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Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? A comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

This 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 terms of taxes, regulations, standards, subsidies and demand stimulation) for their firm operation and link data on the adoption and development of new energy technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance, suggesting that either policy impacts on firms' cost are negligible in the period of study (2012 to 2014) or likely negative impacts are balanced by the adoption of new technology.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: KOF Working Papers ; No. 418

Classification
Wirtschaft
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Energy: Government Policy
Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
Empirical Studies of Trade
Trade and Environment
Subject
Energy policy
technology adoption
competitiveness
export
matching approach

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Arvanitis, Spyros
Gottschalk, Sandra
Peneder, Michael
Rammer, Christian
Stucki, Tobias
Wörter, Martin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
(where)
Zurich
(when)
2016

DOI
doi:10.3929/ethz-a-010749040
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Arvanitis, Spyros
  • Gottschalk, Sandra
  • Peneder, Michael
  • Rammer, Christian
  • Stucki, Tobias
  • Wörter, Martin
  • ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute

Time of origin

  • 2016

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