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| Guo, Xiang-Yu; Yu, Zhi-Gang; Schmit, Todd M.; Henehan, Brian M.; Li, Dan. |
| China prioritized a New Socialist Countryside reform policy in 2005 to address the growing disparities in incomes and living standards between rural and urban populations. These policies are evaluated to provide a base line index of reform concerning farmer, agricultural, and rural economic development. Aggregate index scores are computed to rank provincial progress. Rankings indicate the progression of rural economic reform is moderate, at best, and mostly isolated to well-developed eastern provinces. Reform growth is also uneven across similarly, rural provinces indicating a need for continued attention in these poorer areas. More importantly, as reform efforts continue, the empirical framework established can be used to track relative performance over... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: China; Factor Analysis; New Socialist Countryside; Policy Evaluation; International Development; Political Economy; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49002 |
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| Calel, Raphael; Dechezlepretre, Antoine. |
| The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has aimed to encourage the development of low-carbon technologies by putting a price on carbon emissions. Using a newly constructed data set that links 8.5 million European companies with their patenting history and their regulatory status under EU ETS, we investigate the hypothesis that the EU ETS has encouraged development of low-carbon technologies. Exploratory data analysis reveals a rapid increase in low-carbon patenting activities at the EPO since 2005, especially among EU ETS regulated companies during the Scheme's second phase. Naive estimates obtained by comparing EU ETS and non-EU ETS firms suggest that the Scheme may be responsible for up to 30% of the increase in low-carbon patenting of... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Directed Technological Change; EU Emissions Trading Scheme; Policy Evaluation; Q54; Q58. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122867 |
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