Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,763
Cover Image
Acceleration of Technology Adoption withing Firms
Koellinger, Philipp; Schade, Christian - 2008
This paper studies the diffusion of multiple, related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional, related technologies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325779
Cover Image
Assessing the Role of Technology Adoption in China's Growth Performance
Wirz, Nadja - 2008
China has experienced a period of tremendous economic growth in recent years. In an attempt to explain this development, several existing growth-accounting studies reveal that impressively high rates of productivity growth have been at the heart of China's performance. This study investigates to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320976
Cover Image
Do technology diffusion theories explain the OSS business model adoption patterns?
Koski, Heli - 2007
This paper addresses the question of the software companies’ timing of adoption of the open source software (OSS … explain well the observed diffusion patterns of the OSS business model among the sample of 716 European software firms … price declines of the computer programs – and thus the expected declining license revenues from the proprietary software …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285071
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325490
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Endogenous growth and cycles with a continuum of technologies
Horii, Ryo - 2001
When a continuum of technologies is introduced to the model of Grossman and Helpman (1991), both continuous and discrete technological progress may occur as a result of technology choices by private firms. A good is created through R&D based on one of a continuum of technologies that differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332272
Cover Image
The profitable supression of inventions: Technology choice and entry deterrence
Creane, Anthony; Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2007
AT&T was known for both funding a world-class research lab and delaying deployment of useful innovations from the lab. To explain this behavior we consider a model with an incumbent facing a potential entrant. The incumbent can choose from two technologies for production: old and new. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332466
Cover Image
Technology choice and international trade
Schmidt, Gabriela - 2010
This paper develops two extensions of the dynamic model presented in Melitz (2003). The first extension consists in the introduction of technology choice between three alternative production technologies: L, M and H. L is assumed to be the same as Melitz's single production technology, while M...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265957
Cover Image
Climate policy as expectation management?
Narita, Daiju - 2010
It is believed that the primary economic solution to climate change is an introduction of a carbon pricing system anchored to the social cost of carbon, either as a form of tax or tradable permits. Potentially significant externalities accompanying the introduction of emission-reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267264
Cover Image
Climate policy as expectation management?
Narita, Daiju - 2011
It is often emphasized that the primary economic solution to climate change is the introduction of a carbon pricing system (tax or tradable permits) anchored to the social cost of carbon. This standard argument, however, misses the fact that if emission reduction is sought through the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285486