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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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Green innovations and organizational change : making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014 - This version - February 2014

find empirical support for complementarity between green technology adoption and organisational change for a sample of … green technologies. …

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Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact : the role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian; Rennings, Klaus - 2011

for pushing firms to reduce air (e.g. CO2, SO2 or NOx) as well as water or noise emissions, avoid hazardous substances and …

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The determinants and effects of environmental product innovations - an analysis on the basis of case studies

Türpitz, Katharina (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Unmasking the Porter hypothesis : environmental innovations and firm-profitability

Rexhäuser, Sascha; Rammer, Christian - 2011

We examine impacts of different types of environmental innovations on firm profits. Following Porter’s (1991) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms’ competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary environmental innovations. We find that innovations which...

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The demand for global and local environmental protection : experimental evidence from climate change mitigation in Beijing

Löschel, Andreas; Pei, Jiansuo; Sturm, Bodo; Wang, Ran; … - 2018

purchasing permits from two Chinese CO2 emissions trading schemes (ETS). Purchased permits were withdrawn from the ETS. Since CO2 … emissions mitigation is inevitably linked to other local benefits like the reduction in emissions of air pollutants, the aim of … Beijing is driven by concerns for local co-benefits of CO2 emissions reduction. Our research identifies the important role of …

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Economic effects of VAT reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - 2006

In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...

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Not employed 37 hours or employed 41? : A CGE analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus (contributor); Koschel, Henrike (contributor); … - 2005

The objective of our analysis is to find out whether an increase in working time without pay compensation can be considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous: On the one hand, as the increase in working time...

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Efficieny losses from overlapping economic instruments in European carbon emissions regulation

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2006

emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative and quantitative terms within a partial equilibrium framework for the EU …. It turns out that those firms within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) which at the same time are subject to … the EU ETS are ecologically ineffective and subsidise net permit buyers. Thus, all firms that are subject to emissions …

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Cost pass-through in strategic oligopoly : sectoral evidence for the EU ETS

Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria - 2010

cost pass-through is by far the prevailing behaviour of German energy-intensive sectors participating in the EU Emissions … of how market structure affects climate change policies. -- Cost pass-through ; strategic oligopoly ; emissions trading …

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