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Environmental R&D
Hoel, Michael - 2010
The topic of this note is issues related to R&D expenditures leading to improved technologies for reducing environmentally harmful emissions. The focus is on he following questions: Will a market economy where environmental policies are restricted to taxes or quotas give the socially efficient...
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Complementarity between Environmental Efficiency and Labour Productivity in a Cumulative Growth Process
Guarini, Giulio - 2015
The aim of this paper is to analyse the potential complementarity between environmental efficiency and labour productivity within growth process in theoretical and empirical terms. Firstly, I analyse the theoretical elements that justify the positive relationship between the two efficiencies....
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Green Technology Adoption and the Business Cycle
Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2018
We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are …
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Cities and Green Growth : A Conceptual Framework
Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - 2011
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...
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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
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Environmental R&D with Permits Trading
Atallah, Gamal - 2016
This paper models the simultaneous investments in cost-reducing and environmental R&D by asymmetric firms competing à la Cournot. Pollution rights are allocated by the regulator, and firms can trade pollution permits. Both R&D competition and R&D cooperation are considered; in the latter case,...
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Chapter 7. Cities and the Environment
Kahn, Matthew E.; Walsh, Randall - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 405-465). 2015
This chapter surveys recent literature examining the relationship between environmental amenities and urban growth. In this survey, we focus on the role of both exogenous attributes such as climate and coastal access and endogenous attributes such as local air pollution and green space. A city's...
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Technological change, entry and stock market dynamics : an analysis of transition in a monopolistic economy
Datta, Bipasa; Dixon, Huw - 2002
valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 3 transactions free zones
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
In Chapter 2 we saw that the most economical locations for transactions in a task network are the so-called thin crossing points—places where transfers are easy to define, count and pay for. However, in many places in the task network, transfers of material, energy, and information are so...
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 7 the value structure of technologies, part 2 : strategy without numbers
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
Functional analysis as set forth in the last chapter decomposes a technical system into functional components that do things to advance the system’s purpose and the goals of its designers. Functional analysis in turn can be used to construct value structure maps of technical systems. Such maps...
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