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The impact of energy prices on green innovation: Study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Ley, Marius; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013
industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio … lag between energy prices and innovation activities. Robustness tests confirm the main results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386846
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Differential Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change: A Review of the Empirical Literature
Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2006
recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325490
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The influence of retiree health benefits on retirement patterns
Marton, James; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2010
We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) men observed over a period of up to 12 years. We hypothesize that the effect of RHBs differs for workers of different ages - a hypothesis we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288029
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Retiree health benefits and the decision to retire
Marton, James; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2009
We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample of men observed over a period of up to 12 years in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Our main concern is that such estimates may be contaminated by unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288031
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Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technological Change
Lööf, Hans - 2003
This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm?s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298124
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Radical Innovation and Network Evolution
Phlippen, Sandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - 2007
This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325532
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Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital
Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - 2001
In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
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The Evolution of the Literature on Technological Change over time: A Survey
Conte, Andrea - 2006
This paper reviews the emergence and evolution of major topics in economics of innovation. Throughout the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263572
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Outsourcing and technological innovations: a firm-level analysis
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2008
This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268654
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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm's expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269467