This paper is dealing with mechanisms that can accelerate the global diffusion of climate-friendly technologies. The accelerated diffusion of low-carbon technology innovation can possibly be achieved by interactive processes such as: (1) mutually reinforcing cycles of policy-induced domestic market growth, innovation, and policy feedback; (2) lead markets and political lesson-drawing, the reinf...

The growing focus on technology diffusion, learning and absorptive capacity in Research and Technological Development (RTD) policy poses important challenges to both those who use and those who do evaluations. The type of evaluation that should be done in any given situation depends not on some general principle but on the policy makers’ practical needs for learning and accountability. Evaluati...

The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. The article by Robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...

Abstract: We prove that an (S, S) policy is optimal in a continuous-review stochastic inventory model with a fixed ordering cost when the demand is (i) a diffusion process and a compound Poisson process with exponentially distributed jump sizes, and (ii) a mixture of a constant demand and a compound Poisson process. The proof uses the theory of impulse control. The Bellman equation of dynamic p...

This paper develops initial steps towards a framework for understanding factors that condition success and failure of complex market technologies. Dynamics of such technologies are conditioned by coevolutionary processes including the development of the installed base, consumer behavior, technologies, complementarities and interlinked supply chains. This paper analyzes diffusion patterns, inclu...

A computational solution is found for a optimal consumption and portfolio policy problem in which the underlying stock satisfies a geometric jump–diffusion in which both the diffusion and jump amplitude are log– normally distributed. The optimal objective is to maximize the expected, discounted utility of terminal wealth and the cumulative discounted utility of instantaneous consumption. The ju...

A computational solution is found for a optimal consumption and portfolio policy problem in which the underlying stock satisfies a geometric jump–diffusion in which both the diffusion and jump amplitude are log–normally distributed. The optimal objective is to maximize the expected, discounted utility of terminal wealth and the cumulative discounted utility of instantaneous consumption. The jum...

Introduction General Overviews Datasets Country Reports and Qualitative Data Journals Definitions of Federalism Federalism’s Purpose and Performance Economic Growth Economic Efficiency Deficit Reduction Corruption Redistribution and Unified Policy-Making Policy Innovation & Diffusion Peace-Preserving Federalism Secession Participation Effect on the Party System Understanding Variation in Federa...