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Learning and Technology Adoptions
Scholz, Sebastian - 2010
This essay studies the optimal timing for a firm to adopt a new process innovation in the presence of learning. A …
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Three essays in dynamic economic analysis
Scholz, Sebastian - 2010
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On backstops and boomerangs : environmental R&D under technological uncertainty
Goeschl, Timo; Perino, Grischa - 2007
The literature on environmental R&D frequently studies innovation as a two-stage process, with a single R&D event … leading from a conventional polluting technology to a perfectly clean backstop. We allow for uncertainty in innovation in that … once. Using and externding recent results from multi-stage optimal control theory, we provide a full characterization of …
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Environmental regulation and innovation in renewable energy technologies : does the policy instrument matter?
Hille, Erik; Althammer, Wilhelm; Diederich, Henning - 2019 - Version February 24, 2019
We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e. design and intensity, and their effects on innovation. The patent data is based on …, the positive effect on patenting activity increases significantly over time with an increase in the duration of the …
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From mind to market : a global, dynamic analysis of R&D
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Smrkolj, Grega; Wagener, Florian … - 2011
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The role of industrial policies in the development of a competitive wind energy industry : the Danish and Chinese sectoral innovation systems
Botta, Enrico - In: Politica economica, journal of economic policy 32 (2016) 2, pp. 211-252
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Sooner Rather than Later : Social Networks and Technology Adoption
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; Sun, Yi - 2021
Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...
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Optimal R&D investment with learning-by-doing : multiple steady-states and thresholds
Greiner, Alfred; Bondarev, Anton - 2017
invests in horizontal and vertical innovations. We posit that learning-by-doing makes the process of quality improvements a …
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Dynamic heterogeneous R&D with cross-technologies interactions
Bondarev, Anton; Krysiak, Frank C. - 2017
In many countries, inducing large-scale technological changes has become an important policy objective, as in the context of climate policy or energy transitions. Such large-scale changes require the development of strongly interlinked technologies. But current economic models have little...
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The timing of climate agreements under multiple externalities
Schmidt, Robert C.; Strausz, Roland - 2011
We study the potential of cooperation in global emission abatements with multiple externalities. Using a two-country model without side-payments, we identify the strategic effects under different timing regimes of cooperation. We obtain a positive complementarity effect of long-term cooperation...
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