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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 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 Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis

Download or read book Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strategies for Improving Environmental Quality and Increasing Economic Growth

Download or read book Strategies for Improving Environmental Quality and Increasing Economic Growth written by American Council for Capital Formation. Center for Policy Research and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 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 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 Effects of Environmental Protection Regulation on Regional Economic Development

Download or read book Effects of Environmental Protection Regulation on Regional Economic Development written by University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Industrial Research and Extension Center and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U S Manufacturing

Download or read book The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U S Manufacturing written by Michael Greenstone and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate the effects of air quality regulations on manufacturing plants' total factor productivity (TFP) levels. We find that among surviving polluting plants, stricter air quality regulations are associated with a roughly 2.6 percent decline in TFP. The regulations governing ozone have particularly large negative effects on productivity, though effects are also evident among particulates and sulfur dioxide emitters. Carbon monoxide regulations, on the other hand, appear to increase measured TFP, especially among refineries. The application of corrections for the confounding of price increases and output declines and sample selection on survival produce a 4.8 percent estimated decline in TFP for polluting plants in regulated areas. This corresponds to an annual economic cost from the regulation of manufacturing plants of roughly $21 billion, which is about 8.8 percent of manufacturing sector profits in this period. Keywords: clean air act, costs of regulation, air pollution. JEL Classification: D2, L6, L5, Q5.

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 American Economic Review

Download or read book The American Economic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trade and Environment

Download or read book Trade and Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: