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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932005
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Learning abatement costs: On the dynamics of optimal regulation of experience goods
Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - 2012
We study the introduction of new technologies when their costs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty and can only be fully learned through individual experience. We set up a dynamic model of clean experience goods that replace old polluting consumption options and show how optimal regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291530
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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908663
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Regulation, Institutions, and Productivity: New Macroeconomic Evidence from OECD Countries
Egert, Balazs - 2017
levels and that higher innovation intensity and greater openness go in tandem with higher MFP. We also find that the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657128
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Legal institutions, innovation and growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274865
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Privacy Regulation and Quality-Enhancing Innovation
Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo; Toh, Ying Lei - 2023
-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist—who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties—and consumer surplus …. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and … effect on innovation. In this case, there is no trade-off between privacy and innovation and users always benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377519
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Asymmetric Innovation Agreements under Environmental Regulation
Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C.D. - 2017
domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of three innovation agreements: cooperative research joint venture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777647
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Privacy Regulation and Quality-Enhancing Innovation
Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo; Toh, Ying Lei - 2023
-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist—who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties—and consumer surplus …. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and … effect on innovation. In this case, there is no trade-off between privacy and innovation and users always benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346842
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Carbon Tax Burdens on Low-Income Households: A Reason for Delaying Climate Policy?
Parry, Ian - 2015
This paper discusses techniques for measuring the incidence of carbon taxes across different household income groups and provides some cross-country estimates of these effects for selected advanced countries. The general message of this paper is that distributional concerns should not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388157
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Technology Transfers for Climate Change
Elsayyad, May; Morath, Florian - 2013
This paper considers investments in cost-reducing technology in the context of contributions to climate protection. Contributions to mitigating climate change are analyzed in a two-period model where later contributions can be based on better information, but delaying the contribution to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328780