Klimawandel, Klimaschutz und Klimapolitik müssen als Treiber eines Strukturwandels angesehen werden. Speziell der politisch durchgesetzte Klimaschutz in Form einer Verminderung von Treibhausgasemissionen hat Veränderungen der Wirtschaftsstruktur in Deutschland zur Folge. Diese Veränderungen...

This paper provides a primer on the economics of environmental innovation. Our intention is not to write a pure review paper, but to also provide an up-to-date textbook treatment on the issue. Thus, we start by defining the marginal costs of both emissions and of emissions abatement. We then...

Previous aggregate studies ignore additional environmental improvements caused by intra industry reallocations to high productivity/ low pollution firms. They also fail to consider potential differences in abatement efforts by exporting status. Our estimation based on UK firm level data from...

We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and energy expenditures. For this purpose, we follow a production function approach where we account for these investment and expenditure categories as inputs. Based on a panel...