Angesichts sich verknappender Energieressourcen und der Bedrohung durch den Klimawandel ist es unabdingbar, die Energieeffizienz der Produktion zu erhöhen und das Konsumverhalten den neuen Bedingungen anzupassen. In dieser Studie werden die wesentlichen Bestimmungsfaktoren der Verbreitung und...

In this survey we review the literature that studies the relationship between environmental policy and technical change. We divide the literature in two broad areas of research. First, we look at the studies that evaluate the impact of environmental regulation on technological change after the...

We analyze a dynamic two-country trade model between a technological leading country and a technological follower economy. The output production in the follower economy needs a renewable natural resource as an essential input. We first prove that the innovation developed in the leading country...

We study the effect of railroad access on urban population growth. Using GIS techniques,we match triennial population data for roughly 1000 cities in nineteenth-century Prussiato georeferenced maps of the German railroad network. We find positive short- andlong-term effects of having a station...

This book is the first of its kind to systematically analyze and apply Lim Chong Yah's S-Curve Hypothesis to the various facets of economic growth and economic transition. By augmenting the mathematical and economical sophistication of the hypothesis, this book extends the S-Curve hypothesis to...

Why are some societies still poor? Recent research suggests that a country’s “genetic distance”—a measure of the time elapsed since two populations had common ancestry—from the United States is a significant predictor of development even after controlling for an ostensibly exhaustive...

This paper reviews new growth theories (NGT) from the perspective of developing countries. It shows that despite some views to the contrary, NGT and the growth debate that it spawned have some useful lessons for developing countries. Some of these lessons and ideas were indeed available from...

This paper makes an attempt to contribute to the literature of agricultural productivity in Bangladesh since 1961. The econometric results suggest that rapid adoption of green revolution technology, electricity consumption, literacy and credit have had a positive effect on agricultural...

In this paper, we take another approach to accounting for the sources of Singapores economic growth by being explicit about the channels through which Singapore, as a technological follower, benefits from international R&D spillovers. Taking into account the channels through which technology...