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adaptation commitments. Given the importance of CARPs for meeting climate change targets, encouraging firms to develop CARPs is …
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Green startups are a major driver of eco-innovation and as such a major contributor to climate change mitigation and green growth. However, they often lack sufficient funding from investors. Our study focuses on the factors that determine venture capital investors to invest in green startups. In...
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Relative prices determine competitiveness of different locations. In this paper, we focus on the role of regulatory differences between Germany and other EU countries which affect the shadow price of carbon emissions. We calibrate a Melitz-type model, extended by firms' emissions and abatement...
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Rising energy prices might lead to adjustments along the supply chain and make firms outsource energy-intensive processes. This could lead to carbon leakage. I provide empirical evidence whether energy price-induced offshoring occurs using firm-level data on energy use, imports, and material...
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While many digital technologies provide opportunities for creating business models with an impact on sustainability, some technologies, especially blockchain applications, are often criticized for harming the environment, e.g. due to high energy demand. In our study, we present a novel approach...
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regional adaptation. First, trade can be viewed as a kind of adaptation to climate change and variability, as trade can help to … rich enough to adapt optimally to climate change, the resulting allocation of adaptation measures is Pareto-efficient. In … this case funding of adaptation, which is an element of international climate policy, does not make sense from an economic …
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This paper analyses the interplay between international trade, regional adaptation and North-to-South transfers for … funding adaptation within the framework of a dynamic computable gen-eral equilibrium model, where impacts of climate change … climate change, as is to expected, funding of adaptation can make sense from an economic perspective. In particular the Hicks …
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This paper examines the determinants of the inclusion of European companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index. In doing so, the paper contributes to the micro-econometric literature analyzing the determinants and economic effects of...
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This paper quantifies the macroeconomic impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol based on a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of international trade and energy use. Employing project-based CDM supply data we assess the relative importance of transaction...
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This paper extends a standard Schumpeterian growth model to include an environmental dimension. Thereby, it explicitly links the pollution intensity of economic activity to technological progress. In a second step, it investigates the effect of pollution on economic growth under the assumption...
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