Except in few locations, photovoltaic generated electricity remains considerably more expensive than conventional sources. It is however expected that innovation and learning-by-doing will lead to drastic cuts in production cost in the near future. The goal of this paper is to predict the cost...

China is the largest solar photovoltaic cell producer in the world, with more than one third of worldwide production in 2008, exporting more than 95 percent of what it produces. The purpose of this paper is to understand the drivers of this success and its limits, with a particular emphasis on...

Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of...

This paper analyses the relative influence of domestic and foreign demand-pull policies in wind power across OECD countries on the rate of innovation in this technology. We use annual wind power generation to capture the stringency of the portfolio of demand-pull policies in place (e.g.,...

Technology transfer plays a key role in global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, we characterize the factors that promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies using detailed patent data from 96 countries for the period 1995–2007. The...

[fre] Les Accords Volontaires entre l’État et les entreprises sont utilisés par la puissance publique depuis au moins vingt ans. Or depuis quelques années, les firmes s’engagent de plus en plus à améliorer leur performance environnementale ou sociale de manière purement unilatérale....

[eng] This article describes the situation in which municipalities are responsible for selecting the instruments for downstream pricing of household waste disposal services – incentive pricing system or flat-rate tax – while at the same time a national regulator may be in a position to...

The objective of the paper is to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of the main policy issues and key research gaps1. A special emphasis will be put on developing countries in which...

[eng] This study uses the hedonic-price method to assess the impact on residential property values of two policies implemented by the Paris municipality : “ Quartiers Verts ” (“ Green Neighborhoods ”) and “ Quartiers Tranquilles ” (“ Quiet Neighborhoods ”). Both policies aim to...