Lionel Nesta, Elena Verdolini and Francesco Vona

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Threshold Policy Effects and Directed Technical Change in Energy Innovation

This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over the period 1990-2012. Our novelty is to use threshold regression models to allow for discontinuities in policy effectiveness depending on a country’s relative competencies in renewable and fossil fuel technologies. We show that the dynamic incentives of environmental […]

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