To examine the effect of high quality imports on green innovation, this research employs a time-varying difference-in-differences (DID) technique. Our analysis suggests that high quality imports promote green innovation in China. Heterogeneity analysis results show a different impact of high...

The authors consider a symmetric model composed of two countries and a firm in each country. Firms produce the same good by means of a polluting technology which uses fossil energy. However, these firms can adopt clean technology which uses renewable energy, having lower costs. Interestingly,...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) may have a positive effect on the level of pollution in host countries, as described by the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH). However, this kind of effect may depend on the economic conditions in host countries. In this study, we conduct research on the FDI’s...

The implementation of environmental taxation is one of the most important issues of environmental policy in Europe. To approach this matter, the paper aims to analyse the determinants of environmental taxation revenue for European countries. Besides investigating the most explored determinants,...

Climate mitigation requires global action: it does not matter where on earth a tonne of carbon emissions is being saved. Reducing carbon emissions is often cheaper in less developed countries than in EU member states. Therefore, integrating them into the EU Emissions Trading System generates...

This study investigated the relationship between political risk and green innovation utilizing data from 128 countries worldwide from the period 1984-2020. First, we find that accompanying political risk reduction positively promotes green technology improvement, and this still holds after a...

This research investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on renewable energy innovation, based on a panel of 22 countries during the period 1985-2019. The results indicate that economic policy uncertainty exerts a positive effect on renewable energy innovation that lasts for at least...

This research mainly investigates the impact of digital transformation on corporate financialization and which type of digital technology influences such financialization by utilizing data of listed companies from 2010 to 2020. We further discuss the mediating effect of green technology...

The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking while addressing Paris Agreement commitments and UN Sustainable Development Goals. This should be achieved by creating signals for private investors through: (1) a...