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What Determines the Inclusion in a Sustainability Stock Index? A Panel Data Analysis for European Companies

Ziegler, Andreas; Schröder, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper examines the determinants of the inclusion of European companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index … and the Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index. In doing so, the paper contributes to the micro-econometric literature … analyzing the determinants and economic effects of sustainability performance in three respects: First, it examines a broad …

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Measuring the immeasurable: a survey of substainability indices

Böhringer, Christoph; Jochem, Patrick - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Sustainability indices for countries provide a one-dimensional metric to valuate country-specific information on the … be performed. This paper reviews the explanatory power of various sustainability indices applied in policy practice. We …

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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

Based on a unique firm level data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of different types of environmental technological innovations. We examine particularly the effects of environmental organizational measures such as...

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The effects of corporate and country sustainability characteristics on the cost of debt: An international investigation

Hoepner, Andreas; Oikonomou, Ioannis; Scholtens, Bert; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …

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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...

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The Clean Development Mechanism: too flexible to produce sustainable development benefits?

Watson, Charlene; Fankhauser, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol has a dual objective: to encourage low-cost emission reduction and to promote sustainable development in the host countries of CDM projects. The CDM has by and large delivered on the first objective but arguably not on the second. This...

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Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism

Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is contro-versial, both due to the conditions through which it is justifed and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...

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A statistical framework for the analysis of productivity and sustainable development

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

To analyse the consequences of the changing economic structure of the UK, we need a set of statistics broken down by industry that are consistent with the whole economy measures available from the national accounts. The theory of growth accounting then provides a framework in which the...

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Do first mover advantages for producers of energy efficient appliances exist? The case of refrigerators

Cleff, Thomas; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Energy efficiency regulation is an important driver for innovations in environmental technologies. Improvements of energy efficiency do not only contribute to reach envi-ronmental policy targets, they can be furthermore economically profitable. E.g. private households can reduce their costs in...

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Urban development and air pollution: evidence from a global panel of cities

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We exploit a unique panel of 75 metro areas (‘cities’) across the globe and employ a cityfixed effects model to identify the determinants of within-city changes in air pollution concentration between 2005 and 2011. Increasing car and population densities significantly reduce air pollution...

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