This book, Public Finance, Public Administration, Environmental Studies, is compiled from the accepted papers at the 6th International Congress on Current Debates in Social Sciences (CUDES). CUDES has started to organise by Westminster (United Kingdom) under the collaboration of Kocaeli...

Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmental-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential...

Recently Acemolgu, Aghion, Bursztyn and Hemous (AER 2012) formulated a model in which a high macroeconomic elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty production represents a crucial condition for green growth. Until now it has never been systematically estimated. Using a novel panel of...