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Jánossy elmélete az új növekedéselmélet tükrében
Tarján, Tamás - 2010
If Janossy's theory should concisely be drafted, one might say that he had been researching the "real carrier of … economic development" in a very original way and having formulated his theory in a specific language. He managed to identify … growth theory that have appeared in the nineties. The "real carrier of economic development" matches to the "human capital …
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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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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...
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Knowledge and economic progress: The role of social technologies
Eggertson, Thráinn - 2008
I focus on the independent role of social innovation in economic progress. Modern theory of economic growth and …
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Differential Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change: A Review of the Empirical Literature
Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2006
This survey reviews the empirical literature on the impact of environmental policy instruments on the rate and direction of technological change. The survey is explicitly focused on the empirical identification of the hypothesis to expect a stronger impact from market-based incentives than from...
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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Irmen, Andreas - 2008
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
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Population, Pensions, and Endogenous Economic Growth
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
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The transformative capacity of new technologies. How innovations affect sectoral change: Conceptual considerations
Dolata, Ulrich - 2008
Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sectoral change. The concept is based on two interrelated influencing factors. The first is the...
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Environmental policy and technological change
Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2002
The relationship between technological change and environmental policy has received increasing attention from scholars and policy makers alike over the past ten years. This is partly because the environmental impacts of social activity are significantly affected by technological change, and...
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Does the growth process discriminate against older workers?
Langot, François; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2008
This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job destruction framework à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1998). We show that, under the assumption of...
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