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Incentives for environmental R&D

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be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R …

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Financial constraints and other obstacles: are they a threat to innovation activity?

Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz; van der Loeff, Sybrand Schim - 2008

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms' decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down,...

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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations

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Identity and Economic Incentives

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Vertical Integration in Tradable Green Certificate Markets

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Price-dependent profit sharing as an escape from the Bertrand paradox

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firms undertake investments which benefit the industry in aggregate. The model is consistent with observations from the …

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Optimal energy investment and R&D strategies to stabilise Greenhouse Gas atmospheric concentrations

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The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...

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Investment Policy for Time-Inconsistent Discounters

Harstad, Bård - 2013

the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future … savings and decrease investments in the strategic substitutes, for example. To characterize the principal's choices they are … benefits from subsidizing investments in green capital (complementary to future savings) and tax investments in substitute …

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Estimating Fluctuations in Oil and Gas Investment

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