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The relationship between environmental efficiency and manufacturing firm's growth
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008
This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799164
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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 - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487088
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Examining the factors influencing environmental innovations
Mazzanti, Massimiliano (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003362819
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Are regional systems greening the economy? : the role of environmental innovations and agglomeration forces
Antonioli, Davide; Borghesi, Simone; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2014
significantly inducing innovation within municipal boundaries. Regarding economic performances, firms' productivity is positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344226
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Adoption of eco and circular economy-innovation in Italy : exploring different firm profiles
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Nicolli, Francesco; Pareglio, … - 2022
2019. The set of questions span from economic and financial performances to innovation adoption (product, process … protection, eco-innovation) of the ecological/sustainability transition. If the one-size-fits-all has not been proved a viable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990145
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Polluters and abaters
Nimubona, Alain-Désiré; Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - 2010
To comply with laws, regulations and social demands, polluting firms increasingly purchase the needed means from specialized suppliers. This paper analyzes this relatively recent phenomenon. We show how environmental regulation, the size of the output market, the elasticity of demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747660
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Digging into the technological dimension of environmental productivity
Belloc, Filippo; Valentini, Edilio - 2022
We propose a mixture model approach to identify locally optimal technologies and to dissect environmental productivity (output produced per unit of emission) into a technological and a managerial component. For a large sample of plants covered by the EU ETS, we find that the share of plants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438621
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Green investment strategies and export performance : a firm-level investigation
Antonietti, Roberto; Marzucchi, Alberto - 2013
In this paper we empirically investigate the relationship between investments in environmentally-oriented equipment and firms' export performance. Drawing on Porter hypothesis and firm heterogeneity theory, we adopt a structural model where first we estimate the impact of green investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189327
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The impact of energy prices on employment and environmental performance : evidence from French manufacturing establishments
Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2017
This paper evaluates the historical influence of energy prices on a series of measures of environmental and economic performance for a panel of French manufacturing establishments over the period 1997-2010. The focus on energy prices is motivated by the fact that changes in environmental and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753418
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Environmental justice gap in Italy : the role of industrial agglomerations and regional pollution dispersion capacity
Drigo, Alessandra - 2024
the pollution variation among municipalities within the same province, the per capita income level of municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556626