This paper develops analytical models to estimate the welfare effects of higher Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards on new passenger vehicles. The analysis incorporates a broad range of fuel-and-driving-related externalities, fuel taxes, different assumptions concerning consumers'...

The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic...

The object of the present paper is to analyze the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental inputs/outputs. In the European agricultural policy, expectations for attaining sustainable and competitive agriculture lie to a great extent on the cooperative sector’s ability...

The objective of this paper is to construct a framework for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level. Based on a literature review, partially conflicting economic-environmental trade-off paradigms are structured and five necessary conditions for...

Replaced with revised version of paper 09/23/11.

This research report focuses on the impact of environmental management systems(EMS) on the economic performance of business enterprises with respect to the threeresearch variables, namely water, energy and raw materials. A systematic samplingtechnique with a random start and the K-Value sampling...

Every stage of the apparel production process has the potential to impact theenvironment. Using R. E. Freeman’s 1984 stakeholder theory as a framework thiswork seeks to a) identify current stakeholder groups’ expectations for environmentalperformance on key environmental issues within the...

Dilia Lopez-Gydosh

Previous empirical work suggests that poor firm environmental performance is negativelyassociated with firm financial performance. A common measure of firm environmentalperformance is emissions of toxic chemicals, typically taken from the EPA’s ToxicRelease Inventory (TRI). However, TRI...

Private equity firms have recently become a target for both social and environmental activists,who see financial engineering and cost cutting in companies purchased by these firms asdetrimental to the companies and society as a whole. However, the private equity space holds atremendous amount of...