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Book Environmental Regulation and the U S Economy

Download or read book Environmental Regulation and the U S Economy written by Barry Bosworth and published by Baltimore : Published for Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environmental Regulation and U S Economic Growth

Download or read book Environmental Regulation and U S Economic Growth written by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environmental Regulation

Download or read book Environmental Regulation written by John F. McEldowney and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an original introduction by the editors, this important collection of essays explores the main issues surrounding the regulation of the environment. The expert contributors illustrate that regulating the environment in the UK is conceptually complex, involves a diverse range of institutions, techniques and methodologies and crosses geographical and national boundaries. In the USA it is more formalised, juridical, adversarial and formally dependent upon legal rules. The articles highlight the fact that despite differences in the UK and the USA's regulatory styles, environmental regulation today has much in common with both traditions.

Book Environmental Regulation and Manufacturing Productivity at the Plant Level

Download or read book Environmental Regulation and Manufacturing Productivity at the Plant Level written by Wayne B. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental regulation for plants in three industries (paper, oil, and steel). We examine data from 1979 to 1985, considering, both labor and total factor productivity, both levels and growth rates, and both annual measures and averages over the period. We find a strong connection between regulation and productivity when regulation is measured by compliance costs. More regulated plants have significantly lower productivity levels and slower productivity growth rates than less regulated plants. The magnitude of the impacts are larger than expected: a $1 increase in compliance costs appears to reduce TFP by the equivalent of $3 to $4. Thus, commonly used methods of calculating the impact of regulation on productivity are substantially underestimated. Other measures of regulation (compliance status, enforcement activity, and emissions) show much less consistent results. Higher enforcement, lower compliance, and higher emissions are generally associated with lower productivity levels and slower productivity growth, but the coefficients are rarely significant.

Book Economic Costs and Consequences of Environmental Regulation

Download or read book Economic Costs and Consequences of Environmental Regulation written by Wayne B Gray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. How expensive is environmental regulation and how does it affect the economy? A proper understanding of the costs imposed by environmental regulation is important for policy-makers and others concerned with regulatory design. This book focuses on empirical studies of the impact of environmental regulation on the economy, exposing the reader to a variety of estimation methodologies and datasets that have been used in this area. Three basic sources provide information on the costs of environmental regulation: surveys; engineering studies; and econometric analysis. This text draws on all three in its investigation.

Book Environmental Regulations and Industrial Competitiveness

Download or read book Environmental Regulations and Industrial Competitiveness written by Ward Thomas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While polluting industries in the U.S. continue to emit billions of pounds of toxic chemicals into the air, land and water every year, many economists and policy makers argue that environmental regulations stifle economic growth and reduce the standard of living for the American people. This book takes a fresh look at this question through three case studies of highly regulated polluting industries in the Southern California region: metal finishing, wood furniture, and dry cleaning. The case studies are based on a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, including in-depth interviews with corporate managers and environmental regulators. The authors find that there is no universal pattern for predicting the effects of environmental regulations on industrial competitiveness, but that the outcomes depend on the structure of the industry being regulated, the design of the regulations, and the technologies that are available for compliance. The book is written in straight forward language that is accessible to the non-economist and will prove an essential resource for academics and students of all levels, and professionals and policy makers in the fields of environmental policy and regional economic development.

Book How Environmental Regulations Affect Productivity of U S and Mexican Primary Iron Steel and Aluminum Industries

Download or read book How Environmental Regulations Affect Productivity of U S and Mexican Primary Iron Steel and Aluminum Industries written by Satenik Hackenbruck and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many economists believe that the slowdown of the productivity growth rates in the U.S. economy in early 1970's was a consequence of the increased level of environmental regulations. The main reason presented in support of this argument is that increased environmental regulations impose an additional burden to the firms, thus increasing the costs of the production of conventional outputs and decreasing productivity growth rates. The opposing view, called Porter hypothesis, claims that environmental regulations may have a positive effect on the performance of domestic firms relative to their foreign competitors by stimulating domestic innovation. Given that the environmental standards are lower in Mexico than in the U.S. we expect to find relatively smaller effect of environmental regulations in Mexico. During the debates of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 1994, this difference in environmental regulations levels of the two countries was hypothesized to encourage the migration of U.S. dirty industries to Mexico, thus putting Mexican economy into disadvantage. There are many studies of the effect of environmental regulations on U.S. manufacturing performance, however there is little empirical work showing the effect of environmental regulations on productivity of Mexico and comparing the relative performance of industries of the two countries. In this study we compare the relative performance of U.S. and Mexican primary iron & steel and aluminum industries, RAMA 3411 and RAMA 3423 correspondingly (according to Mexican Economic Census 1975 industrial classification). We estimate primal and dual TFP growth rates based on translog restricted cost function using fixed-effects approach. We found positive effect of environmental regulations on dual TFP growth in all industries. The results support Porter's "win-win" hypothesis.

Book The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance

Download or read book The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance written by Rolf Färe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweden has a long history of ambitious environmental, energy and climate policy. Due to the large amount of data available it is possible to perform statistically sound analysis and assess long term changes in productivity, efficiency, and technological development. The data at hand together with Sweden’s ambitious energy and climate policy provides a unique opportunity to shed light on pertinent policy issues. The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance answers several key questions: What is the effect of the CO2 tax on environmental performance and profitability of firms? Does including emissions in productivity measurement of the industrial firm matter? Did the introduction of the EU ETS spur technological development in the Swedish industrial firm? What air pollutant is most inhibiting production when regulated? Being aware and learning from the Swedish case can be very relevant for countries that are in the process of shaping their climate policy. This book is of great importance to researchers and policy makers who are interested in environmental economics, industrial economics and climate change.

Book Jobs and the Environment

Download or read book Jobs and the Environment written by Eban S. Goodstein and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the employment effects of environmental regulation.

Book Regulatory Realities

Download or read book Regulatory Realities written by Andrew Gouldson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how enhanced industrial environmental regulation can lead to improved industrial environmental performance at reduced cost. It examines the implementation and impact of different approaches and compares mandatory and voluntary regulations in the UK and Europe.

Book Passions

Download or read book Passions written by James M. Gabler and published by Bacchus Press Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Thomas Jefferson at leisure, enjoying two of his passions--wine and travel. Twelve of the sixteen chapters cover Jefferson's five years in France where he served as our minister and traveled through France, England, Germany, Italy and Holland. "Passions" was selected by Robert M. Parker, Jr. as "1995 Wine Book of the Year," and was the winner of the 1995 "Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year" competition. It is a marvelous account of America's first wine connoisseur and gourmet.--Amazon.com.

Book Myths of Jobs Vs Resources

Download or read book Myths of Jobs Vs Resources written by Alan H. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: