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Charity hazard : A real hazard to natural disaster insurance?

Raschky, Paul A.; Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore - 2007

After the flooding in 2002 European governments provided billions of Euros of financial assistance to their citizens. Although there is no doubt that solidarity and some sort of assistance is reasonable, the question arises why these damages were not sufficiently insured. One explanation why...

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Energieeffizienzpotenziale und staatlicher Lenkungsbedarf

Dobroschke, Stephan - 2012

Die langfristigen Klimaschutzziele sehen bis zum Jahr 2020 im Vergleich zu 2008 eine Senkung des Primärenergieverbrauchs um 20% vor, bis zum Jahr 2050 wird eine Senkung um 50% angestrebt. Zur Erreichung dieser Ziele stehen zunehmend Maßnahmen zur Steigerung nachfrageseitiger Energieeffizienz...

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Corruption, Exogenous Changes in Incentives and Deterrence

Di Vita, Giuseppe - 2006

In this article we apply and extend the model elaborated by Acemoglu and Verdier in their seminal paper (2000), to examine how the economy represented in their theoretical framework responds to an exogenous change in the agent's incentive. In particular, we focus on the consequences of a famous...

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Coalitional cohesion in technology policy: The case of the early solar cell industry in the United States

Ergen, Timur - 2017

Aufsatz trägt zu neueren Debatten über die Bedingungen erfolgreicher Industrie- und Technologiepolitik bei, indem er zeigt …

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Notes on the Determinants of Innovation: A Multi-Perspective Analysis

Crespi, Francesco - 2004

The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be … considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change …

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How much should society fuel the greed of innovators? On the relations between appropriability, opportunities and rates of innovation

Dosi, Giovanni; Marengo, Luigi; Pasquali, Corrado - 2006

The paper attempts a critical assessment of both the theory and the empirical evidence on the role of appropriability … and in particular of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) as incentives for technological innovation. We start with a …-market institutions in the innovation process. Next, we examine the recent changes in the IPR regimes and their influence upon both rates …

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Forschungsförderung des deutschen Mittelstands

Elsenbast, Wolfgang; Lichtblau, Karl; Röhl, Klaus-Heiner - 2007

technologieungebundenen Förderung für KMU, (4) Verbesserung des Wagniskapitalmarktes, (5) Einführung von Steuervergünstigungen für FuE, (6 …) eine Forschungsprämie, gegebenenfalls mit einer Bevorzugung von KMU, und schließlich (7) die Verbesserung der Governance …In Germany there is considerably less innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) than in large companies …