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Mind the knowledge gap! : the origins of declining business dynamism in a macro agent-based model

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, Enrico - 2023

In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...

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Industrial policy in times of market power

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, Enrico - 2024

knowledge diffusion measures and therefore ensuring that innovation and competition policies advance together. …

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Growth and the geography of knowledge

Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …

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Policy-induced innovation in clean technologies : evidence from the car market

Rozendaal, Rik L.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2021

This article tests the effects of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards on the direction of innovation, in … for the years 2000-2016. Our results indicate that standards are a very robust driver inducing clean innovation, whereas … negatively impact dirty innovation. …

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Abatement innovation in a cournot oligopoly : emission versus output tax incentives

Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2016

efficient technology even in the absence of taxation. When taxation is necessary for innovation, both types of taxes are … effective. However, the energy tax outperforms the emission tax in terms of innovation incentives. …

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Smart products : liability, timing of market introduction, and investments in product safety

Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2019

This paper addresses the role of product liability for the emergence and development of smart products such as autonomous vehicles (AVs). We analyze how the liability regime affects innovative activities, as well as the timing of market introduction and market penetration of such smart products....

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Growth, development, and technological change

Grossmann, Volker (contributor); … - 2007

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Adopt or innovate : understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade

Calel, Raphael - 2018

Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …

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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects

Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023

We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian economy during 2011-2019. We integrate datasets on trade activities, firms', and workers' characteristics for the population of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects...

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Unilateral climate policy, asymmetric backstop adoption, and carbon leakage in a two-region hotelling model

Van der Werf, Edwin - 2010

We study backstop adoption and carbon dioxide emission paths in a two-region model with unilateral climate policy and non-renewable resource consumption. The regions have an equal endowment of the internationally tradable resource and a backstop technology. We first study the case of a...

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