Productivity growth, environmental regulation and win–win opportunities: The case of chemical industry in Italy and Germany
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Data envelopment analysis; Environmental and technical efficiency; Porter’s hypothesis; Undesirable outputs; Productivity growth indexes;All these keywords.
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