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Taxing the Rent of Non-Renewable Resource Sectors: A Theoretical Note
Daubanes, Julien; Sá, Saraly Andrade de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
This study analyses the economic rent generated by the exploitation of a non-renewable resource, and the taxation of this rent. We present a synthetic model of a non-renewable-resource sector where deposits must be costly developed before they are exploited; the analysis emphasizes the effect of...
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From fossil fuels to renewables : the role of electricity storage
Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda; Pelli, Martino - 2016
, we empirically analyze the determinants of innovation in electricity generation, and the role of storage in directing … innovation. Our results show that electricity storage increases innovation not only in renewables but also in conventional … technologies. This implies that efforts to increase innovation in storage can benefit conventional, fossil fuel-fired electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497793
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Taking time seriously : implications for optimal climate policy
Grubb, Michael; Lange, Rutger-Jan; Cerkez, Nicolas; … - 2020
Induced innovation and associated issues of path dependence and inertia are of critical importance in the transition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404201
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Innovationsfähigkeit: Deutschland weiterhin nur im Mittelfeld
Belitz, Heike; Clemens, Marius; Kirn, Tanja; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 48, pp. 729-736
Die Innovationsfähigkeit der hoch entwickelten Industrieländer ist ihre wichtigste Quelle für Wohlstand und Wachstum. Das DIW Berlin hat in diesem Jahr zum dritten Mal im Auftrag der Deutschen Telekom Stiftung und des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) einen Gesamtindikator für...
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Deutschland im Langzeittrend: langsames Aufholen, aber Absturz bei der Bildung
Belitz, Heike; Clemens, Marius; Kirn, Tanja; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 48, pp. 737-743
Zur Beurteilung der Innovationsfähigkeit eines Landes ist nicht nur seine aktuelle Position im internationalen Vergleich interessant, sondern auch die Entwicklung über längere Zeiträume hinweg. Um die mittelfristige Dynamik des deutschen Innovationssystems im internationalen Vergleich zu...
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Taking Time Seriously: Implications for Optimal Climate Policy
Grubb, Michael; Lange, Rutger-Jan; Cerkez, Nicolas; … - 2020
Induced innovation and associated issues of path dependence and inertia are of critical importance in the transition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427183
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From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage
Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda; Pelli, Martino - 2016
, we empirically analyze the determinants of innovation in electricity generation, and the role of storage in directing … innovation. Our results show that electricity storage increases innovation not only in renewables but also in conventional … technologies. This implies that efforts to increase innovation in storage can benefit conventional, fossil fuel-fired electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522469
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Directed Technical Change with Human Capital and Natural Resources
Croner, Daniel - 2017
This paper investigates the effect of human capital accumulation on the direction of technical Change in a framework with natural resources and environmental externalities. The model simulates that an increasing knowledge stock of worker tends to direct technical change in favour of intangible...
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Strategic resource extraction and substitute development
Michielsen, Thomas O. - In: Resource and Energy Economics 36 (2014) 2, pp. 455-468
We analyze a dynamic game between a buyer and a seller of a nonrenewable resource. The seller chooses resource supply; the buyer can pay a fixed cost to invent a perfect substitute for the resource at any time. In closed-loop equilibrium, the buyer adopts the substitute when the resource is...
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A Comment on Innovation in 'The Environment and Directed Technical Change'
Wiskich, Anthony - 2019
The framework used to endogenise technology growth by Acemoglu, Aghion, Bursztyn, and Hemous (2012), hereafter AABH, allows the existence of unstable equilibria and does not provide a rationale for specifying which equilibrium should apply when more than one exists. This paper: (i) suggests a...
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