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The Effects of Environmental Policy on the Performance of Environmental RIVs

Katsoulacos, Yannis - 1999

Much of the potential impact of environmental policy is though to come from the incentives it gives firms to develop and introduce new environmental products and processes. Almost all the literature on this issue has focused on the impact of environmental policy on the amount environmental R&D...

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Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation : Personal Computers in the Late 1980's

Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1996

This paper evaluates the sources of transitory market power in the market for personal computers (PCs) during the late 1980's. Our analysis is motivated by the coexistence of low entry barriers into the PC industry and high rates of innovative investment by a small number of PC manufacturers. We...

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The Theory of Allocation and Its Implications for Marketing and Industrial Structure

Carlton, Dennis W. - 1991

This paper identifies a cost of using the price system and from that develops a general theory of allocation. The … theory explains why a buyer's stochastic purchasing behavior matters to a seller. This leads to a theory of optimal customer … mix much akin to the theory of optimal portfolio composition. It is the job of a firm's marketing department to put …

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The Architecture of Economic Systems : Hierarchies and Polyarchies

Sah, Raaj Kumar - 1984

This paper presents some new perspectives on the structure and performance of alternative economic organizations. We posit that decision makers make errors of judgement (for example, they sometimes select bad projects while rejecting good projects), and that how these errors are aggregated...

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Environmental Liabilities, Creditors, and Corporate Pollution : Evidence from the Apex Oil Ruling

Chen, Jianqiang; Hsieh, Pei-Fang; Hsu, Po-Hsuan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We evaluate the impact of the 2008 Apex Oil court decision that made the creditors of some corporations financially liable for the environmental damages caused by specific pollutants. Apex reduced the circumstances under which environmental liabilities were dischargeable in Chapter 11, which...

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Measuring Firm Environmental Performance to Inform Asset Management and Standardized Disclosure

Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Investing according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is gaining momentum. Most environmental performance indices focus only on the tonnage of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. This paper proposes an index covering eight pollutants expressed in monetary damage. Inclusion of...

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Going Green in China : Firms’ Responses to Stricter Environmental Regulations

Fan, Haichao - 2019

This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan. Using a difference-in-differences...

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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Companies are exposed to carbon-transition risk as the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We estimate the market-based premium associated with this transition risk at the firm level in a cross-section of over 14,400 firms in 77 countries. We find a widespread...

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Green Clubs

Veld, Klaas van 't - 2010

club theory and the free-riding externality familiar from the theory on private provision of public goods. We compare three …

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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

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