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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665403
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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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Double dividend of climate protection and the role of international policy coordination in the EU : an applied general equilibrium analysis with the GEM-E3 model
Conrad, Klaus; Schmidt, Tobias F. N. - 1997
While there is some hope that the ongoing climate change negotiations will soon come up with concrete, time scheduled and binding emission reduction commitments, the question of how to achieve these targets is still unsolved. The objective of this paper is to analyse alternative settings of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440942
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Employment adjustments on the internal and external labour market : an empirical study with personnel records of a German company
Gerlach, Knut (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2008
Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805926
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End-of-pipe or cleaner production? : An empirical comparison of environmental innovation decisions across OECD countries
Frondel, Manuel (contributor); Horbach, Jens (contributor);  … - 2004
While both fundamental types of abatement measures mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of production, cleaner production technologies are frequently more advantageous than end-of-pipe technologies for environmental and economic reasons. This paper analyzes a variety of factors that might...
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The impact of informational costs in quantity regulation of pollutants : the case of the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Heindl, Peter - 2011
There is extreme heterogeneity of firms regulated under the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in terms of emissions evels and employed technology. We present a model that shows that behavior of firms under quantity regulation can differ strongly, dependent on the characteristics of the...
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The impact of regulation-driven environmental innovation on innovation success and firm performance
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010
Porter-Hypothese, dass eine strikte Umweltpolitik positive Innovationseffekte generiert, d.h. die regulierungsbedingten … Innovationen. Es gibt allerdings Unterschiede bezüglich der verschiedenen Felder der Umweltpolitik. Regulierungsbedingte … Wettbewerbsfähigkeit nicht zwangsläufig verschlechtern muss, kann bestätigt werden. Es gibt aber Gewinner und Verlierer von Umweltpolitik …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660559
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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439693
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Einige Wirkungen von steuerlichen Umfinanzierungsmaßnahmen in einem makroökonometrischen Ungleichgewichtsmodell für die westdeutsche Volkswirtschaft
Franz, Wolfgang; Göggelmann, Klaus; Winker, Peter - 1997
Gegenstand dieses Beitrags ist eine quantitativ orientierte Diskussion einiger Wirkungen einer Umstrukturierung des Steuersystems anhand der neuesten und wesentlich erweiterten Version des Konstanzer aggregierten Ungleichgewichtsmodells für die westdeutsche Volkswirtschaft für den Zeitraum von...
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Employment effects of publicly financed training programs : the East German experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...
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