The assessment of climate change mitigation policies through economic modeling depends crucially on assumptions under which technological change has been incorporated in the model. Earlier climate-energy-economics modeling attempts heavily relied on the assumption of exogenous technological...

Im Beitrag werden, basierend auf den Daten des Mannheimer Innovationspanels 1993, die Einflußfaktoren umweltorientierter Innovationen in Deutschland in einem multivariaten Kontext ökonometrisch untersucht. Ziel ist es, sowohl allgemeine Strukturen der Einflußfaktoren von Umweltinnovationen zu...

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...