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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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Carbon taxation and firm behaviour in emerging economies : evidence from South Africa

Gallé, Johannes; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Overbeck, … - 2025

This paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of how firms in emerging economies respond to carbon taxation, leveraging detailed administrative data from South Africa-a potential trailblazer for other developing countries with limited state capacity amid the growing global push for carbon...

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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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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...

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The Impact of Regulation-Driven Environmental Innovation on Innovation Success and Firm Performance

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010

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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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Ownership, Institutions and Productivity of European Electricity Firms

Florio, Massimo - 2016

, distribution and transmission of electricity and their ownership structure to empirically investigate the interaction of public … versus private ownership and the quality of institutions as determinants of productivity. While earlier literature has … lower productivity than under private ownership, here we focus on the role of institutions as an external governance …

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Electricity shortages and firm productivity : evidence from China's industrial firms

Fisher-Vanden, Karen - In: Journal of development economics 114 (2015), pp. 172-188

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