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The cost of environmental policy under induced technical change

Smulders, Sjak; Di Maria, Corrado - 2012

. The second issue is whether environmental policy increases or decreases total investment and innovation. Even when … rate of innovation, which crowds out production and consumption, and thus makes environmental policy more costly. Finally … ; innovation policy ; induced technical change ; pollution-saving technical change ; pollution-using technical change ; crowding …

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Strategic environmental policy and the accumulation of knowledge

Ziesemer, Thomas (contributor); Michaelis, Peter (contributor) - 2008

from one period games in which so-called innovation offsets are unlikely to occur. The present paper considers a two …

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Policy diffusion, lobbying and the taxation of emissions

Michaelis, Peter (contributor); Ziesemer, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

Policy diffusion refers to the process by which a political innovation like the introduction of a novel emission tax …

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Environmental regulation and sustainable competitiveness : evaluating the role of firm-level green investments in the context of the Porter hypothesis

Stöver, Jana; Weche, John P. - 2015

We investigate the impact of environmental regulation on firm performance and investment behavior. Exploiting the case of a German water withdrawal regulation that is managed on the state level, we analyze firms’ reactions to an increase in the water tax using a regression- adjusted...

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Environmental regulation and sustainable competitiveness : evaluating the role of firm-level green investments in the context of the Porter hypothesis

Stöver, Jana; Weche, John P. - 2015

We investigate the impact of environmental regulation on firm performance and Investment behavior. Exploiting the case of a German water withdrawal regulation that is managed on the state level, we analyze firms' reactions to an increase in the water tax using a regression-adjusted...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392770

Firm surveys relating environmental policies, environmental performance and innovation : design challenges and insights from empirical application

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Antonioli, Davide; Ghisetti, Claudia - 2016

policies, innovation practices or performance which are relevant for environmental policy analysis and assessment. We …

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Vertical differentiation in a Cournot industry : the porter hypothesis and beyond

Lambertini, Luca; Tampieri, Alessandro - 2011

We modify the vertically differentiated duopoly model by André et al. (2009) replacing Bertrand with Cournot behaviour to show that firms may spontaneously adopt a green technology even in the complete absence of any form of regulation.

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When Competition Plays Clean : How Electricity Market Liberalization Facilitated State-level Climate Policies in the United States

Lee, Nathan - 2019

Why do some governments adopt policies to mitigate climate change while others do not? In this study, I illustrate the importance of industrial organization in shaping prospects for climate mitigation policy. Using a generalized difference-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that...

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Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation

Stavins, Robert N. - 2007

Vintage-differentiated regulation (VDR) is a common feature of many environmental and other regulatory policies, wherein standards for regulated units are fixed in terms of the units' respective dates of entry, with later entrants facing more stringent regulation. In the most common application,...

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The Effects of Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation

Stavins, Robert N. - 2005

Vintage-differentiated regulations (VDRs) are standards that are fixed with respect to the date of entry of regulated units, with later vintages facing more stringent standards. VDRs play prominent roles under major Federal, state, and local environmental laws. This paper synthesizes what is...

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