Clean and productive? Empirical evidence from the German manufacturing industry

Research Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 442-451

  Böhringer, Christoph ^a,e   Moslener, Ulf ^b   Oberndorfer, Ulrich ^c   Ziegler, Andreas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b FRANKFURT SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^c Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^e CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental expenditures; Environmental investment; Environmental regulation

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENDITURES; ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENTS; ESTIMATION RESULTS; GERMAN MANUFACTURING; POLICY DEBATES; PRODUCTION GROWTH;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; INVESTMENTS; MANUFACTURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84855912581     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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