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Emissions trading and productivity : firm-level evidence from German manufacturing

Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2016

I study the causal effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the productivity of German …. This approach allows for an endogenous dynamic productivity process and corrects for simultaneous changes in input use or … productivity after a firm is regulated by the EU ETS. After estimating the firm specific productivity, I employ a difference …

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The impacts of the EU ETS on efficiency : an empirical analyses for German manufacturing firms

Löschel, Andreas; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes; Managi, Shunsuke - 2016

We investigate the effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the economic performance of manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and nearest neighbor matching. As a measure of economic...

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Drivers of energy efficiency in German manufacturing : a firm-level stochastic frontier analysis

Lutz, Benjamin Johannes; Massier, Philipp; Sommerfeld, … - 2017

Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...

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