Inhalt

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   Acknowledgements
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   List of Figures
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   List of Tables
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   Résumé long en français
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  General introduction: Facilitation of change
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   Motivation
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   Two-sided uncertainty: Reasons to ask questions differently
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   Different questions require different methods
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   How does this thesis embed in the literature?
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  Outlook on this thesis
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   Major contributions
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   Structure and outlook
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   Associated publications
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  How to accelerate green technology diffusion
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   Introduction
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  Background
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   Directed technological change as evolutionary process
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   Technological change in macroeconomic models of climate change
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   The model
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   Overview of the macroeconomic structure
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   The eco-technology extension of Eurace@unibi
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   Simulation settings and experiments
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  Results
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   The baseline scenario: Two possible technological regimes
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   Barriers to diffusion
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   The empirical content of the model
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   What is the scope for green technology diffusion policies?
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   The impact of policies on the technological evolution
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   Is the effectiveness of policy conditional on the strength and type of diffusion barriers?
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   How can the differential effectiveness of policies be explained?
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   How do different policies affect the firm population?
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   Summary and discussion
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   Concluding remarks
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   Chapter appendix
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   Model documentation
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   Consumption goods firms' production technology
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   Employees' technological learning
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   Capital goods and innovation
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   Green technology producer's market entry
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   Policy
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   Additional notes on the parameter settings
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  Stylized facts and empirical calibration
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   Economic stylized facts for model validation
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   Stylized facts of (eco-)innovation
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  Simulation results
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   Baseline scenario
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   Random barrier experiment
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   Policy experiment
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   Technical notes on statistical procedures
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  Skill transferability and the stability of transition pathways
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   Introduction
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   Related literature
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   Technological knowledge and learning in the literature
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   Technology transitions
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  The Model
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   The concept of technology
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   Technological learning and spillovers
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   Simulations and experiments
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   Results
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   Baseline scenario
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   The technological distance
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   The ease of learning
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   Interactions of spillovers and the ease of learning
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   Discussion
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   Concluding remarks and outlook
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   Chapter appendix
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  Simulation results
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   Baseline
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   Interactions between spillovers and the ease of learning
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   Technical notes on statistical procedures
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  Pathways of transition
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   Introduction
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   Diverse pathways of transition - empirical stylized facts
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  MLP and a dynamic characterization of competing technologies
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   Pathways of transition - theory
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   A characterization of competing technologies
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  A macroeconomic ABM of technology transitions
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   The model
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   The characteristics of competing technologies in Eurace@unibi-eco
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   Simulations and experiments
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   Market-based diffusion policies
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   Technological learning and the effectiveness of diffusion policy
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   Discussion
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   Concluding remarks
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   Chapter appendix
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  Formal description of the model
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   Production of consumption goods
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   Capital goods market
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   Learning by employees
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  Additional information on the simulation results
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   Barriers to diffusion and learning
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   Policy experiment
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   Technical notes on statistical procedures
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   Conclusion
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   Supplementary material
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  Eurace@unibi-eco: Model documentation
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   Motivation and overview
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   The model
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   Consumption goods sector
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   Investment goods sector
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   Households
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   Banks
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   Government
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   Market entry & barriers to diffusion
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   Simulation settings and calibration
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   Illustrative simulation results
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   Outlook
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   Additional information about model validation
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  Technical notes
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   General technical detail on statistical procedures
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   Abstract
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   Résumé court en français