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Environmental and climate innovation : limitations, prices and policies

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2010

There is currently much hope about environmental innovation and green technologies, notably as a response to the threat of climate change. This paper offers a critical perspective on the role of technological innovation to solving environmental problems, based on considering empirical economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809597

The impact of differential satiation dynamics on changing consumer behavior, wellbeing, and innovative activity

Lades, Leonhard K. - 2012

matching. The paper compares the Engel curves obtained from matching with the Engel curves obtained from traditional …. While superficially both ways to allocate income generate similar results, matching allows to explain some empirical … regularities that maximization cannot account for. For example, only by using matching one can reconstruct that income elasticities …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671382

Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach

Coad, Alexander; Binder, Martin - 2013

Work and life satisfaction depend on a number of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors at the workplace and determine these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a German sample of the working populace from 1984-2008.

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Explaining the (non-) causality between energy and economic growth in the US : a multivariate sectoral analysis

Gross, Christian - 2011

The rapidly growing literature on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth has not univocally identified the "real" causal relationship yet. We argue that bivariate models, which analyze the causality at the level of the total economy, are not appropriate - especially in...

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Life satisfaction and self-employment : a matching approach

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2010

seems to account for the high job satisfaction. We apply matching estimators that allow us to better take into account the … measures of subjective well-being as well as choice of matching variables, and also robustness exercises involving "simulated … confounders". -- self-employment ; happiness ; matching estimators ; unemployment ; BHPS ; necessity entrepreneurship …