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We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e. design and intensity, and their effects on innovation. The patent data is based on …
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In the longer run, effects on R&D and the implementation of advanced abatement technology may be at least as important as short-run cost effectiveness when we evaluate public environmental policy. In this paper, we show that the number of firms that adopt advanced abatement technology could be...
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Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
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innovation with the practices of the wider economy. Using a multi-sector endogenous growth model with in-house R&D and knowledge … 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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Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285618
are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm's material or energy efficiency in terms of material … voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation.We conclude that the Porter … hypothesis does not hold in general for its 'strong' version but has to be qualified by the type of environmental innovation. Our …
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environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …
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domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of three innovation agreements: cooperative research joint venture …
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analyzes these issues for two types of innovation. While price bounds increase static efficiency they reduce incentives to …
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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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