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We examine the extent to which environmental regulation affects innovation and which policy types provide the strongest incentives to innovate. Using a local projection framework, we estimate the regulatory impact on patenting activity over a five-year horizon. As a proxy for environmental...
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This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm-level. We exploit several data sources and the environmental policy stringency index, to evaluate the Porter hypothesis, according to which firms' productivity can benefit from more...
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When consumption of water and other utilities is measured collectively and payment for such services is equally shared … installation of individual meters affects water consumption. Using rich administrative data from the public water utility company … in Quito, Ecuador, it is estimated that water consumption decreases by about 8% as a result of the introduction of …
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considered given that Italy is a main country in the EU. Thus it offers important pieces on information on the evaluation of …
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We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that proposals obtain more yes-votes if they do not restrict consumption possibilities directly, if they are endorsed by the largest business association, if environmental preferences...
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Using a panel of 24 OECD countries for the sample 1990-2019 and a standard macroeconomic framework, the paper tests the combined macroeconomic effects of climate change, environmental policies and technology. Overall, we find evidence of significant macroeconomic effects over the business cycle:...
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