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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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externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …
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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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Innovation and insurance are two important options for the agricultural sector to adapt to climate change. However, how … investigating the effects of crop insurance on agricultural innovation in the context of climate change. We first develop a … the conceptual framework are tested by using data for agricultural innovation, climate, and crop insurance associated with …
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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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The U.S. and China are the world’s largest and second largest CO2 emitters, respectively, and to what extent the U.S. and China get involved in combating global climate change is extremely important both for lowering compliance costs of climate mitigation and adaptation and for moving...
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In this paper we argue that when a subgroup of countries cooperate on emission reduction, the optimal response of non-signatory countries reflects the interaction between three potentially opposing factors, the incentive to free-ride on the benefits of cooperation, the incentive to expand the...
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We study potential impacts of future climate change on U.S. agricultural productivity using county‐level yield and weather data from 1950 to 2015. To account for adaptation of production to different weather conditions, it is crucial to allow for both spatial and temporal variation in the...
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We study potential impacts of future climate change on U.S. agricultural productivity using county-level yield and weather data from 1950 to 2015. To account for adaptation of production to different weather conditions, it is crucial to allow for both spacial and temporal variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014033654