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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...
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Promotion of green technology under different environmental policies
Strandholm, John C. - In: Games 11 (2020) 3/32, pp. 1-23
In this paper, I develop a two-stage game of pollution abatement technology adoption in a Cournot oligopoly to investigate a firm's decision to adopt pollution abatement technology. In particular, I study the adoption incentives and welfare implications of popular environmental policies, namely...
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Cost-benefit analysis for green demonstrators : application to the container glass industry in France
Sadighi, Maryam; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Sanin, María … - 2024
Adopting disruptive technologies for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industrial sectors requires experimentation through demonstration (pilot) projects. However, from an economic perspective, the potential long-term benefits and the difficulties in designing relevant public policies are not...
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Environmental Regulation and Technological Innovation : Evidence from China
Mbanyele, William; Wang, Fengrong - 2021
We analyze the real effects of the environmental regulation on technological innovation using a sample of Chinese firms …’ innovation policy and use the difference in difference (DID) as an identification strategy in our analysis. We provide evidence … that environmental regulation substantially promotes innovation productivity. Our findings reveal that this impact is more …
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Eco-innovation and employment: a task-based analysis
Elliott, Robert J. R.; Kuai, Wenjing; Maddison, David; … - 2021
This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O …*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However …
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Environmental innovation and firm profitability : an analysis with respect to firm size
Axenbeck, Janna - 2019
between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
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Environmental Innovation and Firm Profitability – An Analysis with Respect to Firm Size
Axenbeck, Janna - 2019
between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863682
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Linking Reduced Deforestation and a Global Carbon Market: Impacts on Costs, Financial Flows, and Technological Innovation
Bosetti, Valentina; Lubowski, Ruben; Golub, Alexander; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...
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Endogenous abatement technology agreements under environmental regulation
Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 13 (2022) 2, pp. 1-30
pollution tax to maximize domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of three innovation agreements: cooperative …
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Plans for expanding nuclear power plants lack technological and economic foundations
Wimmers, Alexander J.; Böse, Fanny; Kemfert, Claudia; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 13 (2023) 10/11, pp. 91-100
In mid-April 2023, the final three nuclear power plants in Germany will be taken offline permanently. At the same time, the energy crisis resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine has fueled calls for the construction of new nuclear reactors in Germany. A similar debate is taking place in...
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