Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … regulated due to its historically large contribution to air and water pollution. Our paper contributes to the broader empirical … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

. Economic growth (growth of real GDP) results from growth in the quantity and productivity of polluting intermediates. Pollution …We study economic growth and pollution control in a model with endogenous rate and direction of technical change … can be controlled by reducing the pollution intensity of a given quantity through costly research (green innovation) and …