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manufacturing sectors of European countries between 1997 and 2009. By and large, the literature has analyzed the impact of … indicators for the "strong" PH. This approach allows us to account for potential opportunity costs of induced innovations. As a …
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This paper investigates the effect of environmental innovations on firm profitability with respect to differences between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015, results show that, in general, SME benefit more from...
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Although gasoline taxes are widely used (nearly) efficient CO2 emission controls, additional fuel-efficiency regulation is applied e.g. in the USA and in Europe. In a simple analytical model, we specify the welfare implications of (i) gasoline taxes, (ii) of 'gas-guzzler taxes' (iii) of...
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This paper uses a political-economy framework to analyze what consequences the exogenous introduction of a quantitative restriction on total emissions in a small open economy has on the stringency of domestic trade policy. The question is whether and to what extent the government, if it takes...
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The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
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are informational costs with regard to abatement options and costs, relatively small emitters and emitters with relatively … complex technology will face a threshold for evaluating abatement options and costs. We compare the EU ETS to the US SO2 … services (i.e. assistance in permit trading), play a crucial role to reduce transactions costs. Given high complexity of …
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Environmental regulations raise production costs at regulated firms, though in most cases the costs are only a small … fraction of a firm's total costs. Productivity tends to fall, and firms may shift new investment and production to locations … much larger than the costs of compliance. …
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; manufacturing ; Germany …
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This paper estimates the social costs of job loss due to environmental regulation. Per job lost, potential social costs … of job loss are high, plausibly over $100,000 in present value costs (2012 dollars) per permanently lost job. However …, these social costs will typically be far less than the earnings associated with lost jobs, because labor markets and workers …
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Researchers have long been interested in whether environmental regulations discourage investment, reduce labour demand, or alter patterns of international trade. But estimating those consequences of regulations requires devising a means of measuring their stringency empirically. While creating...
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