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This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts … of economic activity. The essence of the German approach to policy-induced environmental innovation is discussed in the … transportation. The paper covers environmental and general innovation policies and the cross-cutting issue of policy co …
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This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts … of economic activity. The essence of the German approach to policy-induced environmental innovation is discussed in the … transportation. The paper covers environmental and general innovation policies and the cross-cutting issue of policy co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276617
It is widely accepted that one of the most important characteristics of an effective pollution control policy is to provide firms with credible incentives to make long-run investments in R&D that can drastically reduce pollution. Recognizing that a government may be tempted to revise its policy...
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, turnover, value added, employment, profits, productivity, and innovation. When statistically significant results have been …
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In recent years, cases in which state governments chose to override federal environmental regulation with tighter regulations of their own have become increasingly common, even for pollutants that have substantial spillovers across states. This paper argues that this change arose at least in...
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This paper investigates the implications of the materials balance for optimal environmental policy. We find that neglecting the materials–emissions relationship – as is common in models of optimal environmental regulation – implies biases, whose sign depends on the regulatory instrument...
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well-designed environmental policies can provide a ‘free lunch’ – encouraging innovation, bringing about gains in …
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The paper empirically assesses the effect of climate policy stringency on innovation and economic performance, both … effective at inducing innovation in low-carbon technologies in directly regulated sectors. It does not find evidence that … climate policies induce significant innovation along the supply chain. In addition, there is no evidence that climate policies …
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This paper focuses on the issue of innovation and technology transfer in the areas of air pollution abatement …. It also discusses characteristics of environmental policy regimes that are amenable to encouraging innovation of … of countries' environmental policy regimes) in encouraging innovation. …
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investigate how IPR rules influence the political incentives of states to support clean technology innovation. My formal analysis …, stronger IPR rules may decrease technology innovation. With regard to practical policy implementation, the formal analysis …
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