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-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 regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …
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-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 regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190159
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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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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Nowadays, due to the huge deterioration of the environment, not only the human beings, but also the day-to-day business environment suffers adversely. Hence, “Go Green” behavior becomes a globally accepted direction of every individual and business. “Go Green” is an earth-friendly living...
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I study the causal effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the productivity of German manufacturing firms. Using administrative firm-level data, I estimate robust production functions for narrowly defined industries. This approach allows for an endogenous dynamic...
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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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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...
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This paper analyzes the effects of a ban on smoking in public places upon firms and consumers. It presents a theoretical model and tests its predictions using unique data from before and after the introduction of smoking bans in the UK. Cigarette smoke is a public bad, and smokers and...
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