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A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy
Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2004
policies that foster emissions reduction as well as the development and adoption of environmentally beneficial technology. Both … and information problems can further weaken innovation incentives. While environmental technology policy is fraught with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445441
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Drivers of national innovation in transition: Evidence from an eastern European panel
Krammer, Marius S. - 2008
Innovation plays a crucial role in determining today's economic growth patterns. But whatenables some countries to innovate more than others? This study attempts to answer this questionby analyzing in premiere a panel of sixteen Eastern European transition countries. It provides adetailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475876
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Report on Georgia's Innovation Forums of 2006
Wilkins, Joy; Brown, Mac - 2006
marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project … is: “How can communities across the South harness the economic potential of technology and innovation?” Georgia … those who already recognized the importance of innovation and technology, that familiarity enabled many of them to identify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476113
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Economic growth, inequality and technology adoption in transitional economies
Ratnasiri, Nawaratne Gedara Shyama Chandani - 2009
across countries. This thesis constructs a dynamic general equilibrium model in which technology adoption is costly and … technology adoption process depending on productivity differences between the technologies. These are appropriately labeled as …‟ decision to switch technology which leads to a disparity in incomes across households in the technology adoption process. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438393
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The Effects of Biotechnology Policy on Trade and Growth
Oehmke, James F.; Maredia, Mywish K.; Weatherspoon, Dave D. - 2001
Despite the clear influence of European Union biotechnology restrictions on trade patterns, very little work has been done to model these influences or their long-run effects. This paper presents an economic trade theory model of biotechnology, biotechnology research and development (R&D), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446224
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Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionists Right?
Srinivasan, T.N.; Bhagwati, Jagdish - 1999
The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444171
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Crescimento dos vales do Tietê e Paraná: um enfoque de estoques de capitais
Bernardes, Elaine Mendonca; Peres, Fernando Curi; … - 2007
The study aimed at identifying factors limiting the Tietê and Paraná valleys economic growth. Specifically, it analyzed the importance of the capital stocks for economic growth of these and the other counties in São Paulo State. Nine factors were generated by Principal Components Method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446449
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What drives fiscal decentralisation? Further assessing the role of income
Bodman, Philip; Hodge, Andrew - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448196
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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets
Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008
This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475007
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneuship for Regional Research: A New Approach
Low, Sarah A. - 2009
of skill, technology, patents, churn, and employment growth, using detailed NAICS (North American Industrial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477924