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Sharing the Benefits of Innovation-Digitization : A Summary of Market Processes and Policy Suggestions
Islam, Roumeen - 2018
Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921429
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Competition and Innovation-Driven Inclusive Growth
Dutz, Mark A. - 2017
The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is inclusive. In a sample of more than 26,000 manufacturing establishments across 71 countries (both OECD and developing), the authors find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975685
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Emissions Trading with Offset Markets and Free Quota Allocations
Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2017
This paper studies interactions between a "policy bloc's" emissions quota market and an offset market where emissions offsets can be purchased from a non-policy "fringe" of countries (such as for the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol). Policy-bloc firms enjoy free quota...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974797
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Family Firms and Contractual Institutions
Iacovone, Leo - 2019
This paper offers new evidence on the relationship between contractual institutions, family management, and aggregate performance. The study creates a new firm-level database on management and ownership structures spanning 134 regions in 11 European countries. To guide the empirical analysis, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889290
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Triggers of Contract Breach : Contract Design, Shocks, or Institutions?
Nose, Manabu - 2017
This paper constructs a large contract-level data set to examine factors that trigger breach of foreign investment … contract. Furthermore, although investors' bargaining power becomes obsolete as contracts mature, contracts can be designed to … mitigate the risk of breach of contract by involving multilateral organizations and creating buffers to absorb commodity price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973624
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Cooperation and Reciprocity in Carbon Sequestration Contracts
Salas, Paula Cordero - 2017
contracts. The optimal contract is derived as a result of the optimizing actions of purely self-interested agents, and agents … that act according to social or egoistic preferences. The analysis finds that buyers' preferences do not affect contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974200
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Quality Contingent Contracts : Evidence from Tanzania's Coffee Market
Mahdi, Shireen - 2017
production practices. Three contract types are studied: spot contracts, contingent contracts with product grading and contingent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975056
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Scenarios : Leapfrog, Lock-In, and Lopsided
Leifman, Michael Meir - 2019
This paper presents the details of three scenarios -- leapfrog, lock-in, and lopsided -- that describe an illustrative set of technological states. Based largely on expert interviews, the paper argues that the technology outcomes are heavily attributable to the actions (or in some cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892369
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Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge
Glachant, Matthieu - 2017
Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974291
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Innovative and Absorptive Capacity of International Knowledge : An Empirical Analysis of Productivity Sources in Latin American Countries
Castillo, Leopoldo Laborda - 2017
This paper examines two sources of global knowledge spillovers: foreign direct investments and trade. Empirical evidence demonstrates that foreign direct investment and trade can contribute to overall domestic productivity growth only when the technology gap between domestic and foreign firms is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975524