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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238378
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442904
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Environmental innovations and profitability : how does it pay to be green?; an empirical analysis on the German innovation survey
Ghisetti, Claudia; Rennings, Klaus - 2013
Much of the empirical literature analysing the relation between environmental innovation and competitiveness has … difference in terms of economic gains. We find empirical evidence that both the typology of Environmental Innovation and the … empirical strategy is based on a sample of German firms and makes use of a merge of two waves of the Mannheim Innovation Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128710
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Grenzen und Reichweiten nationaler Innovationssysteme und forschungspolitische Implikationen
Spielkamp, Alfred - 1997
importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440884
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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries
Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016
dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563084
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Alleviating adverse implications of EU climate policy on competitiveness : the case for border tax adjustments or the clean development mechanism?
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
Ambitious unilateral EU environmental policy has raised concerns about adverse competitiveness implications for European energy-intensive and export-oriented sectors. We analyze the economic and environmental implications of two different measures to address these concerns in the EU Emission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777863
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The impact of the European Union emissions trading scheme on competitiveness in Europe
Oberndorfer, Ulrich (contributor);  … - 2006
This literature review analyses the impacts of the EU ETS on competitiveness focussing on existing simulation studies. We have identified the choice of the reference scenario as the most critical issue for an appropriate analysis of the relevant literature. We find, however, that effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003357010
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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 Trading Scheme (ETS) to emerging trading schemes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480083
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Tax competition in Europe : Europe in competition with other world regions?
Streif, Frank - 2015 - This version: 16 November 2015
Corporate tax levels have fallen substantially in Europe during the last decades. A broad literature has identified tax competition as one reason for this decline in corporate tax levels. However, none of these studies explicitly asks the question whether tax competition within regions is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391793
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The EU decarbonisation roadmap 2050 : what way to walk?
Hübler, Michael; Löschel, Andreas - 2013 - This version: 16/04/2013
We carry out a detailed CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) analysis of the EU Decarbonisation Roadmap 2050 on a macroeconomic and on a sectoral level. Herein, we study a Reference scenario that implements existing EU policies as well as 3 unilateral and 3 global climate action scenarios. We...
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