the channels through which tighter environmental regulation affects productivity and innovation. Our findings suggest that …, market based environmental stringency measures seem to be the most suitable to stimulate innovation and productivity growth …, especially through the channels of innovation and productivity enhancement. …

Over the period 1995–2016, the Italian performance in terms of productivity was poor in historical terms and in … comparison with its main international partners. This issue goes beyond Italy, with declining productivity growth observed, from … diffuse slowing rates of measured productivity growth has also raised questions on whether GDP and output current compilation …

In this paper, we investigate the environmental regulation-productivity nexus for 14 OECD countries over the years 1990 … productivity returns through innovation as suggested by Porter and Van Der Linde (1995). We find that environmental policies have a … productivity growth-promoting effect. Both market and non-marked based policies exert a positive but differentiated impact on …

A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …