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  1. Regulating transgenic soybean production in Argentina
    Author: Phélinas, Pascale; Schwartz, Sonia
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Centre d'etudes et de recherches sur le developpement international, Clermont-Ferrand

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    Series: Études et documents / Centre d'etudes et de recherches sur le developpement international ; 2017, no 21 (November 2017)
    Subjects: Transgenic soybean; Argentina; Glyphosate; Environmental regulation; Production quotas; Market power
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  2. Competitiveness and investments under emissions trading
    Author: Bremer, Leon; Sommer, Konstantin
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    We study the effects of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) on employment and profits as well as on the investment decisions of Dutch manufacturing firms. Motivated both by sizable differences between firms that are regulated in different phases... more

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    We study the effects of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) on employment and profits as well as on the investment decisions of Dutch manufacturing firms. Motivated both by sizable differences between firms that are regulated in different phases and by the gradual increase in regulatory stringency, we pay close attention to treatment effect heterogeneity between firms and over time. We use microdata from Statistics Netherlands to apply two difference-in-differences (DiD) estimators: (1) a matched twoway fixed effects regression and (2) a recently developed, more flexible DiD method, designed for staggered treatment and treatment effect heterogeneity. We find that firms that were first regulated in phase 1 and 2 experience temporary employment losses of between 7 to 9% early in the regulation, but we do not find conclusive evidence for changes in profits. Firms that were regulated the earliest reduced their investments throughout all phases.

     
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    Series: Array ; TI 2022, 061
    Subjects: Emissions trading; Environmental regulation; Staggered Differencein-Differences; Treatment heterogeneity; Manufacturing
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  3. A spatial equilibrium analysis of air pollution in China
    Author: Yamada, Eiji
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  JICA Research Institute, Tokyo

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    Series: JICA-RI working paper ; no. 211 (March 2020)
    Subjects: China; Air Pollution; Domestic migration; Spatial equilibrium model; Environmental regulation
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  4. Employment effects of environmental policies
    evidence from firm-level data
    Author: Mohommad, Adil
    Published: May 2021
    Publisher:  International Monetary Fund, [Washington, D.C.]

    The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of increasing the stringency of environmental policy across a broad set of policies on firms' labor demand, in a novel identification... more

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    The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of increasing the stringency of environmental policy across a broad set of policies on firms' labor demand, in a novel identification approach using Worldscope data from 31 countries on firm-level CO2 emissions. Drawing on evidence from as many as 5300 firms over 15 years and the OECD environmental policy stringency (EPS) index, it finds that high emission-intensity firms reduce labor demand upon impact as EPS is tightened, whereas low emission-intensity firms increase labor demand, indicating a reallocation of employment. Moreover, tightening EPS during economic contractions appears to have a positive effect on employment, other things equal. Quantifications exercises show modest positive net changes in employment for market-based policies, and modest negative net changes for non-market policies (mainly emission quantity regulations) and for the combined aggregate EPS. Within market-based policies, the percent decline in employment in high-emission firms (correspondingly the increase in low-emission firms) for a unit change in a policy index is smallest (largest) for trading schemes ('green' certificates, and 'white' certificates)-although stringency is not comparable across indices. Finally, the employment effects of EPS are not persistent

     
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  5. Catching up and falling behind
    cross-country evidence on the impact of the EU ETS on firm productivity
    Author: Themann, Michael; Koch, Nicolas
    Published: April 2021
    Publisher:  RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen, Germany

    This paper assesses the potential impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on firm productivity. We estimate a stylized version of the neo-Schumpeterian model, which incorporates innovation and productivity catch-up as two... more

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    This paper assesses the potential impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on firm productivity. We estimate a stylized version of the neo-Schumpeterian model, which incorporates innovation and productivity catch-up as two potential sources of firm’s productivity growth, while at the same time accounting for persistent productivity dispersion within industries. This dynamic model allows us to differentiate the potential effects of the EU ETS on total factor productivity (TFP) depending on the level of firms’ technological advancement. The identification approach is based on a difference-in-difference approach exploiting the incomplete participation requirements of the EU ETS and the rich panel structure of firm-level data for eight EU countries from 2002 to 2012. We find evidence that the policy effects on TFP are highly heterogeneous and depend on the distance to the technological frontier, measured as the highest TFP in each year-industry. Productivity effects are positive for firms that are close to the frontier, but they turn negative for firms operating far behind the frontier. In dieser Studie untersuchen wir die möglichen Auswirkungen des Emissionshandelssystems der Europäischen Union (EU ETS) auf das Produktivitätswachstum der regulierten Firmen. Auf Basis von Firmen-Paneldaten für 8 EU-Länder für den Zeitraum von 2002-2012 und unter Verwendung eines Differenz-in-Differenzen-Ansatzes wird der Effekt dieser Politikmaßnahme geschätzt. Wir verwenden eine stilisierte Version des neo-schumpeterianischen Modells, welches Innovation und den technologischen Aufholprozess als zwei potenzielle Quellen für Produktivitätswachstum beinhaltet und die Produktivitätsstreuung innerhalb der Wirtschaftsbranchen berücksichtigt. Ein zentrales und robustes Ergebnis dieser Analyse sind die heterogenen Auswirkungen des ETS: Das System hat positive Effekte für die effizientesten Unternehmen, aber negative Effekte für Unternehmen, die weit von der Effizienzgrenze entfernt sind. Dieses Ergebnis stützt beide Paradigmen, die in Bezug auf die Auswirkungen von Umweltregulierung vorherrschen: die Porter-Hypothese, nach der Umweltregulierung bei Firmen zu Effizienzgewinnen führt, wie dies beim ETS für die effizientesten Firmen der Fall zu sein scheint, und die konträre konventionelle Sichtweise, nach der Umweltregulierung zu Effizienzverlusten führen kann.

     
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    Series: Ruhr economic papers ; #904
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; EU ETS; productivity; competitiveness
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  6. Agglomeration, pollution, and migration
    a substantial link, and policy design
    Author: Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Chengze Simon
    Published: December 2022
    Publisher:  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Center for Development Research, Bonn

    We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the formation... more

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    We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the formation of policies aimed at striking a socially optimal balance between supporting efficient levels of urban agglomeration and mitigating urban pollution in the presence of endogenous rural-to-urban migration. We show that without government intervention, although rural-to-urban migration contributes to agglomeration economies, it does not improve social welfare because it also exacerbates environmental degradation. We also show that urban pollution problems cannot be resolved by means of environmental regulation alone: for example, an emissions tax aimed at curbing urban pollution can backfire as and when it increases the appeal of rural-to-urban migration. A policy of emissions tax in conjunction with a subsidy to rural individuals is an effective means of enhancing urban productivity while reducing urban pollution.

     
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    Series: ZEF-discussion papers on development policy ; no. 321
    Subjects: Rural-to-urban migration; Industrial emissions; Polluting urban agglomeration; Environmental regulation; Policy formation
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  7. The impact of environmental regulation on clean innovation
    are there crowding out effects?
    Author: Benatti, Nicola; Groiss, Martin; Kelly, Petra; López-García, Paloma
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    We examine the extent to which environmental regulation affects innovation and which policy types provide the strongest incentives to innovate. Using a local projection framework, we estimate the regulatory impact on patenting activity over a... more

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    We examine the extent to which environmental regulation affects innovation and which policy types provide the strongest incentives to innovate. Using a local projection framework, we estimate the regulatory impact on patenting activity over a five-year horizon. As a proxy for environmental policy exposure, we estimate firm-level greenhouse gas emissions using a machine learning algorithm. At the country-level, policy tightening is largely associated with no statistically significant change in environmental technology innovation. At the firm-level, however, environmental policy tightening leads to higher innovation activity in technologies mitigating climate change, while the effect on innovation in other technologies is muted. This suggests that environmental regulation does not lead to a crowding-out of non-clean innovations. The policy type matters, as increasing the stringency of technology support policies and non-market based policies leads to increases in clean technology patenting, while we do not find a statistically significant impact of market-based policies.

     
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    Series: Working paper series / European Central Bank ; no 2946
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; Emissions; Porter hypothesis; Innovation; Euro Area; new technology; environmental law; environmental policy; greenhouse gas; environmental economics; patent
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  8. Essays on the economics of the 1956 Clean Air Act
    Author: Fukushima, Nanna
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Stockholm University, Stockholm

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    Series: Dissertations in economics ; 2021, 1
    Subjects: Environmental economics; Air pollution; Clean Air Act 1956; Environmental regulation; Infant health; Firm heterogeneity; Firm behaviour; Regulation compliance; Economic history
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  9. Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification
    evidence from Chinese cities
    Author: Ding, Zhaoyingzi; Sun, Siqi; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Zhang, Weiwen
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Utrecht University, Human Geography and Planning, [Utrecht]

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    Series: Papers in evolutionary economic geography ; # 22, 26
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; Technology diversification; Green innovation; Relatedness; Complexity
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  10. Effective measures toward climate neutrality
    the role of taxation, innovation, and market structure
    Author: Cruz, Vanessa da
    Published: 2023

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    Subjects: Climate change; Green innovation; Environmental regulation; Energy
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  11. Would you like to supersize your car?
    the effect of environmental subsidies on emissions
    Author: Tsanko, Ilona
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany

    I study the impact of subsidies for Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) on carbon emissions. I show that subsidizing innovations without considering consumer behavior can harm the environment. I provide descriptive evidence on charging instances of PHEV... more

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    I study the impact of subsidies for Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) on carbon emissions. I show that subsidizing innovations without considering consumer behavior can harm the environment. I provide descriptive evidence on charging instances of PHEV and combine it with a structural model of demand for new passenger vehicles to evaluate the market outcomes had subsidies for PHEV not been in place. I show that PHEV subsidies were used by consumers to purchase larger and heavier vehicles and that consumers of PHEV seldom charge their vehicle. Taking into account the observed consumer behavior, I find that the elimination of subsidies for PHEV would have led to a yearly reduction of 167,139 tons of carbon emissions which are equivalent to the yearly carbon emissions 52,916 households emit due to energy consumption.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper / ZEW ; no. 23, 033 (08/2023)
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; Substitution; Carbon emissions; Automobiles; Demand estimation
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  12. To rebate or not to rebate
    fuel economy standards vs. feebates
    Author: Durrmeyer, Isis; Samano, Mario
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Toulouse School of Economics, [Toulouse]

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    Series: Working papers / Toulouse School of Economics ; no 16-732 (Revised May 2017)
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; automobile market; structural model; policy simulations
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  13. Environmental regulation and export product quality
    evidence from Chinese firms
    Author: Deng, Yuping; Wu, Yanrui; Xu, Helian
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics, [Crawley, WA]

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    Series: Discussion paper / The University of Western Australia, Economics ; 19, 14
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; Export product quality; Product switching; China
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  14. Environmental regulation and productivity growth in the euro area
    testing the Porter hypothesis
    Author: Benatti, Nicola; Groiss, Martin; Kelly, Petra; López-García, Paloma
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm-level. We exploit several data sources and the environmental policy stringency index, to evaluate the Porter hypothesis, according to... more

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    This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm-level. We exploit several data sources and the environmental policy stringency index, to evaluate the Porter hypothesis, according to which firms' productivity can benefit from more stringent environmental policies. By using panel local projections, we estimate the regulatory impact over a five-year horizon. The identification of causal impacts of regulatory changes is achieved by the estimation of firms' CO2 emissions via a machine learning algorithm. At country- and firm-level, policy tightening affects high-polluters' productivity negatively and stronger than their less-polluting peers. However, among high-polluting firms, large ones experience positive total factor productivity growth due to easier access to finance and greater innovativeness. Hence, we do not find support for the Porter hypothesis in general. However for technology support policies and firms with the required resources, policy tightening can enhance productivity.

     
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    Series: Working paper series / European Central Bank ; no 2820
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; Emissions; Porter hypothesis; Productivity; Euro Area
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  15. Internalizing externalities through public pressure
    transparency regulation for fracking, drilling activity and water quality
    Author: Bonetti, Pietro; Leuz, Christian; Michelon, Giovanna
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    The rise of shale gas and tight oil development has triggered a major debate about hydraulic fracturing (HF). In an effort to bring light to HF practices and their potential risks to water quality, many U.S. states have mandated disclosure for HF... more

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    The rise of shale gas and tight oil development has triggered a major debate about hydraulic fracturing (HF). In an effort to bring light to HF practices and their potential risks to water quality, many U.S. states have mandated disclosure for HF wells and the fluids used. We employ this setting to study whether targeting corporate activities that have dispersed externalities with transparency reduces their environmental impact. Examining salt concentrations that are considered signatures for HF impact, we find significant and lasting improvements in surface water quality between 9-14% after the mandates. Most of the improvement comes from the intensive margin. We document that operators pollute less per unit of production, cause fewer spills of HF fluids and wastewater and use fewer hazardous chemicals. Turning to how transparency regulation works, we show that it increases public pressure and enables social movements, which facilitates internalization.

     
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    Edition: This draft: April 2024
    Series: CFS working paper series ; no. 722
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; Fracking; Real effects; Disclosure; Water pollution; Sustainability; Corporate social responsibility; Externalities; Unconventional oil & gas development
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  16. Optimal monitoring of credit-based emissions trading under asymmetric information
    Author: Mackenzie, Ian A.; Ohndorf, Markus
    Published: [2011]
    Publisher:  CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Zürich

    Project-based emissions trading schemes, like the Clean Development Mechanism, are particularly prone to problems of asymmetric information between project parties and the regulator. In this paper, we extend the general framework on incomplete... more

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    Project-based emissions trading schemes, like the Clean Development Mechanism, are particularly prone to problems of asymmetric information between project parties and the regulator. In this paper, we extend the general framework on incomplete enforcement of policy instruments to reflect the particularities of credit-based mechanisms. The main focus of the analysis is to determine the regulator’s optimal spot-check frequency given plausible assumptions of incomplete enforcement under asymmetric information on reduction costs and heterogeneous verifiability of projects. We find that, depending on the actual abatement cost and penalty schemes, optimal monitoring for credit-based systems is often discontinuous and significantly differs from the one to be applied for cap-and-trade schemes or environmental taxes. We conclude that, in a real-world context, project admission should ultimately be based on the criterion of verifiability.

     
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    Series: Working paper / CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich ; 11, 152 (October 2011)
    Subjects: Umweltstandard; Rechtsdurchsetzung; Emissionshandel; Asymmetrische Information; Monopol; Theorie; Environmental regulation; Project-based emissions trading systems; Audits and compliance
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  17. International competition and environmental expenditures
    empirical evidence from Indonesian manufacturing plants
    Author: Kaiser, Kai; Schulze, Günther G.
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  HWWA, Hamburg

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  18. International Competition and Environmental Expenditures : Empirical Evidence from Indonesian Manufacturing Plants
    Author: Kaiser, Kai; Schulze, Günther G.
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA), Hamburg

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  19. Employment effects of environmental policies
    evidence from firm-level data
    Author: Mohommad, Adil
    Published: May 2021
    Publisher:  International Monetary Fund, [Washington, D.C.]

    The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of increasing the stringency of environmental policy across a broad set of policies on firms' labor demand, in a novel identification... more

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    The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of increasing the stringency of environmental policy across a broad set of policies on firms' labor demand, in a novel identification approach using Worldscope data from 31 countries on firm-level CO2 emissions. Drawing on evidence from as many as 5300 firms over 15 years and the OECD environmental policy stringency (EPS) index, it finds that high emission-intensity firms reduce labor demand upon impact as EPS is tightened, whereas low emission-intensity firms increase labor demand, indicating a reallocation of employment. Moreover, tightening EPS during economic contractions appears to have a positive effect on employment, other things equal. Quantifications exercises show modest positive net changes in employment for market-based policies, and modest negative net changes for non-market policies (mainly emission quantity regulations) and for the combined aggregate EPS. Within market-based policies, the percent decline in employment in high-emission firms (correspondingly the increase in low-emission firms) for a unit change in a policy index is smallest (largest) for trading schemes ('green' certificates, and 'white' certificates)-although stringency is not comparable across indices. Finally, the employment effects of EPS are not persistent

     
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  20. Economic and environmental impacts of a carbon adder in New York
    Author: Akɪn-Olçum, Gökçe; Böhringer, Christoph; Rutherford, Thomas F.; Schreiber, Andrew
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Department of Economics, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg

    New York is considering additional emission regulation on top of its obligations under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to achieve its State Energy Plan targets. The proposed measure is a so-called "carbon adder" on CO2 emissions from... more

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    New York is considering additional emission regulation on top of its obligations under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to achieve its State Energy Plan targets. The proposed measure is a so-called "carbon adder" on CO2 emissions from the power sector which is set as the difference between the targeted social cost of carbon and the prevailing RGGI price for CO2 emission allowances. We investigate the potential economic and environmental impacts from the imposition of a carbon adder on New York's power sector. While our analysis indicates the risk of excess cost through overlapping regulations, we find that the carbon adder gives the "right" price signal for New York's power generation to turn into a greener one. Market requirements for permit price floors in the RGGI market induces carbon permit retirements across RGGI states leading to small reductions in region- and country-wide emissions levels.

     
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    Series: Oldenburg discussion papers in economics ; V-424-19 (September 2019)
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; overlapping regulation; emission taxes; emissions trading
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  21. Environmental management systems
    does certification pay?
    Author: Frondel, Manuel; Krätschell, Karoline; Zwick, Lina
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  RWI, Essen

    The voluntary adoption of environmental management systems (EMS), frequently certified by third-party audits following international standards, has become a vital supplement to mandatory environmental policies based on regulation and legislation.... more

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    The voluntary adoption of environmental management systems (EMS), frequently certified by third-party audits following international standards, has become a vital supplement to mandatory environmental policies based on regulation and legislation. Although there is empirical evidence that both EMS adoption and certification can effectively improve firms’ environmental performance, the impact on their business performance is far from clear. Drawing upon an OECD survey including more than 4,000 manufacturing facilities, this paper fills this void by estimating the impact of both EMS adoption and certification on facilities’ business performance using statistical matching techniques. While our results indicate that the pure adoption of EMS without any certification does not enhance facilities’ business performance, the financial performance of certified facilities turns out to be significantly high. Die freiwillige Implementierung von Umweltmanagementsystemen, welche oftmals auch nach internationalen Standards zertifiziert werden, ist mittlerweile eine bedeutende Ergänzung zur gesetzlichen Umweltregulierung. Laut empirischer Evidenz verbessert sowohl die Implementierung als auch die Zertifizierung dieser Umweltmanagementsysteme die Umweltperformance von Unternehmen in effektiver Weise. Der Einfluss auf den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg von Betrieben ist jedoch unklar. Basierend auf einer OECD-Umfrage unter mehr als 4 000 Betrieben im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe wird in diesem Papier der Einfluss sowohl der Implementierung als auch der Zertifizierung von Umweltmanagementsystemen auf die finanzielle Entwicklung der Betriebe mit Hilfe von statistischen Matching-Methoden untersucht. Unsere Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die Zertifizierung von Umweltmanagementsystemen tatsächlich den Gewinn von Betrieben verbessert, während eine reine Implementierung keine Effekte hat.

     
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    Series: Ruhr economic papers ; 519
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; matching methods
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  22. Optimal profits under environmental regulation
    the benefits from emission intensity averaging
    Author: Hampf, Benjamin; Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Techn. Univ., Inst. für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Darmstadt

    In this paper we analyze the economic effects of implementing EPA's newly proposed regulations for carbon dioxide (CO2) on existing U.S. coal-fired power plants using nonparametric methods on a sample of 144 electricity generating units. Moreover, we... more

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    In this paper we analyze the economic effects of implementing EPA's newly proposed regulations for carbon dioxide (CO2) on existing U.S. coal-fired power plants using nonparametric methods on a sample of 144 electricity generating units. Moreover, we develop an approach for evaluating the economic gains from averaging emission intensities among the utilities' generating units, compared to implementing unit-specific performance standards. Our results show that the implementation of flexible standards leads to up to 2.7 billion dollars larger profits compared to the uniform standards. Moreover, we find that by adopting best practices, current profits can be maintained even if an intensity standard of 0.88 tons of CO2 per MWh is implemented. However, our results also indicate a trade-off between environmental and profit gains, since aggregate CO2 emissions are higher with emission intensity averaging than with uniform standards.

     
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    Series: Darmstadt discussion papers in economics ; 220
    Subjects: Environmental regulation; profit maximization; emission intensity averaging; nonparametric effciency analysis
    Scope: Online-Ressource ([1], 25 S.), graph. Darst.