The impacts of environmental regulations on competitiveness
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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
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Plant Vintage, Technology, and Environmental Regulation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data on productivity and pollution abatement costs at individual pulp and paper mills to test whether the impact of environmental regulation on productivity differs by plant vintage and technology.
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The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the welfare costs of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act on the US Portland cement industry, accounting for these eects through a dynamic model of oligopoly in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes.
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On the green and innovative side of trade competitiveness? The impact of environmental policies and innovation on EU exports
TL;DR: In this article, the export competitiveness of the European Union has been affected by environmental regulation and innovation, and a theoretically based gravity model applied to the export dynamics of five aggregated manufacturing sectors classified by their technological or environmental content.
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The Effects of Environmental Regulations on Foreign Direct Investment
John A. List,Catherine Y. Co +1 more
TL;DR: This paper employed a conditional logit model to estimate the effects of state environmental regulations on foreign multinational corporations' new plant location decisions from 1986 to 1993, and found evidence that heterogeneous environmental policies across states do matter.
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Effects of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Plant Births: Evidence from a Propensity-Score-Matching Estimator
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of air quality regulation on economic activity were examined using a unique county-level data set for New York State from 1980 to 1990, using a seminonparametric method based on propensity score matching.