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The Environment and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2009
can be achieved with temporary taxation of dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both "carbon … exhaustible resource in dirty input production helps the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are …
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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry
Arora, Ashish - 2010
The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this … chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played … coal to oil, and briefly analyze two government programs that have attempted to promote innovation: synthetic rubber and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462976
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Payment for Environmental Services : Hypotheses and Evidence
Alston, Lee J. - 2013
The use of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is not a new type of contract but they have become more in vogue because of the potential for sequestering carbon by paying to prevent deforestation and degradation of forest lands. We provide a framework utilizing transaction costs to...
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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology : Can Patent Commons Help?
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2011
investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461737
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Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies
Leeper, Eric M. - 2011
Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461838
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The Inherent Trade-Off Between the Environmental and Anti-Poverty Goals of Payments for Ecosystem Services
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Conservation programs in low-income countries often have dual goals of protecting the environment and reducing poverty. This article discusses the tension between these two goals in payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs. Participants who undertake a pro-environment behavior receive a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191049
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Reversal of Fortune : Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Acemoglu, Daron - 2001
Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470258
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470979
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Institutions for High-Quality Growth : What They are and How to Acquire Them
Rodrik, Dani - 2000
This paper opens with a discussion of the types of institutions that allow markets to perform adequately. While we can identify in broad terms what these are, there is no unique mapping between markets and the non-market institutions that underpin them. The paper emphasizes the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471235
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Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others?
Hall, Robert E. - 1999
Output per worker varies enormously across countries. Why? On an accounting basis, our analysis shows that differences in physical capital and educational attainment can only partially explain the variation in output per worker we find a large amount of variation in the level of the Solow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471639