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Are Regional Systems Greening the Economy? the Role of Environmental Innovations and Agglomeration Forces
Antonioli, Davide; Borghesi, Simone; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
in Italy, an area rich of manufacturing districts. We analyse EIs drivers and effects on firms’ performances through a … two-step procedure. First, we look at the relevance of spatial levers, namely whether the agglomeration of EIs induces EIs … importance of spatial levers, the role of agglomeration turns out to be fairly local in nature: we find that spillovers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781886
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Inducing Low-Carbon Investment in the Electric Power Industry through a Price Floor for Emissions Trading
Brauneis, Alexander; Mestel, Roland; Palan, Stefan; … - Social- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Uncertainty about long-term climate policy is a major driving force in the evolution of the carbon market price. Since this price enters the investment decision process of regulated firms, this uncertainty increases the cost of capital for investors and might deter investments into new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598752
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Inducing Low-Carbon Investment in the Electric Power Industry through a Price Floor for Emissions Trading
Brauneis, Alexander; Loretz, Michael; Mestel, Roland; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Uncertainty about long-term climate policy is a major driving force in the evolution of the carbon market price. Since this price enters the investment decision process of regulated firms, this uncertainty increases the cost of capital for investors and might deter invest-ments into new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421248
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Emissions abatement R&D Dynamic Competition in Supply Schedules
Menezes, Flavio; Pereira, Jorge - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2015
This paper investigates the optimal environmental policy (the mix of emissions tax and R&D subsidy) when two firms, producing differentiated products, compete in the output market over time. Firms compete over supply schedules, which encompasses a continuum of market structures from Bertrand to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255388
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Greening Growth in Japan
Capozza, Ivana - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
A decade of sluggish economic growth, concluding with the sharpest recession since the Second World War, has underlined the need for Japan to develop a new growth model. Such a model should restore public finances and long-term growth while preserving environmental quality and ensuring a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867732
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System innovations and Transition Management in Austria: the case of wood-plastic composites and biopolymers
Weber, Matthias; Kubeczko, Klaus; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - In: EKONOMIAZ 75 (2010) 04, pp. 82-103
recent years Austria has also sought to use renewables resources as widely as possible in product manufacturing, though for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873368
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Innovaciones de sistema y gestión de la transición en Austria: el caso de los compuestos de madera y plástico y los biopolímeros
Weber, Matthias; Kubeczko, Klaus; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - In: EKONOMIAZ 75 (2010) 04, pp. 140-161
recent years Austria has also sought to use renewables resources as widely as possible in product manufacturing, though for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873385
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Climate-friendly technologies in the mobile air-conditioning sector: A patent citation analysis
Rave, Tilmann; Goetzke, Frank - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2011
The development of climate-friendly technologies and its diffusion across countries is of key importance to slow climate change. This paper considers technologies in the mobile air-conditioning (MAC) sector which is a major contributor of fluorinatedgreenhouse gas emissions. Using patents as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002325
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Environmental Regulations, Market Structure and Technological Progress in Renewable Energy Technology — A Panel Data Study on Wind Turbines
Rübbelke, Dirk; Weiss, Pia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We explicitly control for energy market liberalisation and take a potential interaction between liberalisation and policy instruments into account. We find a strong and highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002692
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Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact. The role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003576