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 …

-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 …

A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system … hindering the movement towards the technological frontier. This paper evaluates the fragmentation of the EU innovation system in … integration of EU countries’ innovation efforts and to assess how citation patterns changed over time. We show that EU RES …

may engage in anti-competitive practices that reduce innovation and consumer welfare. This paper deals with the role of … market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less … should ideally retain value creation while also encouraging small firm entry and innovation. Data has a central role in …

This paper provides a general characterization of overall power regulation and a detailed characterization of the … ongoing evolution of distributed rooftop photovoltaic (PV) regulation in Costa Rica. The paper further develops rooftop PV … the institutional architecture of power regulation in Costa Rica and contrasts it with international best practices …

implemented in Great Britain, Italy and France. Energy suppliers have to fund a given quantity of energy efficiency measures, or …