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externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …
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Today, evolving technologies have enabled scientific breakthroughs in innovative wind turbine designs, including taller wind turbine towers and longer blades. These breakthroughs will enable utility-scale wind turbines to reach higher into the atmosphere, access stronger winds, and produce...
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. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … more activity - a pattern closely resembling the R&D support path. R&D and innovation are concentrated in few high …-tech countries - such as the U.S. or Germany. Large CSP potential is not a sufficient condition for innovation, only developed …
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. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … more activity - a pattern closely resembling the R&D support path. R&D and innovation are concentrated in few high …-tech countries - such as the U.S. or Germany. Large CSP potential is not a sufficient condition for innovation, only developed …
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This paper studies how innovation reacts to climate change and shapes its economic impacts, focusing on US agriculture …. We show in a model that directed innovation can either mitigate or exacerbate climate change's economic damage depending …. We first find that innovation has re-directed toward crops with increasing extreme-temperature exposure and show that …
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reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away from coal. Yet, the natural gas boom discourages innovation directed at …
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We analyze the quantitative labor market and aggregate effects of a carbon tax in a framework with pollution externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of adjustment influenced by carbon taxes: firm creation and green...
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The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. This paper, which draws upon a...
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The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. This paper, which draws upon a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506424
Why do some governments adopt policies to mitigate climate change while others do not? In this study, I illustrate the importance of industrial organization in shaping prospects for climate mitigation policy. Using a generalized difference-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that...
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