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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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Industrial ecology in policy making: What is achievable and what is not?

Pothen, Frank - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

A diverse set of tools has been developed in Industrial Ecology to tackle the problems caused by human economic activity. These instruments include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Material Flow Analysis (MFA). Especially LCA is now increasingly used in policy making. Design and Evaluation of...

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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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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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Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation: an explorative analysis using innovation survey data

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do...

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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices

Schröder, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...

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What's Driving Sustainable Energy Consumption? A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Wüstenhagen, Rolf; Schleich, Joachim; Rennings, Klaus; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

The focus of the paper is on the individual decision of energy consumers, and it's relation to sustainable consumption. Consumer behavior is based on individual decisions, but it depends largely on supply-side measures and an appropriate infrastructure (e.g. the availability of energy-efficient...

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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

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

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

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