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Developing supra-European emissions trading schemes : an efficiency and international trade analysis

Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria (contributor); … - 2007

Given the coexistent EU priorities concerning the competitiveness of European industries and international emissions … regulation at the company level, this paper assesses the efficiency and competitiveness implications of linking the EU Emissions … equilibrium approach shows that the aggregate welfare impacts of linking the EU ETS are rather limited. We further find that the …

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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts : is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2013

Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a...

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Elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty energy inputs : a macroeconomic perspective

Papageorgiou, Chris; Saam, Marianne; Schulte, Patrick - 2013

Recently Acemolgu, Aghion, Bursztyn and Hemous (AER 2012) formulated a model in which a high macroeconomic elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty production represents a crucial condition for green growth. Until now it has never been systematically estimated. Using a novel panel of...

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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010

- auch von nicht marktbasierten Instrumenten der Umweltpolitik durchaus langfristige Innovationsanreize ausgehen können …

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Mitigating market power under tradeable permits

Heindl, Peter - 2012

As shown by R. Hahn [6], free allocation equal to the amount of permits a firm with market power uses in equilibrium, can prevent welfare losses. If the necessary amount of free allocation is not provided to the firm with market power, a second best solution is obtained where marginal abatement...

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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

This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new technologies if complementary organisational changes...

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A regulatory framework for a policy of sustainability : lessons from the neo-liberal school

Rennings, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Brockmann, Karl Ludwig; … - 1997

In this paper targets, institutions and policy measures for describing and implementing sustainable development are evaluated in terms of their conformity with the economic framework of a market system. Firstly, from the viewpoint of neo-liberal economic thinking as conceived by the German...

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Towards a theory and policy of eco-innovation : neoclassical and (co-)evolutionary perspectives

Rennings, Klaus - 1998

Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the past years. Since existing theoretical and methodological frameworks do not address these problems adequately, research need can be identified to improve our understanding of...

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Cooperation in international environmental negotiations due to a preference for equity

Lange, Andreas; Vogt, Carla - 2001

This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner's dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or defect, in addition to the standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large...

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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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