Green public procurement has gained high political priority and is argued to be an effective demand-side policy to … investigate the effect of winning green public procurement awards on firms’ introduction of environmental innovations. Employing … cross-sectional difference-in-differences methods, we find that winning green public procurement awards increases a firm …

differences between Germany and other EU countries which affect the shadow price of carbon emissions. We calibrate a Melitz …-type model, extended by firms’ emissions and abatement decisions using data on aggregate output, trade and emissions. The … how regulatory stringency evolved in the EU and Germany in terms of an implicit carbon price paid on emissions. This price …