Climate Technology Strategies 1

Author : Pantelis Capros,Leonidas Mantzos,Patrick Criqui,Nikolaos Kouvaritakis,Antonio Soria Ramirez,Leo Schrattenholzer,E.Lakis Vouyoukas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642586798

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Climate Technology Strategies 1 by Pantelis Capros,Leonidas Mantzos,Patrick Criqui,Nikolaos Kouvaritakis,Antonio Soria Ramirez,Leo Schrattenholzer,E.Lakis Vouyoukas Pdf

The book provides an integrated analysis of the implications for the energy system from adapting to meet climate change targets and analyses the role of improving energy technologies for the world and the EU markets. The first part of the book sets the stage for the analysis by presenting the European and World economic and energy outlook. The second part examines the policy options available for controlling greenhouse gases in the period to 2010. Over such a relatively short period, the role of technology lies mostly in making possible the more efficient use of energy. Finally, the third part of the volume examines the longer term role of technology in the context of a case study for the power generation sector.

Author : Pantelis Capros,Panagiotis Georgakopoulos,Denise van Regemorter,Stef Proost,Tobias F.N. Schmidt,Henrike Koschel,Klaus Conrad,E.Lakis Vouyoukas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642586903

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Climate Technology Strategies 2 by Pantelis Capros,Panagiotis Georgakopoulos,Denise van Regemorter,Stef Proost,Tobias F.N. Schmidt,Henrike Koschel,Klaus Conrad,E.Lakis Vouyoukas Pdf

Climate technology becomes more and more relevant in international environmental policy negotiations. At the Kyoto conference binding emission reduction targets have been established for several regions of the world. The major challenge is how to realize these reduction goals with minimum costs without generating new distributional and social difficulties. The book analyses the macroeconomic structural and distributional impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies for the EU and the member states.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Energy development
ISBN : LCCN:99051995

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Climate Technology Strategies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karl L. Brockmann,Marcus Stronzik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642576911

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Flexible Mechanisms for an Efficient Climate Policy by Karl L. Brockmann,Marcus Stronzik Pdf

In the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, industrialized countries agreed on binding absolute targets for greenhouse gas emissions and on the admission of flexible market-economy instruments - such as emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism - used for reaching the targets. The contributions in this volume reveal that flexible instruments can lower the costs of climate protection considerably - not only in theory, but also in practice. Concerning implementation, it will be necessary to take care of possible loopholes, uncertainties and transaction costs which may be too high if no proper design is chosen.

Author : Oliver Bürgel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642576713

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The Internationalisation of British Start-up Companies in High-Technology Industries by Oliver Bürgel Pdf

The present study analyses the international activities of British start-up companies in high-technology industries. The research makes the following contributions. First, it is the first study that establishes the prevalence of internationally operating start-up companies in a particular country. Accordingly, we find that the majority of British high-tech start-ups have engaged in international activities within a few years since formation. Second, it consolidates the existing knowledge in the fields of international entrepreneurship and subjects it to empirical testing. Third, it assesses the power of different theories in international business to explain the cross-border activities of start-up companies. Overall, the research lends support to a resource-based perspective of international entrepreneurship since the proxies for transaction cost-based arguments and the internationalisation process theory are of limited explanatory power.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000046317643

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Fiscal Year 2000 Budget by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Pdf

Author : Ulrich Kaiser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642574535

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Innovation, Employment, and Firm Performance in the German Service Sector by Ulrich Kaiser Pdf

Empirical and theoretical evidence on the German service sector is inversely related to its growing overall importance for the entire economy. This monograph offers a comprehensive theory-based econometric treatment of three important and severely understudied issues related to services: innovative activity, the effects of innovation on the demand for labour, and the performance of newly founded firms. In addition, the book contains detailed descriptive statistics on innovative activity, skill mix as well as on growth and current economic importance. It offers researchers, policy makers, and practitioners a unique opportunity to gain knowledge on the new German service economy.

Author : Marian Beise
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642575488

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Lead Markets by Marian Beise Pdf

1. 1 Summary This thesis intends to answer three questions: First, what is a lead market; second, what constitutes a lead market, and third, how companies can harness lead markets to generate global innovations. Considering the international, cross-border diffu sion of innovations one can observe that a particular technological design such as the facsimile machine, the personal computer or the mobile cellular telephone is often adopted by one country or region much earlier than by other countries which subsequently follow this country, which I will call the lead market. A lead market is defined as a country that adopts an innovation that is subsequently adopted worldwide. When different designs of an innovation compete internationally, the design preferred in the lead market becomes the global dominant design. The study suggests a theoretical explanation for the phenomena of lead markets and collects empirical evidence from a detailed case study of the cellular mobile tele of an innovation design adopted first phone industry. The international diffusion by the lead market, i. e. subsequent adoption of an innovation design preferred in the lead market by other countries, can be put down to the special market context in the lead market. The market context includes demand preferences, the environ mental condition and the degree of competition. Multinational firms are often confronted not only with varying market acceptance of new products and processes from country to country, but with national prefer ences for particular specifications of an innovation, i. e.

Author : Elke Wolf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642573743

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What Hampers Part-Time Work? by Elke Wolf Pdf

The more I live the more I learn. The more I learn the more I realize the less I know (Alan and Manly Bergman) This book is a slightly revised version of my dissertation thesis "Wages, hours restrictions and employment" accepted in July 2001 by the Department of Economics at Mannheim University. Most of the studies are part of the re search project "Working hours flexibility and employment" (Arbeitszeitjlexi bilisierung und Beschiijtigung) which was conducted at the Centre for Euro pean Economic Research (ZEW) with financial support by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. Now that all the work is complete, nothing remains but to thank all the people who supported the writing of my thesis. Firstly, I am indebted to my advisor Prof. Wolfgang Franz, who always furthered my academic work and encouraged me to take opportunities beyond the standard path. His guiding questions and comments were very valuable in gaining an overview of the whole issue. Furthermore, I am especially grateful to Prof. Daniel Hamermesh, my second advisor. I gained tremendously from the fruitful discussions during my stay at the University of Texas in Austin. His encouragement and verve were essential support factors in the completion of my work. Prof. Arthur van Soest and Prof. Franc;ois Laisney both contributed to the technical and methodological standard of my analysis by patiently discussing various model specifications and nerve-racking convergence problems.

Author : Michael Lechner,Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642576157

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Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies by Michael Lechner,Friedhelm Pfeiffer Pdf

Empirical measurement of impacts of active labour market programmes has started to become a central task of economic researchers. New improved econometric methods have been developed that will probably influence future empirical work in various other fields of economics as well. This volume contains a selection of original papers from leading experts, among them James J. Heckman, Noble Prize Winner 2000 in economics, addressing these econometric issues at the theoretical and empirical level. The theoretical part contains papers on tight bounds of average treatment effects, instrumental variables estimators, impact measurement with multiple programme options and statistical profiling. The empirical part provides the reader with econometric evaluations of active labour market programmes in Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Slovak Republic and Sweden.

Author : Paolo Cecchini,Friedrich Heinemann,Mathias Jopp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642573644

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The Incomplete European Market for Financial Services by Paolo Cecchini,Friedrich Heinemann,Mathias Jopp Pdf

Looking back over the last decade it can be said with some justification that sig nificant progress has been achieved on the way towards fully integrated financial markets in Europe. The 1993 Internal Market initiative and the Euro introduction in 1999/2002 constitute important milestones. The integration process has further been intensified by market developments like the surge in mergers and acquisi tions and by technological innovations like internet based distribution. As a result, some market segments today do no longer have a national character. Nevertheless, this success should not obscure the fact that integration of financial services markets is still a long way from the level of integration that exists within national markets. Particularly for retail financial services national borders still constitute a considerable de facto barrier. The absence of frequent direct cross border links between financial service providers and retail consumers holds true despite the fact that the Euro has made product comparisons easier and that the internet has reduced information costs to a considerable extent.

Author : Jens Köke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642575044

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Corporate Governance in Germany by Jens Köke Pdf

Corporate governance is an important issue on the research agenda of financial economists. Using a new and unique data set of German corporations this book examines three topics that are crucial to a better understanding of corporate governance: (a) the frequency, causes, and consequences of control transfers, (b) the determinants of acquisition and failure, and (c) the role of corporate governance and market discipline for productivity growth. This book points out methodological drawbacks of previous empirical studies and provides suggestions on how to avoid these problems in research practice.

Author : Werner Smolny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642576966

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Endogenous Innovations and Knowledge Spillovers by Werner Smolny Pdf

The recent development of endogenous growth theories has renewed the in terest into the sources of productivity growth of the advanced industrialized economies. The basic advance of these models is that the evolution of tech nological progress is explained endogeneously within the economic model. The most important concept is the idea of endogenous, market-driven inno vations which are seen as the basic source of technological advances. Firms develop sophisticated production techniques and new products in order to reduce costs or to stimulate demand. Equally important is the concept of knowledge spillovers from innovation activities and scale economies associ ated with them. External effects drive a wedge between private and social re turns of innovation activities, and scale economies affect the market structure. In addition, each year's productivity increases exhibit an enormous social value. Therefore, the analysis of endogenous innovations, scale economies, and knowledge spillovers has important implications for economic policy which enhances the interest into empirical investigations of these issues. This book is a collection of theoretical and empirical work on this subject. It combines micro economic and macroeconomic issues; a special emphasis is placed on empirical applications. Much work has been devoted to the search and the preparation of appropriate data, and all models are estimated with panel data. The first two chapters take an aggregate view at the growth process.

Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521015022

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Climate Change 2001: Mitigation by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III. Pdf

IPCC assessment of the scientific, technical, environmental, economic, and social aspects of the mitigation of climate change.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1852 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Federal aid to energy development
ISBN : PSU:000047030190

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Fiscal Year 2000 Department of Energy Budget Authorization Request, Parts I and II by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Pdf