Selon des croyances largement répandues, la protection de l'environnement est associée à une hausse des coûts imposés aux entreprises par le gouvernement. Au cours de la dernière décennie, ce point de vue a été contesté par un grand nombre d'analystes. Ces derniers ont cerné de...

Jaffe and Palmer (1997) present three distinct variants of the so-called Porter Hypothesis. The weak version of the hypothesis posits that environmental regulation will stimulate certain kinds of environmental innovations. The narrow version of the hypothesis asserts that flexible environmental...

The conventional wisdom about environmental protection is that it comes at an additional cost on firms imposed by the government, which may erode their global competitiveness. However, during the last decade, this paradigm has been challenged by a number of analysts. In particular, Porter...