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Brown sunsets and green dawns in the industrial sector: Environmental innovations, firm behavior and the European emission trading
Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2012
We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...
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The Future Costs of Nuclear Power Using Multiple Expert Elicitations: Effects of RD&D and Elicitation Design
Anadon, Laura Diaz; Nemet, Gregory; Verdolini, Elena - 2013
Characterizing the anticipated performance of energy technologies to inform policy decisions increasingly relies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328664
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257108
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137189
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Future costs of key low-carbon energy technologies: Harmonization and aggregation of energy technology expert elicitation data
Baker, Erin; Bosetti, Valentina; Anadon, Laura Diaz; … - 2015
In this paper we standardize, compare, and aggregate results from thirteen surveys of technology experts, performed over a period of five years using a range of different methodologies, but all aiming at eliciting expert judgment on the future cost of five key energy technologies and how future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307282
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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services: Micro-evidence from Italy
Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007
This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance …-related effects (the core of performance indicators) are not significant. Mainstream hypotheses related to eventual negative impacts … performance do not seem to be present. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270950
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The relationship between environmental efficiency and manufacturing firm's growth
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008
of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance …-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appear: this may be a signal that both firm strategies and recent policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279452
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Uncertain R&D, Backstop Technology and GHGs Stabilization
Bosetti, Valentina; Tavoni, Massimo - 2007
This paper analyses optimal investments in innovation when dealing with a stringent climate target and with the uncertain effectiveness of R&D. The innovation needed to achieve the deep cut in emissions is modelled by a backstop carbon-free technology whose cost depends on R&D investments. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312294
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Environmental Research Joint Ventures and Time-Consistent Emission Tax
Ouchida, Yasunori; Goto, Daisaku - 2014
This paper presents an examination of the socially efficient formation of environmental R&D in Cournot duopoly in a setting where a regulator has no precommitment ability for an emission tax. The results reveal that if the environmental damage is slight, alternatively, given severe environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398406
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Facing the Experts: Survey Mode and Expert Elicitation
Baker, Erin; Bosetti, Valentina; Jenni, Karen E.; … - 2014
In this paper we compare the results of two different expert elicitation methods: in-person interviews and a self-administered web-based survey. Traditional expert elicitation has been done face to face, with an elicitor meeting with an expert for a few hours to several days, depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398413