Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2013 - This version, January 2013
-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms competitiveness. Since … innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating … technology on non-green innovative activities for a sample of firms in Germany. We find indeed some evidence for a crowding out …