Stringency of environmental regulations vs. global competitiveness: Empirical analysis

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...

The Stringency Of Environmental Regulations And Technological Change: A Specific Test Of The Porter Hypothesis

the stringency of environmental regulations and technological change: a specific test of the porter hypothesis

Technology Flexibility and Stringency for Greenhouse Gas Regulations

The Clean Air Act provides the primary regulatory framework for climate policy in the United States. Tradable performance standards (averaging) emerge as the likely tool to achieve flexibility in the regulation of existing stationary sources. This paper examines the relationship between flexibility and stringency. The metric to compare the stringency of policies is ambiguous. The relevant secti...

Eco-Efficiency Evaluation Considering Environmental Stringency

This paper proposes an extended data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for deriving eco-efficiency. In order to derive eco-efficiency, the proposed model utilizes the concepts of operational efficiency and environmental efficiency. Since DEA can separately measure operational efficiency and environmental efficiency, the treatment for constructing the unified indicator is required to ultimately e...