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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...

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Clean and dirty international technology diffusion

Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - 2013

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …

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International technology diffusion : a gravity approach

Santacreu, Ana Maria - 2020 - This version: January 2, 2020

We derive a theory-based gravity-type equation that determines the main drivers of international technology diffusion …

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The political economy of energy innovation

Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica; Verdolini, Elena - 2016

This paper empirically investigates the effects of environmental policy, institutions, political orientation, and lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy efficient technologies. We conclude that political economy...

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Should we ban unconventional oil extraction to reduce global warming?

Carrara, Samuel; Massetti, Emanuele - 2014

The extraction and processing of unconventional oil is more energy intensive and has larger negative environmental impacts than the extraction of conventional oil. The European Union (EU) estimates that oil sands lead to 22% more emissions than conventional oil. The EU is very concerned by the...

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