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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions
Achtnicht, Martin - 2009
Motorised individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887988
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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms
Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010
die Firmen zwischen keinem, wenig, mittlerem und hohem Beitrag zum Umweltschutz der eingeführten Innovationen wählen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665403
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Employment impacts of cleaner production : evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999
The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....
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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
Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008938022
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447190
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447631
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445814
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448250
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Asset pricing without garbage
Kroencke, Tim-Alexander - 2013
This paper provides an explanation why garbage as a measure of consumption implies a several times lower coefficient of relative risk aversion in the consumption-based asset pricing model than consumption based on the official National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA): Unlike garbage, NIPA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128712
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Efficieny losses from overlapping economic instruments in European carbon emissions regulation
Böhringer, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2006
Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states especially in Germany are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses from simultaneous application of emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative and...
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