Purpose: “Interdisciplinarity” is a hot topic in science- and technology-policy. However, the concept of “Interdisciplinarity” is both abstract and complex, and therefore difficult to measure using a single indicator. A variety of measures for diversity and interdisciplinarity have been...

The United States Government and other entities such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publish reports of science and engineering indicators.  The increasing attention paid to interdisciplinary research suggests the need to address this new area of interest by...

Between 2006 and 2010 the World Bank sought to unmask the role of science, technology, and innovation in Ugandan industry. This report presents insights from this research based on case studies of six sectors: agriculture, health, energy, information and communication technology (ICT),...

China's approach to developing a world-class science system includes a vigorous set of programmes to attract back Chinese researchers who have overseas training and work experience. No analysis is available to show the performance of these mobile researchers nor do we know the exact impact of...

Purpose - Expanding the research on traditional history of economic ideology into the research on the history of economics composed of three elements - history of ideology, history of policies and events - is a new idea for researching the history of socialist political economy with Chinese...

We study theoretically and numerically the effects of an environmental tax reform using endogenous growth theory. In the theoretical segment, mobile labor between manufacturing and R&D activities, and elasticity of substitution between labor and energy in manufacturing lower than unity allow for...

This paper studies the growth impacts of realizing two long-term carbon targets in Switzerland with alternative steering based climate policies. For this analysis we use the Computable Induced technical change and Energy (CITE) model, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with endogenous...

The paper investigates the long-run consequences of a phase-out of nuclear energy for the Swiss economy. We apply the CITE model, a CGE model with fully endogenous growth, and complement it with a bottom-up model. We find that the nuclear phase-out can be achieved at relatively low costs, even...

This paper examines the effect of host-location financial development (HFD) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in 166 Chinese cities between 2003 and 2009. Using pooled panel and generalized two-stage least square estimators, we find a complementary HFD-FDI nexus, and that this is particularly...

This paper studies when and under what conditions the actions undertaken by the power plants involved in China's emission trading scheme (ETS) pilot became cost-effective. Based on unique plant-level panel data and the difference-in-differences strategy, we identify that an insignificant initial...