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Voluntary Agreements under Endogenous Legislative Threats

Glachant, Matthieu - 2003

The paper analyzes the welfare properties of voluntary agreements (VA) with polluters, when they are obtained under the legislative threat of an alternative stricter policy option. In the model, the threat is an abatement quota. Both the threat and its probability of implementation are...

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Cost heterogeneity and the potential savings from market-based policies

Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

Policy makers and analysts are often faced with situations where it is unclear whether market-based instruments hold real promise of reducing costs, relative to conventional uniform standards. We develop analytic expressions that can be employed with modest amounts of information to estimate the...

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Transitional politics: Emerging incentive-based instruments in environmental regulation

Aidt, Toke S.; Dutta, Jayasri - 2001

In the past 15 years, incentive-based environmental policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradeable pollution permits, have become an important supplement to tradition command-and-control instruments in Europe and the U.S. This paper proposes a positive theory of environmental...

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Determinanten ausländischer Direktinvestitionen: Fördern laxe Umweltstandards den Zufluss von Kapital?

Mölders, Sarah - 2011

Im Rahmen der Pollution Haven Hypothese wird davon ausgegangen, dass Länder mit strengen Umweltstandards die Produktion verschmutzungsintensiver Güter in Länder mit weniger strengen Umweltauflagen verlagern. Dies würde für den Standortwettbewerb zwischen Ländern um ausländische...

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Environmental policy and industrial competitiveness: The pollution haven hypothesis reconsidered

Bommer, Rolf - 1995

The Pollution-Haven Hypothesis suggests that tight environmental standards reduce domestic producers' competitiveness and give rise to their relocating to countries with more lenient standards. This paper questions that relocation is always caused by reduced competitiveness at home. By using a...

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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …

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Theoretische Grundlagen demokratischer Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik: Der Beitrag von William Baumol

Pies, Ingo - 2010

Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Arbeiten von William Baumol und rekonstruiert seine ökonomische Erklärung für die spektakulären Wachstumserfolge westlicher Marktwirtschaften.

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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

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The Influence of Environmental Policy on Innovative Behaviour: An Econometric Study

Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1999

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 structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the …

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Wahrheit und Moral in der Umweltpolitik

Pies, Ingo - 2020

Die umweltpolitische Debatte leidet unter einem verbreiteten Diskursversagen. Zugrunde liegt eine Moralkonfusion. Sie verstellt der demokratischen Öffentlichkeit den Blick auf die ordnungspolitische Option, das moralische Anliegen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung - inklusive Klimaschutz - durch...

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