This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm …, according to which firms’ productivity can benefit from more stringent environmental policies. By using panel local projections … tightening affects high-polluters’ productivity negatively and stronger than their less-polluting peers. However, among high …

The study seeks to investigate the relationship between electricity consumption and economic development using an … controlling for the role of institutions, technology, emissions, and economic structure in the electricity consumption … test to ascertain the direction of causal relationship between electricity consumption and economic development. The study …

important enough to have a protracted aggregate impact. Electricity and information technology (IT) probably are the two most … David [In: Technology and Productivity: The Challenge for Economic Policy (1991) 315–347] and emphasize their similarities …. Our main findings are: 1. Productivity growth in the two GPT eras tended to be lower than it was in other periods, with …

and regulation and productivity measurement of the German electricity industry in particular. The methodological approach … and politico-economic background of the German and the US electricity industries. The following two chapters provide … empirical productivity analyses based on a growth accounting fiamework. A major share of the data that are utilized for this …

loop. In the still publicly owned electricity sector, however, competition in generation and sales is so far virtually non …

of productivity have been low in many domestically oriented sectors and consumer welfare has suffered under high prices …

markets (electricity, gas, oil), the telecommunications sector, maritime transport and financial markets. This Working Paper …