IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hhb/sicgwp/2009_002.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Environmental policy and profitability. Evidence from Swedish industry

Author

Listed:
  • Brännlund, Runar

    (Umeå University)

  • Lundgren, Tommy

    (Umeå School of Business)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of a “Porter effect” using firm level data on output and inputs from Swedish industry between 1990 and 2004. By utilizing a factor demand modeling approach, and specifying a profit function which has a technology component dependent upon firm specific effective tax on CO2, we are able to separate out the effect of regulatory pressure on technological progress. The results indicate that there is evidence of a reversed “Porter effect” in most industrial sectors, specifically energy intensive industries.

Suggested Citation

  • Brännlund, Runar & Lundgren, Tommy, 2009. "Environmental policy and profitability. Evidence from Swedish industry," Sustainable Investment and Corporate Governance Working Papers 2009/2, Sustainable Investment Research Platform.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhb:sicgwp:2009_002
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sirp.se/getfile.ashx?cid=48377&cc=3&refid=2
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    CO2 tax; factor demands; induced technological change; Porter argument;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hhb:sicgwp:2009_002. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Pontus Cerin (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iikthse.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.