Intra-firm Diffusion of Green Energy Technologies and the Choice of Policy Instruments

Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin (2016). Intra-firm Diffusion of Green Energy Technologies and the Choice of Policy Instruments Journal of Cleaner Production, 131, pp. 545-560. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.144

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Environmental 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 well-identified econometric models, we found that energy taxes are a very effective policy instrument for the intra-firm diffusion of green energy technologies. Even more important, however, are non-political measures that show the largest effect among all tested instruments. Additional analyses show that (a) time-consistency in policy making is more important for energy tax regimes than for regulations and (b) no evidence for complementarities between the policy types could be identified.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	Business School > Institute for Sustainable Business Business School
Name:	Stucki, Tobias0000-0002-2400-0107 and Woerter, Martin
ISSN:	0959-6526
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Tobias Stucki
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2019 13:12
Last Modified:	05 Jun 2024 08:39
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.144
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.76
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/76