We investigate how a firm's export activity and country idiosyncrasies determine the firm's adoption of environmental innovation (EI) as well as the firm's decision to extend its number of EI typologies. To this end, we append two waves of the Community Innovation Survey, differentiate our...

The paper represents a new reading of the traditional Ricardian theory of comparative advantages to tackle current challenges of environmental and climate policy. In the style of David Ricardo, it demonstrates that international trade is a positive-sum game in a twogoods, two-countries world...

Industries that occupy upstream positions in global value chains (GVCs) - being positioned closer to the raw product - produce proportionately more CO2-intensive. However, firms are heterogeneous, even in narrowly defined industries. In this paper, I empirically investigate whether the...

The paper represents a new reading of the traditional Ricardian theory of comparative advantages to tackle current challenges of environmental and climate policy. In the style of David Ricardo, it demonstrates that international trade is a positive-sum game in a twogoods, two-countries world...

Two new developments in the global landscape - growing concerns towards global warming and the rising prices of commodities – require countries to craft new growth strategies. These recent developments in the global market offer fresh industrial opportunities as well as difficulties for...

We investigate how a firm's export activity and country idiosyncrasies determine the firm's adoption of environmental innovation (EI) as well as the firm's decision to extend its number of EI typologies. To this end, we append two waves of the Community Innovation Survey, differentiate our...