Under the dual pressures of carbon emissions reduction targets and high-quality economic
development, environmental rights trading was widely used to promote win-win situation …

We examine whether and how environmental protection tax (EPT) affects environmental
governance performance of firms. To address this problem, we first construct unique …

It is increasingly evident that the direction of technological change responds to economic
incentives. We review the literature on directed technical change in the context of …

The relevance of analyzing effects of environmental regulation on innovation cannot be
overemphasized. In this paper, we first develop a theoretical model to predict how command …

In this paper, we adopt a recent OECD framework and examine the role of external policy
tools and internal firm specific factors for stimulating three different types of eco-innovations …

This paper attempts to provide empirical evidence on issues concerning:(a) the effect of the
stringency of environmental regulations (as measured by pollution control expenditures) on …

This paper explores the relationship between environmentally related taxes and the
economic growth rate. The analysis also investigates whether this relationship differs …

The relatively new and still amorphous concept of 'green growth'can be understood as a call
for balancing longer-term investments in sustaining environmental wealth with nearer-term …

Abstract The Porter Hypothesis (PH) posits that well-designed environmental regulations
can stimulate innovation, which may lead to efficiency gains or even profit increase in …

Over the recent years, there has been evidence of a decline in energy intensity worldwide.
Most of this decline was industry or sector specific. The main aim of the quantitative analysis …