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Biodiversity and globalization
Heal, Geoffrey - 2002
Reduction of the earth’s biodiversity as a result of human activities is a matter of great concern to prominent scientists. What are the economic aspects of this loss? In economic terms, what is biodiversity and why might it matter? And is the loss of biodiversity in any way connected with...
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Climate-friendly technologies in the mobile air-conditioning sector: A patent citation analysis
Rave, Tilmann; Goetzke, Frank - 2011
fluorinatedgreenhouse gas emissions. Using patents as an indicator of innovations and patent citations as a proxy for knowledge flows the … across patent applicant- and firm-types is analyzed. We find that most environmental patents originate from Germany and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312206
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: Evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - 2012
innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294270
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Technological diversity, scientific excellence and the location of inventive activities abroad: The case of nanotechnology
Fernandez-Ribas, Andrea; Shapira, Philip - 2008
Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and innovation is to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330108
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The role(s) of intellectual property Rights for innovation: a review of the empirical evidence and implications for developing countries
Léger, Andréanne - 2007
the costs and benefits of the patent system, the use of patents as innovation indicators, and the need for more research …The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This … article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264960
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Financial development and innovation in China: Evidence from the provincial data
Hanley, Aoife; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - 2011
This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. …
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Creative destruction and productive preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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Ökonomisches Konzept zur Parkraumbewirtschaftung in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Bruns, Oliver; Ebel, Heike Marie; Hohloch, Marc; … - 2002
Die Überlastung der vorhandenen Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Ballungsgebieten zu den Hauptverkehrszeiten stellt ein zunehmendes wirtschaftliches und verkehrliches Problem dar. In diesem Beitrag werden Lösungsmöglichkeiten für eine effiziente Verteilung bzw. Allokation des knappen Gutes "Freie...
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Private Options to Use Public Goods Exploiting Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits
Snyder, Lori D.; Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F. - 2003
We develop and apply a new method for estimating the economic benefits of an environmental amenity. The method fits within the household production framework (Becker 1965), and is based upon the notion of estimating the derived demand for a privately traded option to utilize a freely-available...
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Ambiquity and public good provision in large societies
Bailey, Ralph W.; Eichberger, Jürgen; Kelsey, David - 2004
In this paper we consider the effect of ambiguity on the private provision of public goods. Equilibrium is shown to exist and be unique. We examine how provision of the public good changes as the size of the population increases. We show that when there is uncertainty there may be less...
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