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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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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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Assessing Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring is Not Enough!
Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002
This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...
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Employment impacts of cleaner production: evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999
particular can not be expected to give substantial contributions to the solution of mass unemployment in Germany without using …
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland: Ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt
Böhringer, Christoph; Schwager, Robert - 2002
werden. Dann wird Umweltschutz dort geleistet, wo er am wenigsten kostet. Aus theoretischer Sicht können Abweichungen von … erheblich ab. Über weitreichende Ausnahmen wird die ökologische Lenkungswirkung stark abgeschwächt. Umweltschutz wird damit … die geringe Zahlungsbereitschaft der Wähler für Umweltschutz und die starke sektorale Konzentration von Anpassungskosten …
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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
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The Determinants and Effects of Environmental Product Innovations - An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies
Tuerpitz, Katharina - 2003
The aim of the Integrated Product Policy (IPP) is to promote product-related eco-innovations. These, in turn, depend on both support for the development of environmentally-friendly products and stimulation of demand for such products. However, it is companies that play the crucial role in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297309
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Environmental policy instruments and their effects on innovation
Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1996
The influence of environmental policy on innovative behaviour of companies has so far recieved little attention in scientific discourse. Based on recent literature, the paper analyses the impact of requirements, levies, permits, liability laws, and the EC-eco- audit regulation with respect to...
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