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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...

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The role of standards in eco-innovation : lessons for policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2013

discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and … instruments. Finally we discuss how governments might contribute to eco-innovation by selecting, stimulating or creating (inter …

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Policy-induced innovation in clean technologies : evidence from the car market

Rozendaal, Rik L.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2021

This article tests the effects of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards on the direction of innovation, in … for the years 2000-2016. Our results indicate that standards are a very robust driver inducing clean innovation, whereas … negatively impact dirty innovation. …

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Adopt or innovate : understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade

Calel, Raphael - 2018

Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …

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Induced innovation and international environmental agreements : evidence from the ozone regime

Dugoua, Eugenie - 2023

phase-out of ozone-depleting substances. I show that the protocol increased science and innovation on alternatives to ozone … readily available. I reconcile theory and empirics by discussing the role of induced innovation in models of environmental …

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Determining the success of carbon capture and storage projects

Thronicker, Dominique; Lange, Ian - 2015

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is regarded as one of the most important technologies to mitigate climate change while providing fossil-fuel based energy security. During the past decade, projects in support of the development and deployment of the technology have been initiated across the...

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Technological transfers in global climate policy

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Dippl, Lisa; Eichenseer, Michael - 2015 - This version: September 30, 2015

Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence show that leadership behavior in climate policy through increased abatement efforts or international transfers cannot be expected to be very successful. In this paper we instead show that pioneering activities, which are based on green technological...

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Green technology adoption and the business cycle

Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Hovsepian, Margot - 2017

We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are the main driver of technological improvements. Firms' beliefs and consumers' anticipations drive the path of the economy. We derive the optimal policy of investment subsidy and...

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Green skills

Vona, Francesco; Marin, Giovanni; Consoli, Davide; … - 2015

The catchword 'green skills' has been common parlance in policy circles for a while, yet there is little systematic empirical research to guide public intervention for meeting the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. The present paper proposes a...

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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors

Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010

policy is likely to increase global emissions. -- technical change ; climate change ; development ; innovation ; spillovers …

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