6 results on '"Rammer, Christian"'
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2. Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies: Firm-level evidence for the DACH region
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Arvanitis, Spyridon, Peneder, Michael, Rammer, Christian, Stucki, Tobias, and Wörter, Martin
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ENERGY POLICY ,Economics ,COMPANIES ,SCHWEIZ (MITTELEUROPA). SCHWEIZERISCHE EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT ,Q48 ,O25 ,ÖSTERREICH (MITTELEUROPA). REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH ,INNOVATION + MODERNIZATION ,COMPETITIVENESS ,ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES + REGENERATIVE ENERGIES (ENERGY TECHNOLOGY) ,UNTERNEHMEN ,ALTERNATIVE ENERGIEN + REGENERATIVE ENERGIEN (ENERGIETECHNIK) ,Environmental policy ,GERMANY (CENTRAL EUROPE). FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY ,Technology adoption ,ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY + ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY + NATURE CONSERVATION POLICY (POLITICS) ,ENERGIEPOLITIK ,DEUTSCHLAND (MITTELEUROPA). BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND ,Porter hypothesis ,INNOVATION + MODERNISIERUNG ,SWITZERLAND (CENTRAL EUROPE). SWISS CONFEDERATION ,Energy policy ,AUSTRIA (CENTRAL EUROPE). REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA ,Innovation ,WETTBEWERBSFÄHIGKEIT ,UMWELTPOLITIK + UMWELTSCHUTZPOLITIK + NATURSCHUTZPOLITIK (POLITIK) ,ddc:330 ,energy efficiency ,O33 ,technology adoption ,Q55 ,O13 ,innovation ,energy policy - Abstract
For a large sample of enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the “DACH“ region) we study the impact of various policy instruments, such as energy related taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards or negotiated agreements on the firm’s ecological and economic performance. To identify the causal linkages, we build a system of twelve equations, tracking first the impacts of policy on the adoption of green energy technologies for distinct areas. In a second set of equations, we estimate the perceived impacts of adoption on the firm’s (i) energy efficiency, (ii) carbon emissions and (iii) competitiveness. The results confirm a differentiated pattern of channels for policy to affect the firm’s energy efficiency and carbon emissions, while having a neutral impact on its competitiveness., KOF Working Papers, 420
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3. The adoption of green energy technologies: The role of policies in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
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Woerter, Martin, Stucki, Tobias, Arvanitis, Spyros, Rammer, Christian, and Peneder, Michael
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy ,SURVEYS ,CLEAN energy ,RENEWABLE energy sources - Abstract
We contribute to the existing research about policy-induced technology adoption in several ways. First, we suggest a new survey design to measure the energy-related policy environment. Second, we simultaneously estimate the policy effects for the adoption propensity and the adoption intensity simultaneously and, third, we compare the policy effects in the three countries, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Based on a representative sample of firms for all three countries we find that policies essentially promote the adoption of technologies and they are practically ineffective for the intensity, which poses a great challenge to future policy designs. Voluntary agreements or demand-related factors are among the most important drivers for the adoption propensity of green energy technologies. Given the current institutional framework in the surveyed countries, subsidies are more effective in Austria, taxes are more effective in Germany, and demand-related factors are relatively more effective in Switzerland. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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4. Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact. The role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull
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Horbach, Jens, Rammer, Christian, and Rennings, Klaus
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Environmental Impacts ,O33 ,Cost Savings ,330 Wirtschaft ,ddc:330 ,C25 ,Discrete Choice Models ,Q55 ,Environmental Innovation ,Demand Pull ,O38 ,Regulation ,Environmental Policy - Abstract
Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The main purpose of the paper is to test whether different types of eco-innovations (according to their environmental impacts) are driven by different factors. Besides a complex set of different supply, firm specific and demand factors, the literature on the determinants of environmental innovations accentuates the important role of regulation, cost savings and customer benefits. We find that current and expected government regulation is particularly important for pushing firms to reduce air (e.g. CO2, SO2 or NOx) as well as water or noise emissions, avoid hazardous substances and increase recyclability of products. Cost savings are an important motivation for reducing energy and material use, pointing to the role of energy and raw materials prices as well as taxation as drivers for eco-innovation. Customer requirements are another important source for eco-innovations, particularly with regard to products with improved environmental performance and process innovations that increase material efficiency, reduce energy consumption and waste and the use of dangerous substances. Firms confirm a high importance of expected future regulations for all environmental product innovations.
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5. Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact — The role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull
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Horbach, Jens, Rammer, Christian, and Rennings, Klaus
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis , *EMPIRICAL research , *CONSUMERS , *PERFORMANCE evaluation , *ECONOMIC efficiency , *HAZARDOUS substances - Abstract
Abstract: Empirical analyses of eco-innovation determinants have rarely been able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impact. The present paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey, conducted in 2009. The main purpose of this paper is to test whether different types of eco-innovation (according to their environmental impacts) are driven by different factors. Beside a complex set of different supply, firm-specific, and demand factors, the literature on determinants of eco-innovation accentuates the important role of regulation, cost savings and customer benefits. We find that current and expected government regulation is particularly important with regard to pushing firms to reduce air (e.g. CO2, SO2 or NOx) as well as water or noise emissions, avoid hazardous substances, and increase recyclability of products. Cost savings are an important motivation for reducing energy and material use, pointing to the role of energy and raw material prices as well as taxation as drivers for eco-innovation. Customer requirements are another important source of eco-innovations, particularly with regard to products with improved environmental performance and process innovations that increase material efficiency, and reduce energy consumption, waste and the use of dangerous substances. Firms confirm a high importance of expected future regulations for all environmental product innovations. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2012
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6. Development and utilization of energy-related technologies, economic performance and the role of policy instruments.
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Arvanitis, Spyros, Peneder, Michael, Rammer, Christian, Stucki, Tobias, and Woerter, Martin
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *LABOR productivity , *NEW product development , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *PRODUCT management - Abstract
The present study investigates the effects of energy-related technologies on economic performance at firm level. We distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation in the broad sense) and product innovation in energy-related fields. We take into consideration four energy-related policy instruments (and expected demand for energy-related new products and services). We investigate the possibility of indirect effects of policy on performance via adoption or innovation by interacting adoption and innovation variables with policy instrument dummies. We test our hypotheses not only for the pooled data but also separately for the three countries (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) that are taken into consideration in this study. We find a positive direct effect of investment expenditures for energy-related technologies on labour productivity – that measure intensity of adoption of energy-related technologies – and a positive indirect effect of energy taxes via investment in energy-related technologies. Further, we find positive direct and indirect effects of regulation , standards and voluntary agreements via the adoption of production-related technologies and for technologies for the generation of renewal energy sources . We find neither direct nor indirect effects of the sales of innovative energy-related products – that measure product innovation in energy-related products – on labour productivity. No differences among the three countries could be detected with respect to investment in energy-related technologies and sales of innovative energy-related products. The indirect effects of regulation and standards and voluntary agreements can be primarily traced back to German firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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