Only recently have the aspects of pollution and environmental protection entered into the empirical literature about international firm activities. The present paper is the first firmlevel study on the link between foreign ownership and environmental protection in Germany. We find that, ceteris...

Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung werden die Trennlinien zwischen Recht und Nicht-Recht, zwischen legitim/illegitim, öffentlich und privat zunehmend porös. Während sich auf der einen Seite die Regelungslücken im formalen staatlichen Recht mehren, emergieren gleichzeitig zahlreiche private...

Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The...