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Environmental policy and growth when inputs are differentiated in pollution intensity
Ricci, Francesco - 2002
Environmental policy affects the distribution of market shares if intermediate goods are differentiated in pollution intensity. When innovations are environmental friendly, a tax on emissions skews demand towards new goods, which are the most productive. In this case along a balanced growth path...
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The effects of startup acquisitions on innovation and economic growth
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Roldan-Blanco, Pau; Schmitz, Tom - 2022 - This version: December 9, 2022
Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an incentive for startup creation and may transfer ideas to more efficient users. On the other hand, incumbents might acquire startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions...
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The solaria syndrome: social capital in a growing hyper-technological economy
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2010
basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a “socially sustainable” economic growth …
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th Plan (2007012). One dimension of this change was the...
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Structural change, environment and well-being : interactions between production and consumption choices of the rich and the poor in developing countries
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2008
Vulnerability to scarcity or to reduction of natural capital depends on defensive substitution possibilities that, in turn, are affected by the availability of other productive factors. However, in several developing countries asset distribution tends to be highly skewed. Taking into ac- count...
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Local communities in front of big external investors : an opportunity or a risk?
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2010
In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...
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Climate policy under technology spillovers
Golombek, Rolf; Hoel, Michael - 2003
climate policy when there are technology spillovers between countries, and there is no instrument that (directly) corrects for …
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On the relationship between R&D and productivity : a treatment effect analysis
Medda, Giuseppe; Piga, Claudio A.; Siegel, Donald S. - 2003
This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship between R&D expenditures and productivity growth. The analysis considers the different contributions of various forms of R&D (product, process, internal, external in collaboration...
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Understanding the growth of the middle class in Bolivia
Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2021
In this paper we aim to disentangle how sectoral economic growth affects the size of the middle class, using state-level data of Bolivia from 2000 to 2017 and breaking the three main economic activities into subsectors to attain more-specific results. Because the data from Bolivia are limited,...
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Neoclassical growth, environment and technological change: the environmental Kuznets curve
Rubio, Santiago J.; García, J. R.; Hueso, J. L. - 2009 - Fourth version: May 2009
environmentally oriented R&D. In this framework, if the initial level of capital is low then the shadow price of a cleaner technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840029