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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : empirical evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European manufacturing sectors
Rubashkina, Yana; Galeotti, Marzio; Verdolini, Elena - 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 … regulation on the output of innovation activity, as proxied by patents, thus providing support in favor of the "weak" PH in line …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413622
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The impact of environmental regulation on innovation and international competitiveness
Fabrizi, Andrea; Gentile, Marco; Guarini, Giulio; … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484116
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Cost heterogeneity and the potential savings from market-based policies
Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2002
Policy makers and analysts are often faced with situations where it is unclear whether market-based instruments hold real promise of reducing costs, relative to conventional uniform standards. We develop analytic expressions that can be employed with modest amounts of information to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597106
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The impact of ISO 14001 environmental standards on exports
Blyde, Juan S. - 2021
Analyses that examine the role of international standards on export performance has been concentrated on quality certifications. Very little is known about the impact of environmental certifications on exports. In this paper we employ firm-level data from Ecuador to assess the impact of the ISO...
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Global competition and the environmental performance of resource firms : is the "race to the bottom" inevitable?
Clark, Gordon L. - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000878693
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Environmental regulation and industry location
Mulatu, Abay; Gerlagh, Reyer; Rigby, Dan; Wossink, Ada - 2009
This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on industry location and compares it with other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809098
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Unraveling the world-wide pollution haven effect
Grether, Jean-Marie (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003605716
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Unravelling the worldwide pollution haven effect
Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.; De Melo, Jaime - 2011
This paper tackles the "pollution haven" argument by estimating the pollution content of imports (PCI). The PCI is then decomposed into three components: (i) a "deep" component (i.e. traditional variables unrelated to the environmental debate); (ii) a factor endowment component and (iii) a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376075
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Is offshoring driven by air emissions? : testing the pollution haven effect for imports of intermediates
Michel, Bernhard - 2013
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The role of standards in eco-innovation : lessons for policymakers
Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2013
This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we discuss what standards are, how the process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189330