How can we explain the success of cooperative networks of firms which share innovations, such as Silicon Valley or the Open Source community? This paper shows that if innovations are cumulative, making an invention publicly available to a network of firms may be valuable if the firm expects to benefit from future improvements made by other firms. A...
Après la machine à vapeur, le Taylorisme et le Toyotisme, les robots, les ordinateurs… l’ère est aujourd’hui celle de la digitalisation de l’industrie (ou industrie 4.0, voire d’une quatrième révolution industrielle), de l’intelligence artificielle, de l’internet des objets… La question à laquelle nous allons tenter de répondre dans le cadre de cet...
On peut distinguer deux grandes tendances dans les romans d’A. Eschbach. Les uns, tel Freiheitsgeld, traitent avant tout d’un problème d’actualité, les autres, tel Eines Menschen Flügel relèvent davantage de la tendance classique de la science-fiction, créatrice de nouveaux mondes. Mais à un degré ou à un autre, tous correspondent à une démarche qu...
Durant de nombreuses décennies, la recherche, francophone notamment, s'est opposée sur la question du progrès technique à l’Antiquité. Tandis que le courant « primitiviste » identifie une fracture technique entre l’Antiquité et les périodes qui suivent, en raison d’un blocage des mentalités et de l’esclavage ou d’une déficience technique, le couran...
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international
This article discusses the influence and mechanism of green finance on carbon emission efficiency. Based on the panel data of 27 provinces and municipality in China from 2008 to 2017, the slack-based model of unexpected output is used to measure the efficiency of carbon emissions. On this basis, the Tobit model is used to empirically study the impa...
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international
Pakistan is experiencing increasing CO2 emissions in contrast with other regions of the world. The country is also facing the problems of low economic growth, energy poverty, and environmental pollution. The objective of the study is to analyze economic growth of Pakistan and obtain some alternate sources of production for sustainable environment. ...
The 2008 crisis revived doubts about growth and resuscitated the debate on secular stagnation initiated by Hansen in 1938. Particularly in a post-crisis context of zero or very low growth, Schumpeterian theory may seem to be outdated. Nevertheless, in this article, we show that it remains a valid conceptual framework.We begin by recalling the main ...
Published in Journal of health economics
Controlling for socioeconomic and geographic factors, under-5 mortality (5q0) in developing countries has been declining at about 2.7% per year, a high rate of 'technical progress'. This paper adduces theoretical and empirical reasons for rejecting the usual specification of homogeneous technical progress across countries and uses a panel of 95 dev...
Published in Dynamic Games and Applications
We study the effect of dynamic and investment externalities in a one-sector growth model. In our model, two agents interact strategically in the utilization of capital for consumption, savings, and investment in technical progress. We consider two types of investment choices: complements and substitutes. For each case, we derive the equilibrium and...
A firm's set of knowledge processes may be affected by the entrepreneurial culture of the country in which it is located. Total factor productivity, mainly associated with technical progress, accounts for most differences over time and across countries. In the present work we examine the determinants of total factor productivity growth in 26 OECD c...
