The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...

Erdgas ist auf dem Wärmemarkt einem intensiven Wettbewerb ausgesetzt, der auf der Ersatzmöglichkeit durch andere Energieträger mit gleicher Zweckerfüllung beruht. Wegen der Bedeutung wirtschaftlicher Kriterien für die Substitutionsentscheidung bilden sich Erdgaspreise - rechtliche und...

The German Environmental Liability Law (ELL) of 1991 has introduced far-reaching civil liability for environmental damages with the aim to increase firms? efforts to prevent accidents. Previous studies find poor evidence that this goal has actually been achieved. One and a half decades after the...