, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a …

Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental … regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …

This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire … U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 … emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined industries, heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity across …

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental … total factor productivity, both levels and growth rates, and both annual measures and averages over the period. We find a … strong connection between regulation and productivity when regulation is measured by compliance costs. More regulated plants …

exists an evident heterogeneous effect across industries with different pollution intensities. Stricter environmental …

China's extremely high levels of urban air, water and greenhouse gas emissions levels pose local and global … environmental challenges. China's urban leaders have substantial influence and discretion over the evolution of economic activity … pollution issues. Based on a principal-agent framework, we present evidence consistent with the hypothesis that both the central …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …, the regulation has focused on reducing one dimension of water pollution called chemical oxygen demand (COD). Thus, local …

We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity estimates for China's manufacturing … sector that spans her entry into WTO. We find that productivity growth is among the highest compared to other countries. For … our preferred estimate, the weighted average annual productivity growth for incumbents is 2.7% for a gross output …

the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …