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Voluntary approaches, market structure and competition

Brau, Rinaldo; Carraro, Carlo - 1999

This paper surveys the recent literature devoted to the analysis of the interactions between the adoption of voluntary or negotiated agreements as a tool of environmental policy and market structure. The goal of this survey is twofold. On the one hand, we would like to identify the market...

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The environmental regime in developing countries

Jha, Raghbendra; Whalley, John - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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Environmental regulation and horizontal mergers in the eco-industry

Canton, Joan; David, Maia; Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - 2008

This paper considers the environmental policy and welfare implications of a merger between environment firms (i.e., firms managing environmental resources or supplying pollution abatement goods and services). The traditional analysis of mergers in Cournot oligopolies is extended in two ways....

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Energy Biased Technical Change: A CGE Analysis

Otto, Vincent M.; Löschel, Andreas; Dellink, Rob - 2005

This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...

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Environmental policy and technological change

Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

change, and in Part 3, we focus on issues related to the empirical analysis of technology innovation and diffusion. Finally …

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The Influence of Environmental Policy on Innovative Behaviour: An Econometric Study

Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1999

The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a … multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey …. The objective is to analyse the general structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the …

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The Growth-Environment Trade-off: Horizontal vs Vertical Innovations

Grimaud, André; Ricci, Francesco - 1999

This paper explores the trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality along two paradigms of endogenous growth theory: variety expansion (HIP) and quality improvements (VIP). We compare the policies that match the decentralised economies' paths with the optimal "strong sustainable"...

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Key Environmental Innovations

Huber, Joseph - 2005

environmental effects. The approaches applied to interpreting the datasets are innovation life cycle analysis, and product chain … innovation. Ambitious environmental standards, though, continue to be an important regulative precondition of ecologically benign … technological innovation. …

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