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Developing Supra-European Emissions Trading Schemes : An Efficiency and International Trade Analysis

Alexeeva-Talebi, Viktoria; Anger, Niels - 2008

Given the coexistent EU priorities concerning the competitiveness of European industries and international emissions … regulation at the company level, this paper assesses the efficiency and competitiveness implications of linking the EU Emissions … equilibrium approach shows that the aggregate welfare impacts of linking the EU ETS are rather limited. We further find that the …

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Unmasking the Porter Hypothesis : Environmental Innovations and Firm-Profitability

Rammer, Christian - 2011

We examine impacts of different types of environmental innovations on firm profits. Following Porter's (1991) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms' competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary environmental innovations. We find that innovations which...

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From Less Promising to Green? Technological Opportunities and Their Role in (Green) ICT Innovation

Cecere, Grazia; Rexhauser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2016

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative; (2) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas...

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Energy Biased Technical Change : A Cge Analysis

Löschel, Andreas; Otto, Vincent M.; Dellink, Rob - 2008

This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...

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On the Effects of Unilateral Environmental Policy on Offshoring in Multi-Stage Production Processes

Schenker, Oliver - 2015

In the last decades supply chains emerged that stretch across many countries. This has been explained with decreasing trade and communication costs. We extend the literature by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first...

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European Telecommunication Regulation - Effects on Telecommunication Providers

Veith, Tobias - 2010

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a repeating AR-GARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and...

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The National Regulatory Structure Against the Background of the European Regulatory System

Veith, Tobias - 2010

States and their representatives, national governments, play a key role in national telecommunication markets. As lawmakers, they determine the playing field of the agents in the markets and the decision powers of national regulators. Simultaneously, they are involved in appointing presidential...

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Nonlinearity in Cap-and-Trade Systems : The EUA Price and its Fundamentals

Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2013

In this paper we examine the nonlinear relation between the EUA price and its fundamentals, such as energy prices, macroeconomic risk factors and weather conditions. By estimating a Markov regime-switching model, we find that the relation between the EUA price and its fundamentals varies over...

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Climate Policy and the Problem of Competitiveness : Border Tax Adjustments or Integrated Emission Trading?

Alexeeva-Talebi, Viktoria - 2008

In the absence of an international agreement on climate policy, unilateral carbon abatement creates two problems: It tends to have a detrimental effect on domestic competitiveness, and it leads to an increase in carbon emissions abroad (leakage). This paper analyses two policies that have...

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Speeding Up the Internet : Regulation and Investment in European Fiber Optic Infrastructure

Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2017

incumbent telecom operators and heterogeneous entrants and test its main predictions using panel data from 27 EU member states …

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