Shadow prices, environmental stringency, and international competitiveness
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Shadow prices, environmental stringency, and international competitiveness
Empirical tests of the relationship between international competitiveness and the severity of environmental regulations are hampered by the lack of pollution abatement cost data for nonU.S. countries. The theory of the firm suggests that environmental stringency can be measured by the difference between a polluting input’s shadow price and its market price. We make a first attempt at quantifyin...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Economic Review
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0014-2921
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.02.002