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Decentralized Regulation, Environmental Efficiency and Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine green productivity growth in Sweden’s heavily regulated pulp and paper …-Luenberger productivity index which accounts for air and water pollutants as undesirable outputs. Some of our key findings are: (1) regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818731
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Decentralized Regulation, Environmental Efficiency and Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine green productivity growth in Sweden’s heavily regulated pulp and paper …-Luenberger productivity index which accounts for air and water pollutants as undesirable outputs. Some of our key findings are: (1) regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096129
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Enforcement of vintage differentiated regulations: The case of new source review
Bushnell, James B.; Wolfram, Catherine D. - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 64 (2012) 2, pp. 137-152
We analyze the effects of the New Source Review (NSR) environmental regulations on coal-fired electric power plants. Regulations that grew out of the Clean Air Act of 1970 required new electric generating plants to install costly pollution control equipment but exempted existing plants. Plants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011043105
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Measuring Environmental Regulatory Stringency
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
Researchers have long been interested in whether environmental regulations discourage investment, reduce labour demand, or alter patterns of international trade. But estimating those consequences of regulations requires devising a means of measuring their stringency empirically. While creating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272337
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The Implication of Incorporating Environmental Costs in Utility Rate Setting
Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
resources such as electricity and gas that are not captured by market prices. Washington State possesses diverse resources that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789245
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Averting Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence from New Source Review
Keohane, Nathaniel O.; Mansur, Erin T.; Voynov, Andrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
plants for NSR violations. We study how electricity companies respond to both the perceived threat of future action, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085352
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Regolamentazione diretta e indiretta in un modello multisettoriale
Pellizzari, Fausta - Centro di Ricerche in ANalisi EConomica e sviluppo … - 2003
The paper aims to examine the interaction between economic system and environmental system in an input-output model in order to define the regulation to limit the impact of productive processes on environment and to assure a sustainable development. The analysis points out that both direct and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612102
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Esternalità ed efficienza. Un’analisi multisettoriale
Pellizzari, Fausta - Centro di Ricerche in ANalisi EConomica e sviluppo … - 2003
The paper aims to analyse the interaction between economic system and environmental system through multi-sectoral models of production and price distribution and to examine in this theoretical context the effects of environmental regulations. Two devices are introduced in the matrix in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612120
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The political economy of environmental regulations and industry compensation
Stoschek, Barbara - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2007
This paper uses a political-economy framework to analyze what consequences the exogenous introduction of a quantitative restriction on total emissions in a small open economy has on the stringency of domestic trade policy. The question is whether and to what extent the government, if it takes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980760
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Productivity and environmental regulations - A long run analysis of the Swedish industry
Brännlund, Runar - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008
The aim with this study is to evaluate the potential effects on productivity development in the Swedish manufacturing … mechanisms that enhances efficiency and productivity that finally outweighs the initial cost increase. To test our hypothesis we … model were the total factor productivity is calculated in the first stage, and is then used in a second stage as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424026