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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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of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is …
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Führungsmächte gehen mit einem relativen Bedeutungsverlust der USA, Japans und der EU einher. Sie werden durch das wirtschaftliche …, leistet das Working Paper einen Beitrag zur Theorie der Regionalen Führungsmächte aus wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher … im Folgenden durch beschreibende Statistik und Regressionsanalyse an den Beispielländern Brasilien, China, Indien und …
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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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This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...
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We study the effect of railroad access on urban population growth. Using GIS techniques,we match triennial population data for roughly 1000 cities in nineteenth-century Prussiato georeferenced maps of the German railroad network. We find positive short- andlong-term effects of having a station...
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This paper attempts to at least partially redress a paucity of current literature on the joint analysis of inter and intra firm diffusion of innovations within as well as across countries. In particular, by using two datasets derived from independent countryspecific surveys, it undertakes an...
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How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in … washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in …
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small depending on the shape of the copula of child and parent incomes. Second, we derive a general asymptotic theory for … asymptotic theory to other regressions involving ranks that have been used in empirical work. Finally, we apply our new inference …
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Publicly announced GHG mitigation targets and emissions pricing strategies by individual governments may suffer from inherent commitment problems. When emission prices are perceived as short-lived, socially cost-effective upfront investment in climate technologies may be hampered. This paper...
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