Much of the recent empirical work on the impact of unions on R&D is based on a theoretical model which predicts that (i) unions have a negative impact on R&D; (ii) under some circumstances an increase in union strength can make both firms and unions worse off. We survey a more recent theoretical...

We analyse the optimal design of climate change policies when a government wants to encourage the private sector to undertake significant immediate investment in developing cleaner technologies, but the relevant carbon taxes (or other environmental policies) that would incentivise such...

This paper examines the optimal design of climate change policies in the context where governments want to encourage the private sector to undertake significant immediate investment in developing cleaner technologies, but the carbon taxes and other environmental policies that could in principle...