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Coping with increasing tides: Technological change, agglomeration dynamics and climate hazards in an agent-based evolutionary model
Taberna, Alessandro; Filatova, Tatiana; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2021
By 2050 about 70% of the world's population is expected to live in cities. Cities offer spatial economic advantages that boost agglomeration forces and innovation, fostering further concentration of economic activities. For historic reasons urban clustering occurs along coasts and rivers, which...
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Coping with increasing tides: technological change, agglomeration dynamics and climate hazards in an agent-based evolutionary model
Taberna, Alessandro; Filatova, Tatiana; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2021
By 2050 about 70% of the world's population is expected to live in cities. Cities offer spatial economic advantages that boost agglomeration forces and innovation, fostering further concentration of economic activities. For historic reasons urban clustering occurs along coasts and rivers, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695125
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Geography of Domestic Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As): Evidence from Matched Firm-level Data
Bockerman, Petri; Lehto, Eero - In: Regional Studies 40 (2006) 8, pp. 847-860
Bockerman P. and Lehto E. (2006) Geography of domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As): evidence from matched firm …-level data, Regional Studies 40, 847-860. This paper explores domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from the regional … correspondants, Regional Studies 40, -. Cet article cherche a examiner sur le plan regional les fusions et acquisitions (F …
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Determinants of technology transfer through CDM: The case of China
Weitzel, Matthias; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - 2013
Technology transfer (TT) is not mandatory for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, yet proponents of CDM argue that TT in CDM can bring new technologies to developing countries and thus not only reduce emissions but also foster development. We review the quantitative literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327846
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Determinants of Technology Transfer through CDM: the Case of China
Weitzel, Matthias; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Technology transfer (TT) is not mandatory for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, yet proponents of CDM argue that TT in CDM can bring new technologies to developing countries and thus not only reduce emissions but also foster development. We review the quantitative literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886890
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Are Regional Systems Greening the Economy? the Role of Environmental Innovations and Agglomeration Forces
Antonioli, Davide; Borghesi, Simone; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
The adoption and diffusion of environmental innovations (EIs) is crucial to greening the economy and achieving win-win environmental – economic gains. A large and increasing literature has focused on the levers underlying EIs that are external to the firm, such as stakeholders’ pressure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781886
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Determinants of technology transfer through CDM : the case of China
Weitzel, Matthias; Liu, Wan-hsin; Vaona, Andrea - 2013
Technology transfer (TT) is not mandatory for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, yet proponents of CDM argue that TT in CDM can bring new technologies to developing countries and thus not only reduce emissions but also foster development. We review the quantitative literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226864
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Are regional systems greening the economy? : the role of environmental innovations and agglomeration forces
Antonioli, Davide; Borghesi, Simone; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2014
The adoption and diffusion of environmental innovations (EIs) is crucial to greening the economy and achieving win-win environmental - economic gains. A large and increasing literature has focused on the levers underlying EIs that are external to the firm, such as stakeholders' pressure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344226
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Three Pillars of Urbanization: Migration, Aging, and Growth
Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa; Prettner, Klaus; … - In: De Economist 168 (2020) 2, pp. 259-278
Economic development in industrialized countries is characterized by rising per capita GDP, increasing life expectancy, and an ever greater share of the population living in cities. We explain this pattern within a regional innovation-driven economic growth model with labor mobility and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014504397
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Knowledge Spillovers at the World's Technology Frontier
Keller, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global spillovers favour convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of countries with persistently different levels of income per...
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