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Are clean technology and environmental quality conflicting policy goals?
BRECHET, Thierry; MEUNIER, Guy - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012
In this paper we analyze the effects of an environmental policy on the diffusion of a clean technology in an economy where firms compete on the output market. We show that the share of adopting firms is non-monotonic with the stringency of the environmental policy, and that the adoption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927698
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Are clean technology and environmental quality conflicting policy goals?
Bréchet, Thierry; MEUNIER, Guy - Department of Economics, European University at St. … - 2012
In this paper we analyze the effects of an environmental policy on the diffusion of a clean technology in an economy where firms compete on the output market. We show that the share of adopting firms is non-monotonic with the stringency of the environmental policy, and that the adoption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651991
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Environmental Innovation in Germany
Haščič, Ivan - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2012
This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts … of economic activity. The essence of the German approach to policy-induced environmental innovation is discussed in the … transportation. The paper covers environmental and general innovation policies and the cross-cutting issue of policy co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276617
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A note on environmental policy and innovation when governments cannot commit
Montero, Juan Pablo - In: Energy Economics 33 (2011) S1, pp. 13-13
It is widely accepted that one of the most important characteristics of an effective pollution control policy is to provide firms with credible incentives to make long-run investments in R&D that can drastically reduce pollution. Recognizing that a government may be tempted to revise its policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011039667
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors
Rubashkina, Yana; Galeotti, Marzio; Verdolini, Elena - Istituto di Economia e Politica dell'Energia e … - 2014
environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940836
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors
Rubashkina, Yana; Galeotti, Marzio; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941067
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Promotion of Eco-Products and Environmental Regulation with Learning-by-Doing
Kakinaka, Makoto; Kotani, Koji - Graduate School of International Relations, … - 2006
This paper studies a dynamic model of eco-product planning, where an eco-product supplied by a single producer is differentiated from a conventional product generating negative externalities, and the production technology of the eco-product is characterized by learning-by-doing. The result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627448
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Revisiting the porter hypothesis: An empirical analysis of green innovation for the Netherlands
Leeuwen, George van; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
literature as the "weak" and the "strong" version of the Porter hypothesis. Our "Green Innovation" model includes three types of … eco investments and non-eco R&D to explain differences in the incidence of innovation. Besides product and process … innovations we recognize eco-innovation as a separate type of innovation output. We explicitly model the potential synergies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712021
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Unintended Impacts of Multiple Instruments on Technology Adoption
Coria, Jessica - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
There are many situations where environmental authorities use a mix of environmental policy instruments, rather than one single instrument, to address environmental concerns. For example, one instrument may be used to reduce overall emissions of a pollutant while another is used to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207234
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Unintended Impacts of Multiple Instruments on Technology Adoption
Coria, Jessica - 2009
There are many situations where environmental authorities use a mix of environmental policy instruments, rather than one single instrument, to address environmental concerns. For example, one instrument may be used to reduce overall emissions of a pollutant while another is used to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541908