent Statistics as Economic Indicators : a Survey
Griliches, Zvi - 2022
This survey reviews the growing use of patent data in economic analysis. After describing some of the main … characteristics of patents and patent data, it focuses on the use of patents as an indicator of technological change. Cross … the distribution of patent values and the value of patent rights, the latter being based on recent analyses of European …
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Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution : What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?
Kortum, Samuel S.; Lerner, Josh - 2021
institutional change benefitted patent holders, explains the burst in U.S. patenting. Using both international and" domestic data on … patent applications and awards, we conclude that the evidence is not favorable" to the conventional view. Instead, it appears …
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A Model of Research, Patenting, and Technological Change
Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021
I use the aggregate behavior of three indicators of technology (employment of research scientists and engineers, patented inventions, and total factor productivity) to identify a plausible model of endogenous technological change. In the US (as well as in other developed countries) research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240534
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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas : Evidence from Patent Grant Delays
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
information about cooperative licensing and the timing of patent allowances (the administrative event when patent rights are … significantly increases after patent allowance. Moreover, the impact of the patent system depends on the strategic and institutional … environment in which firms operate. Patent allowance seems to play a particularly important role for technologies with longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751882
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The Economics of Inefficient Technology Use
Beaudry, Paul - 2012
The adoption and diffusion of technological knowledge is generally regarded as a key element in a country's economic success. However, as is the case with most types of information, the transfer of technological knowledge is likely to be subject to adverse selection problems. In this paper we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755309
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Endogenizing Technological Change : Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs
Pizer, William A. - 2012
Given that technologies to significantly reduce fossil fuel emissions are currently unavailable or only available at high cost, technological change will be a key component of any long-term strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In light of this, the amount of research on the pace,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755385
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An Exploration of Technology Diffusion
Comin, Diego - 2012
We develop and estimate a model where technology diffusion depends on the level of productivity embodied in capital and where this is, in turn, determined by two key mechanisms: the rate at which the quality embodied in new technology vintages increases (embodiment) and the gains from varieties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755514
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Lobbies and Technology Diffusion
Comin, Diego - 2012
This paper explores whether lobbies slow down technology diffusion. To answer this question, we exploit the differential effect of various institutional attributes that should affect the costs of erecting barriers when the new technology has a technologically close predecessor but not otherwise....
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