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environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant … with most of the literature. On the other front, we find no evidence in favor or against the “strong” PH, as productivity …
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Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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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 …
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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 …
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regulation to regulated firms and spillovers to other electricity generators in the same market. Ignoring spillovers … as climate change exacerbates water scarcity and renewable electricity generation capacity expands …
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This paper develops an analytical framework for studying the Baumol-Oates efficiency of traditional single instrument abatementpolicies vis-à-vis green defaults in the face of price inertia and deliberate defaultingby subpopulations. In this special case ofbehavioural heterogeneity, command and...
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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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This paper develops an analytical framework for studying the Baumol-Oates efficiency of traditional single instrument abatementpolicies vis-à-vis green defaults in the face of price inertia and deliberate defaultingby subpopulations. In this special case ofbehavioural heterogeneity, command and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010508359
The non-monetary costs consumers experience from regulations are challenging to quantify, and thus easily overlooked. Using quasi-experimental policy variation and high-frequency supermarket data, this paper identifies previously hidden time costs from policies that ban or tax the use of...
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For much of the industrialized world, pollution from manufacturing has been falling despite increased output. In this paper, we provide the first estimates of the extent to which environmental regulations have contributed to this “clean-up” of manufacturing by causing: (i) the adoption of...
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