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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Environmental protection investment and enterprise innovation: evidence from Chinese listed companies
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the relationship between environmental protection investment and enterprise innovation by taking evidence from Chinese listed firms and found that corporate innovation activities are not negatively influenced by environmental investments in polluting industries.
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Research on the influence of environmental regulation on technological innovation efficiency of manufacturing industry in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the impact of environmental regulations on the technological innovation efficiency of China's manufacturing industry empirically and found that three kinds of environmental regulation tools have different influences on the manufacturing industry and have a certain time lag effect.
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The Effects of Environmental Regulations on the Manufacturing Industry’s Performance: A Comparison of Green and Non-Green Sectors in Korea
Seulgi Yoo,Almas Heshmati +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of strengthened environmental regulations on employment and labor productivity in the Korean manufacturing industry using panel data from 2004 to 2015 and found that the green sector is experiencing higher labor productivity and employment as compared to the non-green sector after the tightened environmental regulations.
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Adoption of SO2 emission control technologies - An application of survival analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the contributing factors affecting the investment decisions on flue-gas desulfurization (FGD), a capital-intensive emission control technology, using data on coal-fired electric power plants.
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Environmental Policy and Induced Technological Change: Evidence from Automobile Fuel Economy Regulations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether environmental or energy-efficiency regulations induce innovations in relevant technologies through focusing on the tightening of Japanese fuel economy regulations in the 1990s and the early 2000s.
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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
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of endogenous growth is developed in which vertical innovations, generated by a competitive research sector, constitute the underlying source of growth and equilibrium is determined by a forward-looking difference equation, according to which the amount of research in any period depends upon the expected amount of the research next period.
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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.