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This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can … innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …
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The paradoxes of Lucas and Romer relate to the theoretical coherence of the international differences in productivity of the factors of production. To solve these paradoxes, the assumption of externality of the physical capital seems better than the assumption of externality of the human capital...
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This paper studies a two-country production economy with complete and frictionless financial markets and international trade of final goods in which competition in R&D leads to endogenous new firm creation and economic growth. Current monopolists ("incumbents") and potential new firms...
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, incumbents. With these models at hand, we provide new insights on the interplay of innovation dynamics and fiscal policy …
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enables the model to replicate the empirically rather moderate correlation between the R&D innovation probabilities of …
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, incumbents. With these models at hand, we provide new insights on the interplay of innovation dynamics and fiscal policy. …
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development (R&D) by entrants and, if applicable, incumbents. Regardless of the innovation structure, an increase in consumption … economic growth alongside a welfare loss in the homogeneous innovation model. However, in the heterogeneous innovation model … higher welfare. Only higher capital investment subsidies lead to jointly higher growth and welfare in both innovation models …
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There appears to be significant diversity in the incidence of bureaucratic corruption across countries at different … has been offered, however, on the link between corruption, government, and growth. The paper attempts to fill the void …
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Economic and rent-seeking outcomes are determined jointly in a dynamic general equilibrium model of corruption, public … responsible for providing public goods, which contribute to productive efficiency. Corruption arises because of an opportunity for …. The model produces multiple development regimes, which yield different predictions about corruption, public spending and …
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The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Greece were used to compare bribery to 18 other moral issues. Respondents...
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