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Climate alpha and the global capital market

Golub, Alexander; Anda, Jon; Markandya, Anil; Brody, Michael - 2022

The way in which climate policy and climate risks are currently accounted for in financial and real investment decisions is inadequate. The paper demonstrates weaknesses in methods presently used and proposes an alternative that aims to bridge the duration gap between climate policy modeling and...

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The effects of startup acquisitions on innovation and economic growth

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Roldan-Blanco, Pau; Schmitz, Tom - 2022

Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an … startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions can erode incumbents' own innovation incentives. Our paper aims to assess … the net effect of these forces. To do so, we build an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms and acquisitions …

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Climate change & technology transfer: Barriers, technologies and mechanisms

Goldar, Amrita; Sharma, Shubham; Sawant, Viraj; Jain, Sajal - 2019

Technology transfer is one of the most contentious issues in international negotiations on climate change. Despite its recognition at international platforms such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, G20, etc., the independent review of Climate Technology Centre and...

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Digging into the Technological Dimension of Environmental Productivity

Belloc, Filippo; Valentini, Edilio - 2022

We propose a mixture model approach to identify locally optimal technologies and to dissect environmental productivity (output produced per unit of emission) into a technological and a managerial component. For a large sample of plants covered by the EU ETS, we find that the share of plants...

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Climatic fluctuations and the diffusion of agriculture

Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2013

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...

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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...

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Overstraining International Climate Finance: When Conflicts of Objectives Threaten Its Succes

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2020

Expectations concerning international climate finance have increased considerably. In par-ticular, provisions for international transfer schemes are an important element in the Paris Agreement. Yet, climate finance is not only seen as a tool to efficiently combat global warm-ing, but also to...

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Does green re-industrialization pay off? Impacts on employment, wages and productivity

Frattini, Federico Fabio; Vona, Francesco; Bontadini, … - 2024

What are the consequences of green industrialization on the labour market and industry dynamics? This paper tackles and quantifies this question by employing observable and reliable data on green manufacturing production for an extensive set of EU countries and 4-digit manufacturing industries...

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Umwelttechnikindustrie - Zukunftsmarkt China

Lichtenecker, Ruperta - 2006

China, das Reich der Mitte, ist mit schwerwiegenden Umweltproblemen konfrontiert die hohe Kosten verursachen. Mit der zunehmenden Anwendung der Umwelttechnik kann der Herausforderung diese Problemfelder zu beheben sinnvoll begegnet werden. Die Indikatoren Wirtschaftswachstum, notwendiger Schutz...

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Threshold Policy Effects and Directed Technical Change in Energy Innovation

Nesta, Lionel; Verdolini, Elena; Vona, Francesco - 2018

This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over the period 1990-2012. Our novelty is to use threshold regression models to allow for discontinuities in policy effectiveness depending on a country's relative competencies in...

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