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The impact of pollution abatement investments on technology: Porter hypothesis revisited

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  • Jean Pierre Huiban

    (INRA-ALISS)

  • Camilla Mastromarco

    (Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Economia, Università del Salento, Italy)

  • Antonio Musolesi

    (Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara, Italy)

  • Michel Simioni

    (Toulouse School of Economics, INRA-GREMAQ and IDEI, France)

Abstract

This paper revisits the Porter hypothesis by pursuing two new directions. First, we compare the results obtained with two complementary approaches: parametric stochastic frontier analysis and conditional nonparametric frontier analysis. They presents relative advantages and drawbacks. Secondly, we pay attention not only on the average pollution abatement effort effect but we also focus on its variability across rms and over time. We provide new results suggesting that the traditional view about the effect of environmental regulation on productivity and the Porter hypothesis may coexist. This evidence supports the idea that a well-designed environmental regulation affects positively the rm performances in some instances.

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  • Jean Pierre Huiban & Camilla Mastromarco & Antonio Musolesi & Michel Simioni, 2015. "The impact of pollution abatement investments on technology: Porter hypothesis revisited," SEEDS Working Papers 0815, SEEDS, Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies, revised Apr 2015.
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    Keywords

    Porter hypothesis; pollution abatement investment; stochastic frontier analysis; time-varying eciency; Vuong test; conditional nonparametric frontier analysis.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

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