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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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Clean development mechanism (CDM) vs. international permit trading - the impact on technological change
Hagem, Cathrine - 2006
The clean development mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol may induce a technological change in developing countries. As an alternative to the CDM-regime, developing countries may accept a (generous) cap on their own emissions, let domestic producers invest in new efficient technologies, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284380
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Export market exit and firm survival: Theory and first evidence
Hiller, Sanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Sørensen, Allan - 2013
This paper deploys a dynamic extension of the Melitz (2003) model to generate predictions on export market exit and firm survival in a setting where firms endogenously make exit decisions. The central driver of the model dynamics is the inclusion of exogenous economy wide technological progress....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294475
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The effect of technological innovation on international trade: a nonlinear approach
Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009
This paper focuses on the relationship between technological innovation and international trade. In particular, the … effect of technological achievement on exports is studied. In order to measure technological innovation, the technological … classified into four groups according to their level of technological innovation: Leaders, Potential Leaders, Dynamic Adopters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298605
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How clean is clean? Incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants
Rennings, Klaus; Markewitz, Peter; Vögele, Stefan - 2009
(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298793
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Environmental policy and technological change
Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2002
change, and in Part 3, we focus on issues related to the empirical analysis of technology innovation and diffusion. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335696
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The role of product innovation on the diffusion of mobile telephony
Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2009
Most existing empirical work on technology diffusion assumes technologies to remain constant throughout the diffusion process. However, many consumer technologies improve significantly over time. Using data on the characteristics of new mobile handsets over a ten-year period and controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273048
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The Meaning of Entrepreneurship: A Modular Concept
Peneder, Michael - 2009
Entrepreneurship has been characterised as one of the most intriguing but equally elusive concepts in economics. This critical review first surveys its major intellectual roots and then proposes a modular concept of entrepreneurship that preserves its essentially distinctive behavioural,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435254
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Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana
Conley, Timothy G.; Udry, Christopher R. - 2000
This paper investigates the role of social learning in the diffusion of a new agricultural technology in Ghana. We use unique data on farmers' communication patterns to define each individual's information neighborhood, the set of others from whom he might learn. Our empirical strategy is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369136
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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. …
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