Revisiting the Porter hypothesis:An empirical analysis of Green innovation for the Netherlands

Almost all empirical research that has attempted to assess the validity of the Porter hypothesis (PH) has started from reduced-form models, for example, single-equation models for estimating the contribution of environmental regulation to productivity. This paper follows a structural approach that allows testing what is known in the literature as the 'weak' and the 'strong' version of the PH. Our 'Green Innovation' model includes three types of eco-investments to explain differences in the incidence of two types of eco-innovation, which are allowed to affect labor productivity. We allow for co... Mehr ...

Verfasser: van Leeuwen, G.
Mohnen, P.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Reihe/Periodikum: van Leeuwen , G & Mohnen , P 2017 , ' Revisiting the Porter hypothesis : An empirical analysis of Green innovation for the Netherlands ' , Economics of Innovation and New Technology , vol. 26 , no. 1-2 , pp. 63-77 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2016.1202521
Schlagwörter: atira/keywords/jel_classifications/o32 / o32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D / complementarity / environmental regulation / Green innovation / Porter hypothesis / productivity / ENVIRONMENTAL-POLICY / TECHNICAL CHANGE
Sprache: Englisch
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Almost all empirical research that has attempted to assess the validity of the Porter hypothesis (PH) has started from reduced-form models, for example, single-equation models for estimating the contribution of environmental regulation to productivity. This paper follows a structural approach that allows testing what is known in the literature as the 'weak' and the 'strong' version of the PH. Our 'Green Innovation' model includes three types of eco-investments to explain differences in the incidence of two types of eco-innovation, which are allowed to affect labor productivity. We allow for complementarity between the two types of eco-innovations. Using a comprehensive panel of Dutch manufacturing firm-level data we estimate the relative importance of environmental regulations on eco-investment and eco-innovations. The results of our analysis show a strong corroboration of the weak and a nuanced corroboration of the strong version of the PH.