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Green start-ups and the role of founder personality
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2022
Green start-ups play a vital role in the needed transition towards more environmentally sustainable economies. Yet our understanding of why some founders start green ventures and others do not remains incomplete. We build on the cognitive and decision-making perspectives on start-ups...
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Energy use patterns in German manufacturing since 2003
Graevenitz, Kathrine von; Rottner, Elisa - 2020
The manufacturing sector accounts for a substantial share of German GDP, employment and carbon emissions. Therefore …
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Challenges and opportunities for sustainable deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage pathways (BECCS) globally
Hayat, Muhammad Adnan; AlHadhrami, Khalid; Elshurafa, Amro - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445937
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Uncertainty about carbon impact and the willingness to avoid CO2 emissions
Pace, Davide Domenico; Imai, Taisuke; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2023
channels for the behavioural impact of such uncertainty, namely risk aversion about the impact of mitigating actions and the … trade-offs between personal gain and (uncertain) carbon impact. We find no evidence that uncertainty affects individual … consumer uncertainty through information campaigns is not a policy panacea and that communicating scientific uncertainty around …
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The impact of carbon disclosure mandates on emissions and financial operating performance
Downar, Benedikt; Ernstberger, Jürgen; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2020
We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the...
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On the emissions-inequality trade-off in energy taxation : evidence on the German car fuel tax
Nikodinoska, Dragana; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce...
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Does drought increase carbon emissions? : evidence from southwestern China
Yang, Jie; Huang, Yijing; Takeuchi, Kenji - 2020
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Regional fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in Saudi Arabia : impacts of electricity price reforms
Darandary, Abdulelah; Mikayilov, Jeyhun I.; Soummane, … - 2022
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Climate protection potentials of digitalized production processes : microeconometric evidence?
Axenbeck, Janna; Niebel, Thomas - 2021
Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the potential to reduce overall energy intensity within economic sectors. While previous empirical evidence is based on aggregated data, this is the first large-scale empirical study...
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The environmental cost of the international job market for economists
Chanel, Olivier; Prati, Alberto; Raux, Morgan - 2021
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