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Eco-innovations in the business practice of the companies traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange - an overview of selected results

Janik, Bogna; Kołodziejczyk, Krzysztof - 2015

The main objective of our study is to identify and assess chosen aspects of eco-innovativeness of the companies listed within the indices: WIG Energy, WIG Oil & Gas, WIG Basic Materials on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The scope of this analysis encompasses selected results which facilitate...

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Change in crop management strategies could double the maize yield in Africa

Rezaei, Ehsan Eyshi; Gaiser, Thomas - 2017

Change in cropping practices is required to address the food security issues in Africa. Yet, testing of the performance … was tested against FAO statistics to evaluate the model performance under the current management conditions with …

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North/South contractual design through the REDD+ scheme

Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Poudou, Jean-Christophe; … - 2012

compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation … information rent/efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are … ; Performance ; Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation + (REDD+) …

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Strategic learning and corporate investment

Décaire, Paul H.; Wittry, Michael D. - 2022

Using detailed project-level data, we document a novel mechanism through which information externalities distort investment. Firms anticipate information spillover from peers’ investment decisions and delay project exercise to learn from their peers’ outcomes. To establish a causal...

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Mining for peace

Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...

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Replication: can technology solve the principal-agent problem? : evidence from China's war on air pollution

Garnache, Cloé; Ghosh, Arijit; Gibney, Garreth - 2024

Greenstone et al. examine the effect of the introduction of automatic air pollution monitoring on the reporting of local air pollution in China. Using 654 regression discontinuity designs (RDDs) based on city-level variation in the day that monitoring was automated, they find an immediate and...

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Self-financing of traditional and R&D investments : evidence from Italian SMEs

Brighi, Paola; Patuelli, Roberto; Torluccio, Giuseppe - 2012

Self-financing has often been seen as an important source for research-and-development (R&D) funding. However, an in-depth comparison between the determinants of self-financing in the case of traditional investments versus those in R&D has not been provided yet. We use a comprehensive data set...

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Optimal financing for R􀓕D-intensive firms

Thakor, Richard T.; Lo, Andrew W. - 2017 - This draft: September, 2017

We develop a theory of optimal financing for R&D-intensive firms. With only market financing, the firm relies exclusively on equity financing and carries excess cash, but underinvests in R&D. We use mechanism design to examine how intermediated financing can attentuate this underinvestment. The...

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Share to scare : technology sharing in the absence of intellectual property rights

Jansen, Jos - 2009

I study the incentives of Cournot duopolists to share their technologies with their competitor in markets where intellectual property rights are absent and imitation is costless. The trade-off between a signaling effect and an expropriation effect determines the technology-sharing incentives. In...

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Innovation contests with entry auction

Giebe, Thomas - 2010

We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable effort and private information. We compare two procurement mechanisms where potential sellers first bid in an auction for admission to an innovation contest. After the contest,...

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