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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822371
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Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: a review of cross country evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2005
of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267501
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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497983
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Determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure: Evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Ana … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses on developed economies. Specifically, we use survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822209
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Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous
Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Jayjit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246700
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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884082
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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure: evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses on developed economies. Specifically, we use survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269381
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Pollution abatement and control expenditure in Romania: A multilevel analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269924
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Three new empirical tests of the pollution haven hypothesis when environmental regulation is endogenous
Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Jayjit - 2011
The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278607
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The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values
Billings, Stephen B.; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2017
The presence of lead paint significantly impairs cognitive and behavioral development, yet little is known about the value to households of avoiding this residence-specific environmental health risk. In this paper, we estimate the benefits of lead-paint remediation on housing prices. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744585