The impacts of environmental regulations on competitiveness
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In this article, the authors review the empirical literature on the impacts of environmental regulations on firms' competitiveness as measured by trade, industry location, employment, productivity, and in-state productivity.Abstract:
This article reviews the empirical literature on the impacts of environmental regulations on firms’ competitiveness as measured by trade, industry location, employment, productivity, and in...read more
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Firm’s Environmental Expenditure, R&D Intensity, and Profitability
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TL;DR: In this article, a negative relationship between the environmental expenditure and the firm's profitability was found, and the negative relationship was shown to be moderated by the company's R&D capability.
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Assessing domestic environmental impacts through LCA using data from the scientific literature
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview about the distribution of the environmental impacts arising from different domestic functions (i.e. storing and preparing food, washing dishes, watching television, reading, personal cleaning, washing, drying and ironing clothes, home cleaning, heating, cooling, lighting and mobility) typically performed within a common family home.
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The threshold effect of R&D investment on regional economic performance in China considering environmental regulation
TL;DR: The economic performance of the R&D investments of regional enterprises shows a downward trend with the strengthening of cost-focused ER while an inverted ‘U’-shaped relationship that first strengthens and then weakens is presented with the strengthen of investment- focused ER.
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The effects of environmental regulation on the stock market: the French experience
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of environmental regulation on the French stock market and found that the stock market is particularly sensitive to the environmental regulation embodied in the European Union Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) and less so to the regulation on water, soil and air (WSA).
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International collaborations in green energy technologies: What is the role of distance in environmental policy stringency?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the intensity of international collaborations in energy-related technologies across OECD and BRIICS countries by disentangling the role of the distance in environmental policy stringency between countries, controlling for the more traditional measures of technological, social, institutional and geographical distance.
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The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity
TL;DR: This paper developed a dynamic industry model with heterogeneous firms to analyze the intra-industry effects of international trade and showed how the exposure to trade will induce only the more productive firms to enter the export market (while some less productive firms continue to produce only for the domestic market).
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Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress, and that instead of simply adding to cost, properly crafted environmental standards can trigger innovation offsets, allowing companies to improve their resource productivity.
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A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction
Philippe Aghion,Peter Howitt +1 more
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Economic Growth and the Environment
Gene M. Grossman,Alan B. Krueger +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between per capita income and various environmental indicators and found no evidence that environmental quality deteriorates steadily with economic growth, rather, for most indicators, economic growth brings an initial phase of deterioration followed by a subsequent phase of improvement.
Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate
TL;DR: The Dutch flower industry has responded to its environmental problems by developing a closed-loop system to reduce the risk of infestation, reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides, and improving product quality as mentioned in this paper.