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How Different Policy Instruments Affect the Creation of Green Energy Innovation: A Differentiated Perspective
(2016)KOF Working PapersBased on representative firm-level survey data for the three countries Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, we investigate the effects of regulation, energy taxes, voluntary agreements, and subsidies, on the creation of green product innovations. Our data set allows us to distinguish between the supply-side effects (cost effects) and the demand-side effects of policy measures, which improves our understanding of the frequently observed ...Working Paper -
Development and Utilization of Energy-related Technologies, Economic Performance and the Role of Policy Instruments
(2016)KOF Working PapersThe 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 ...Working Paper -
Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies: firm-level evidence for the DACH region
(2016)KOF Working PapersFor 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 ...Working Paper -
Does Energy Policy Hurt International Competitiveness of Firms? A Comparative Study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria
(2016)KOF Working PapersThis paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. We rely on firm manager assessments on the relevance of energy policy (in ...Working Paper -
The adoption of green energy technologies: The role of policies in an international comparison
(2016)KOF Working PapersWe 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 conduct an international comparison of the policy effects. Based on a representative sample of firms for Austria, ...Working Paper -
Intra-Firm Diffusion of Green Energy Technologies and the Choice of Policy Instruments
(2015)KOF Working PapersEnvironmental benefits only unfold if green (environmentally friendly) technologies are widely diffused and intensively deployed within a firm. We investigate how different types of policies - directly and in combination - affect the number of different green energy technologies adopted by a single firm (intra-firm diffusion). Using data from a dedicated survey on the diffusion of green energy technologies of 1200 Swiss firms and applying ...Working Paper -
Dividing the Pie: The Determinants of Labor’s Share of Income on the Firm Level
(2014)KOF Working PapersThis paper is the first to study the factors determining labor’s share of income on the level of the individual firm, employing an unusually informative panel data set. The empirical examination is concerned with Switzerland which stands out as one of the very few developed countries with a stable labor share. Broadly confirming results from previous cross-country and industry-level studies, we find that the main factor decreasing the ...Working Paper -
The Impact of Energy Prices on Green Innovation
(2013)KOF Working PapersBased on patent data and industry specific energy prices for 18 OECD countries over 30 years we investigate on an industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the share of green innovations in non-green innovations. More concretely, our main model ...Working Paper -
The Performance Effect of Environmental Innovations
(2013)KOF Working PapersWhile recent literature has focused on explaining the determinants of green innovations, it is not well understood how such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry-level panel data were exploited: these include 12 OECD countries, the whole manufacturing sector and a period of 30 years. The results show that green inventions are U-shape related to performance. ...Working Paper -
The Impact of Venture Capital on the Persistence of Innovation Activities of Swiss Start-ups
(2013)KOF Working PapersIn this study we investigate the impact of early stage venture capital on innovation activities of Swiss start-ups. This is done based on a cohort of start-ups that is representative of all firms founded in Switzerland in 1996/97 as recorded by a census of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office for this period. We analyze not only the impact of early stage venture capital on innovation performance 3 years after firm foundation but also 6 ...Working Paper