Search for dissertations about: "Porter hypothesis"
Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Porter hypothesis.
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6. Essays on externalities, regulation, institutions, and firm performance
Abstract : This thesis is devoted to the empirical analysis of how externalities—the nonexistence of private markets in some good or the absence of sufficient incentives to establish such markets— affect firm performance and growth. A minor part investigates a direct link between positive externalities, in the form of localized knowledge spillovers, and firm growth, by testing the so-called local export spillover hypothesis: Exporting firms in a region may reduce export entry costs for other local firms through export-related informal knowledge and information flows. READ MORE
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7. Energy efficiency and firm performance : evidence from Swedish industry
Abstract : This thesis sheds light on different aspects of the performance of Swedish industrial firms. To this end, the analysis defines and measures energy efficiency in an economic context, as well as investigating the implicit relationships between energy efficiency and other firm performance metrics – productivity and environmental performance. READ MORE
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8. Policy induced technological change : Productivity and innovation effects in biomass-using industry and energy generation
Abstract : The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the impact of public environmental policy on technological change in the biomass-using industry and energy generation. The thesis contains an introductory part followed by the empirical investigation which is divided into two self-contained articles. READ MORE
