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Environmental Regulations, Market Structure and Technological Progress in Renewable Energy Technology — A Panel Data Study on Wind Turbines

Rübbelke, Dirk; Weiss, Pia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …

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The Role of Standards in Eco-innovation: Lessons for Policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R.J.; Werf, Edwin van der - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and … instruments. Finally we discuss how governments might contribute to eco-innovation by selecting, stimulating or creating (inter …

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors

Rubashkina, Yana; Galeotti, Marzio; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

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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Brown Sunsets and Green Dawns in the Industrial Sector: Environmental Innovations, Firm Behavior and the European Emission Trading

Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental … innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by … instead to be weak: it drives innovation if we compare ETS and non ETS firms, but the stringency itself does not matter, due …

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Clean and Dirty International Technology Diffusion

Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses...

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Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation

Noailly, Joëlle - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …

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Distributional Impacts of Energy-Efficiency Certificates Vs. Taxes and Standards

Quirion, Philippe - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Energy efficiency commitments, often associated with tradable energy efficiency certificates, dubbed "white certificates", were recently implemented in the United Kingdom and Italy and will soon start in France. Energy suppliers have to fund a given quantity of energy efficiency measures, or to...

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Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive U.S. Cap-and-Trade System

Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. I describe and analyze an up- stream, economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade system which implements a gradual trajectory of emissions reductions (with...

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A Meaningful U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Climate Change

Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. In this article, I propose and analyze a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically feasible approach for the United States to...

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Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of Tradable White Certificates Compared to Taxes, Subsidies and Regulations

Quirion, Philippe; Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Tradable White Certificates (TWC) schemes, also labelled Energy-Efficiency Certificates schemes, were recently implemented in Great Britain, Italy and France. Energy suppliers have to fund a given quantity of energy efficiency measures, or to buy so-called "white certificates" from other...

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