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Maximizing the Impact of Climate Finance : Funding Projects or Pilot Projects?
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2017
leverage the private sector. Agencies seeking to promote private investment in support of climate change mitigation and … projects or an experimental phase that generates better information about whether a full project is likely to succeed or fail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455657
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A Cognitive View of Policing
Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372408
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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Rents and Intangible Capital : A Q+ Framework
Crouzet, Nicolas; Eberly, Janice C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In recent years, US investment has been lackluster, despite rising valuations. Key explanations include growing rents … -- reflected in average Q -- and investment -- reflected in marginal q -- can be decomposed into three terms: the value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599278
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Tax Reform and Adjustment Costs : The Impact on Investment and Market Value
Auerbach, Alan J. - 1986
This paper derives analytical measures of the combined effects of tax changes and adjustment costs on investment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476966
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Comparison and Analysis of Productivity Growth and R&D Investment in theElectrical Machinery Industries of the United States and Japan
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1986
This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital formation in both countries. A substantial amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477226
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Labor and Investment Demand at the Firm Level : A Comparison of French, German and U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-79
Mairesse, Jacques - 1985
We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477531
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Private and Public Investments in Biomedical Research
Durvasula, Maya M.; Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent policy attention has focused on proposals to reduce prices for drugs that have received public funding. From an implementation perspective, such policies rely on public disclosure of government support for research. In this paper, we highlight two conceptual problems with past attempts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482567
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The Effect of Immigration on Productivity : Evidence from US States
Peri, Giovanni - 2009
Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill bias. We use the location of a state relative to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463142
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Unmeasured Investment and the Puzzling U.S. Boom in the 1990s
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2007
by introducing intangible investment and non-neutral technology change with respect to producing intangible investment …. We use the theory to compare current accounting measures for labor productivity and investment with the corresponding … measures for the model economy with intangible investment. Our findings show that standard accounting measures greatly …
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