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Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between ?dirty? (internal combustion engine) and ?clean? (e.g. electric an...Read more...
Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezlepretre, David Hemous, Ralf Martin and John Van Reenen
30 November 2012
New inventions are good for economic growth, but equally important are improvements in the way we make things - what's known as process innovation. Tim Leunig and Joachim Voth measure the impact of two such innovations -...Read more...
Tim Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth
26 October 2011
Economists and economic historians want to know how much better life is today than in the past. Fifty years ago economic historians found surprisingly small gains from 19th century US railroads, while more recently econo...Read more...
May 2011