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Clean and Dirty International Technology Diffusion

Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - 2014

This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses...

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Intelligent manufacturing, green technological innovation and environmental pollution

Shen, Yang; Zhang, Xiuwu - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 8 (2023) 3, pp. 1-13

equipment, and improves pollution efficiency, which is essential for environmental protection. From the perspective of the … that intelligent manufacturing can significantly reduce the concentration of PM2.5 in the air and environmental pollution …. The marginal impact of intelligent manufacturing on environmental pollution is nonlinear, and the main trend is the M …

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Emission pricing and capital replacement : evidence from aircraft fleet renewal

Jong, Gerben de - 2022

This paper empirically studies how emission pricing affects capital replacement and adoption of embodied environmental technology. A pricing policy encourages firms to accelerate retirement of old capital assets and replace them with newer more efficient assets, but this may crowd out...

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Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure : Navigating Choices Regarding Regulation, Subsidy, and Competition in a Complex Regulatory Environment

Hofmeister, Brandon - 2014

This article considers how electricity utility regulators should treat infrastructure investments related to electric vehicles. It begins by analyzing investments using traditional utility regulatory policy norms. Next, the article analyzes whether utility regulators should broaden their...

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Self-Financing Environmental Mechanisms

Breitscheidel, Jörg; Gersbach, Hans - 2021

We explore the design of self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms to solve hold-up problems in environmental regulation …. Under Cournot competition, announcing the subsidy rate seems to be preferable to announcing the tax rate. Moreover, for … be designed as self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms …

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The Inter-temporal Dimension to Knowledge Spillovers : Any Non-environmental Reason to Support Clean Innovation?

Karydas, Christos - 2017

spillovers, it is shown, that accounting for the time it takes for an innovation to diffuse modifies this widely-accepted result …

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Public procurement and the private supply of green buildings

Simcoe, Timothy S.; Toffel, Michael W. - 2012

We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy...

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Do pilot and demonstration projects work?

Blackburn, Christopher J.; Flowers, Mallory E.; … - 2018

Pilot and demonstration (P&D) projects are commonly deployed to catalyze early adoption of technology, but are poorly understood in terms of mechanism and impact. We conceptually distinguish unique functions of pilots and demonstrations, then examine whether they accelerate green building...

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Unilateral emissions mitigation, spillovers, and global learning

Chatterji, Shurojit; Ghosal, Sayantan; Walsh, Sean; … - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2013

Whats the role of unilateral measures in global climate change mitigation in a post-Durban, post 2012 global policy regime? We argue that under conditions of preference heterogeneity, unilateral emissions mitigation at a subnational level may exist even when a nation is unwilling to commit to...

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Regulating environmental externalities through public firms : a differential game

Dragone, Davide; Lambertini, Luca; Palestini, Arsen - 2011

We investigate the possibility of using public firms to regulate polluting emissions in a Cournot oligopoly where production takes place at constant returns to scale and entails a negative environmental externality. We model the problem as a differential game and investigate (i) the Cournot-Nash...

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