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Environmental regulation and productivity growth: Main policy challenges

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  • R. De Santis
  • P. Esposito
  • C. Jona Lasinio

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In this paper, we investigate the environmental regulation-productivity nexus for 18 OECD countries over the years 1990–2015 and discuss its main policy challenges. Our findings support the hypothesis that environmental policies generate positive productivity returns through innovation as suggested by Porter and Van Der Linde (1995). We find that environmental policies have a productivity growth-promoting effect. Both market and non-market based policies exert a positive but differentiated impact both on labour and multifactor productivity growth. As for specific policies, green taxes display the largest effect on multifactor productivity although with potentially negative redistributive effects. We also find that environmental regulation exerts an indirect positive impact on productivity growth fostering capital accumulation especially in high ICT intensive countries.

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  • R. De Santis & P. Esposito & C. Jona Lasinio, 2021. "Environmental regulation and productivity growth: Main policy challenges," International Economics, CEPII research center, issue 165, pages 264-277.
    • Handle: RePEc:cii:cepiie:2021-q1-165-16
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    • 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
    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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