The impacts of environmental regulations on competitiveness
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, the authors review the empirical literature on the impacts of environmental regulations on firms' competitiveness as measured by trade, industry location, employment, productivity, and in-state productivity.Abstract:
This article reviews the empirical literature on the impacts of environmental regulations on firms’ competitiveness as measured by trade, industry location, employment, productivity, and in...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Environmental regulations, enterprise productivity, and green technological progress: large-scale data analysis in China
TL;DR: It is found that environmental regulations tend to increase the environment-friendly and non-environment-friendly research and development (R&D) inputs of the enterprises and can help enterprises be competitive in global markets.
Looking for green jobs: the impact of green growth on employment
Alex Bowen,Karlygash Kuralbayeva +1 more
Journal ArticleDOI
Rising labour cost, environmental regulation and manufacturing restructuring of Chinese cities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors decompose the growth of the urban manufacturing industry into composition effect and competition effect to measure the rationalization and advancement of the manufacturing structure, and derive an equilibrium model to examine the effects of labour costs and environmental regulations.
Journal ArticleDOI
Examining the Relationship Between Product Market Competition and Chinese Firms Performance: The Mediating Impact of Capital Structure and Moderating Influence of Firm Size
TL;DR: In this article , the mediating effect of capital structure and the moderating impact of firm size in achieving better performance of Chinese companies was explored and the results showed that moderating large businesses affects the nexus between product market competition and firm performance.
Journal ArticleDOI
Do energy prices affect employment? Decomposed international evidence
Erik Hille,Patrick Möbius +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the energy price-employment nexus and contributed to the literature by showing that it is important to decompose the regulatory effect into demand, cost, and factor shift effects.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity
TL;DR: This paper developed a dynamic industry model with heterogeneous firms to analyze the intra-industry effects of international trade and showed how the exposure to trade will induce only the more productive firms to enter the export market (while some less productive firms continue to produce only for the domestic market).
Journal ArticleDOI
Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress, and that instead of simply adding to cost, properly crafted environmental standards can trigger innovation offsets, allowing companies to improve their resource productivity.
ReportDOI
A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction
Philippe Aghion,Peter Howitt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of endogenous growth is developed in which vertical innovations, generated by a competitive research sector, constitute the underlying source of growth and equilibrium is determined by a forward-looking difference equation, according to which the amount of research in any period depends upon the expected amount of the research next period.
Journal ArticleDOI
Economic Growth and the Environment
Gene M. Grossman,Alan B. Krueger +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between per capita income and various environmental indicators and found no evidence that environmental quality deteriorates steadily with economic growth, rather, for most indicators, economic growth brings an initial phase of deterioration followed by a subsequent phase of improvement.
Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate
TL;DR: The Dutch flower industry has responded to its environmental problems by developing a closed-loop system to reduce the risk of infestation, reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides, and improving product quality as mentioned in this paper.