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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms
Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010
This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...
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Environmental Regulation and International Trade
Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Withagen, Cees A. - 2004
, ‘pollution havens’ emerge in countries where environmental regulation is ‘over-lax.’ We examine the impact of pollution abatement … equilibrium model of trade and pollution nesting the pollution haven motive for trade with the factor endowment motive. We analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325249
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Umweltpolitik und Innovation: Grundlegende Begriffe und Zusammenhänge
Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1996
Im Rückgriff auf die Innovationsforschung wird ein Ansatz für eine gemeinsame Sprache und eine konsistente Systematik für Innovationen im Umweltbereich entwickelt. Dazu werden einige allgemeine Begriffsdefinitionen der Innovationsforschung erläutert, der Begriff Umweltinnovation eingeführt...
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Evaluating environmental programs: the perspective of modern evaluation research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
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Perseverance of Perverse Subsidies and their Impact on Trade and the Environment
van Beers, Cees; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2000
Theoretical and empirical aspects of policy failures due to subsidies are discussed in the context of international trade. A general classification of subsidies that cause environmental externalities is presented. The economic and environmental impacts of producer subsidies on international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324451
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Environmental Responsibility and Policy in a Two Country Dynamic Input-Output Model
Hoekstra, Rutger; Janssen, Marco A. - 2002
Increased spatial dependency of economic activities, as well as spatial differentiation of production and consumption, has implication for environmental policy. One of the issues that has gained importance is the responsibility for the emissions from products that cross national boundaries...
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness
Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Withagen, Cees A.A.M. - 2001
The potential relationship between domestic environmental regulation and internationalcompetitiveness has evoked various speculations. The common neoclassical train of thought is thatstrict environmental regulation is detrimental to the competitiveness of industry, and that itinduces phenomena...
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Oligopolistic Competition in Price and Quality
Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C.W. - 2008
neither. We show that two types of signalling equilibria are possible. Both are characterised by dispersion and Pareto …
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Dynamics of China's Regional Development and Pollution
de Groot, Henri L.F.M.; Withagen, Cees A.; Minliang, Zhou - 2001
covering the period 1982-1997. The types of pollution included in the studyare wastewater, waste gas and solid waste. We … consider the development of the sources ofpollution in a pooled cross-section analysis considering the pollution in absolute … emissions tends to decelerate, but accelerates again at high levels of GDP per capita.Water pollution decreases with per capita …
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Geographical Economics and the Role of Pollution on Location
van Marrewijk, Charles - 2005
equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and … negative pollution externalities associated with local production. We distinguish between two goods (food and manufactures) and … activity tends to become less attractive with pollution, and thus less likely. Moreover, we provide a simple necessary and …
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