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Privatization in Colombia : A Plant Performance Analysis
Pombo, Carlos; Ramirez-Gomez, Manuel - 2009
This paper describes the privatization program carried out in the productive sector of the Colombian economy during the 1990s. It evaluates privatization within the policy context of general market deregulation and the promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure and...
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Effects of information-based regulation on financial outcomes : evidence from the European Union's public emission registry
Earnhart, Dietrich; Germeshausen, Robert; Graevenitz, … - 2022
Information-based policies play an important role in environmental protection efforts around the world. These policies use information provision and/or disclosure to shape behavior in order to meet the policy objective; for example, mandatory information disclosure requires firms to measure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202842
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The effect of energy prices and environmental policy stringency on manufacturing employment in OECD countries : sector- and firm-level evidence
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Nachtigall, Daniel; Stadler, … - 2020
This study empirically assesses the impact of energy prices and environmental policy stringency (EPS) on manufacturing employment in OECD countries over the period 2000- 2014. At the sector level, increases in energy prices and in EPS have a negative and statistically significant impact on total...
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The joint effects of energy prices and carbon taxes on environmental and economic performance : evidence from the French manufacturing sector
Dussaux, Damien - 2020
The paper estimates the effect of energy prices and carbon taxation on firms’ environmental and economic performance. The analysis uses data on 8 000 firms that are representative of the French manufacturing sector and observed during 2001-2016. This paper also measures the causal impact of...
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Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Firm Performance? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Zhou, Xiangyi; Li, Ruixue; An, Heng; Li, Jay Y. - 2023
Exploiting the Central Environmental Inspections (CEI) in China as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that public firms in polluting industries experience significant gain in both profitability and market valuation after the regulatory shock, relative to firms in nonpolluting industries. The...
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The impact of regulation-driven environmental innovation on innovation success and firm performance
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010
The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660559
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The Impact of Regulation-Driven Environmental Innovation on Innovation Success and Firm Performance
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010
The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190159
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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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Foreign investment regulation and firm productivity : granular evidence from Indonesia
Genthner, Robert; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2019 - Revised version June 2019
-level productivity. Controlling for an extensive set of fixed effects as well as potential political-economy drivers of regulation, we … experienced a substantial loss in productivity that was concentrated in the sectors most dependent on external finance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011222
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Foreign Investment Regulation and Firm Productivity : Granular Evidence From Indonesia
Genthner, Robert - 2019
-level productivity. Controlling for an extensive set of fixed effects as well as potential political-economy drivers of regulation, we … experienced a substantial loss in productivity that was concentrated in the sectors most dependent on external finance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869176