Dietmar Edler

Environmental Policy and Innovation: an International Comparison of Policy Frameworks and Innovation Effects

Lasting environmental quality and availability of natural resources within a sustainable development would appear to require fundamental changes in existing modes of production and lifestyles. Strategies for achieving sustainability goals can be divided into two categories: sufficiency strategies and efficiency strategies. The former are aimed at changing behaviour, while the latter emphasise the necessity of comprehensive technological change. Environmental innovation is meant to reduce consumption of resources, limit pollution of the environment and — taking note of a crisis in available resources — substitute environmental capital with produced capital.

Elements of Innovation-Friendly Policy Regimes - An International Comparative Study for the Paper Industry

Environmental innovation allows to achieve reductions of pressure on the environment at lower cost and thus facilitates a transition towards sustainability. The present paper addresses the question of how to design environmental regulation in order to create incentives for generating and adopting environmental innovation1.

The Leontief-Duchin-Szyld dynamic input-output model with reduction of idle capacity and modified decision function

Abstract The paper discusses modifications of the dynamic input-output model as formulated by Leontief, Duchin and Szyld. On the basis of theoretical arguments and empirical considerations a modification with respect to two properties of the model is proposed. Firstly, the reformulated model allows for the explicit retirement of idle capacity, a mechanism which is not included in the original model. Secondly, the decision function ruling the process of the implementation of capacity expansion investment is modified using the concept of capacity reserve. In ex post simulations for Germany it is demonstrated that the modified model is better in tracing the actual development of gross output and investment variables on the aggregate as well as on the sectoral level. It should be noted that the improved goodness of fit is at the expense of a complication of the model and a need for a kind of calibration process, if the model is implemented for different countries or different periods of time.

Muster mit Wert

Eindimensionale Erklarungsmuster konnen den komplexen und interdependenten Einflussen der Umweltpolitik auf Innovationen nicht gerecht werden. Notwendig ist vielmehr ein Analyseraster, das umweltokonomische, innovationsokonomische und politikanalytische Forschungsansatze vereint. Hierzu wird das Konzept des Politikmusters entwickelt und auf Fallstudien in verschiedenen Sektoren und Landern angewendet.

A Stylized Model for Calculating Avoidance Costs

It seems sensible to request that the collection of data should be guided by an underlying analytical framework. This has been the case for the System of National Accounts(SNA), the development of which was strongly influenced by conceptions of economic theory. The purpose of this paper is to present some reflections on an analytical framework, that may serve as a guideline for collecting environmental information.