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environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …
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produced by climate-economy models while introducing the dimension of uncertainty in innovation ef- forts, without succumbing … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels … innovation to improve the performance of these technologies. We employ an IAM (WITCH) which has a fairly rich description of the …
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Cap-and-trade systems have emerged as the preferred national and regional instrument for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism' an international emission-reduction-credit system' has developed a substantial constituency,...
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Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a …/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental innovation may spur from exogenous driving forces, like policy intervention, and/or from … order to assess what forces are lying behind environmental innovation at the level of the firm, where innovative practices …
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China’s unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation sector, to improve its operational efficiency. Meanwhile, great concern about a range of environmental problems and global climate change increasingly calls for saving energy...
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In this paper we build an endogenous growth model where human capital and ideas are complements in the long-run equilibrium and technological progress takes the form of a continuous increase in the number of horizontally differentiated varieties of intermediate inputs. One peculiarity of the...
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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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efficiency-improving vertical innovation model where energy technological progress is specified as an improvement in primary … energy use efficiency. Then a variety-expanding horizontal innovation model is presented where energy technological progress … technology tend to diverge due to cross-country differences in indigenous innovation efficiencies and knowledge absorptive …
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Climate regulations tend to target energy intensive sectors whose products are widely used in industrial production as intermediate inputs, such as electricity, and the carbon abatement may be partially offset by intermediate input-led leakage. This paper aims to examine the impact of...
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investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and … and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable growth path. We show that if R&D technological innovation is … environmental quality improves at a rate of 2.5%. In contrast, if R&D technological innovation is not harnessed as a new growth …
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