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innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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Environmental policy instruments have an impact on the incentives to invest in environmental R&D and this link should deserve careful consideration when introducing new instruments. Some authors argue that environmental taxes and tradable permits have rather comparable impacts on environmental...
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the interaction between environmental taxes and innovation externalities in a dynamic economy and prove policy equivalence … directly linked to the source of technological innovation. Arguments for early action in LbD models carry over to a second …
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This paper explores some costs associated with environmental regulation. We focus on regulation pertaining to ground-level ozone (O3) and its effects on two manufacturing industries — industrial organic chemicals (SIC 2865-9) and miscellaneous plastic products (SIC 308). Both are major...
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Since the seminal works of Schumpeter (1937) and Arrow (1962), economists have recognised that the innovation process … govern the appropriability of economic returns from innovation In this paper we focus on one particular aspect of the … relationship between market structure and innovation, that is the effect of regulation on the incentives to innovate of a regulated …
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The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a … multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey …. The objective is to analyse the general structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the …
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This paper explores the trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality along two paradigms of endogenous growth theory: variety expansion (HIP) and quality improvements (VIP). We compare the policies that match the decentralised economies' paths with the optimal "strong sustainable"...
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In this paper we build an endogenous growth model where human capital and ideas are complements in the long-run equilibrium and technological progress takes the form of a continuous increase in the number of horizontally differentiated varieties of intermediate inputs. One peculiarity of the...
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Using a vertical differentiation model of endogenous growth with stochastic R&D activity, we characterise the optimal patent lifetime a government would set in order to maximise economic growth. We show that a finite patent lifetime does exist and is unique provided that the expected rate of...
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on their products. We then introduce environmental innovation into the model. The third part analyses the impact of the … ecolabel on competition (firms' profits) and the environment (green innovation and market shares). The conclusion contrasts the … and might even be willing to adopt environmentally effective criteria if the green demand is important and innovation …
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