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Policy diffusion, lobbying and the taxation of emissions
Michaelis, Peter (contributor); Ziesemer, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
Policy diffusion refers to the process by which a political innovation like the introduction of a novel emission tax disseminates over time among countries. In order to analyze this issue from an economic point of view we develop a simple two-country-model of the taxation of emissions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748047
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Strategic export motives and linking emission markets
Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Tsakiris, Nikos - 2021
We explore the possibility of achieving a cooperative outcome when governments act non-cooperatively in a strategic environmental policy model where emission permit markets are linked. We introduce a specific distribution scheme of the permit revenues between the exporting countries so as to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418620
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The impact of policy diffusion on optimal emission taxes
Michaelis, Peter; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2012
We incorporate the process of policy diffusion (i.e. the uncoordinated dissemination of policies among countries) into a probabilistic two-country-model of strategic environmental policy. Contrary to the usual setting with simultaneous decision making we consider the impact of sequential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009760913
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123781
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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012
This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634265
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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449209
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Competitiveness and Leakage Concerns and Border Carbon Adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012
This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162891
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China's pursuit of environmentally sustainable development : harnessing the new engine of technological innovation
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016
change induced by R&D and knowledge stock accumulation, this paper presents an exposition, both analytically and numerically … incorporated into China’s growth mechanism, then at some tipping point in time when marginal welfare gain of R&D for knowledge …, and R&D have a balanced share of 5: 4: 1, consumption, capital stock, and knowledge stock all grow at a rate of 4.9%, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451689
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China's Pursuit of Environmentally Sustainable Development : Harnessing the New Engine of Technological Innovation
Jin, Wei - 2016
change induced by R&D and knowledge stock accumulation, this paper presents an exposition, both analytically and numerically … incorporated into China's growth mechanism, then at some tipping point in time when marginal welfare gain of R&D for knowledge …, and R&D have a balanced share of 5: 4: 1, consumption, capital stock, and knowledge stock all grow at a rate of 4.9%, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000167
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How do environmental policies affect green innovation and trade? : evidence from the WTO Environmental Database (EDB)
Bellelli, Francesco S.; Xu, Ankai - 2022 - Manuscript date: 4 January 2022
This study investigates how environmental policies impact trade and innovation in environmental goods. We make two major contributions to the economic debate. First, we extract a set of information from the WTO Environmental Database (EDB) through natural language processing techniques that...
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