Economic costs and consequences of environmental regulation / edited by Wayne B. Gray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Wayne B. (Wayne Burger), 1955-

Series:

International library of environmental economics and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Economic aspects.

Environmental policy.

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

xxx, 451 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hant, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Dartmouth, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Productivity and Production functions

1 'Effects of Selected Changes in the Institutional and Human Environment Upon Output Per Unit of Input', Survey of Current Business, 58, pp. 21-44 (1978) / Edward F. Denison 3

2 'Public Regulations and the Slowdown in Productivity Growth', American Economic Review, 71, pp. 320-25 (1981) / Gregory B. Christainsen, Robert H. Haveman 27

3 'The Cost of Regulation: OSHA, EPA and the Productivity Slowdown', American Economic Review, 77, pp. 998-1006 (1987) / Wayne B. Gray 33

4 'Environmental Regulations and Productivity Growth: The Case of Fossil-fueled Electric Power Generation', Journal of Political Economy, 91, pp. 654-74 (1983) / Frank M. Gollop, Mark J. Roberts 43

5 'Pollution Abatement Costs, Regulation, and Plant-Level Productivity', NBER Working Paper 4994, pp. i, 1-30 (1995) / Wayne B. Gray, Ronald J. Shadbegian 65

6 'The Impact of Pollution Abatement Investment on Productivity Change: An Empirical Comparison of the U.S., Germany, and Canada', Southern Economic Journal, 55, pp. 684-98 (1989) / Klaus Conrad, Catherine J. Morrison 97

7 'Environmental Regulation and Profitability: An Application to Swedish Pulp and Paper Mills', Environmental and Resource Economics, 6, pp. 23-36 (1995) / Runar Brannlund, Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf 113

Part II Plant Location

8 'The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Business Location in the United States', Growth and Change, 9, pp. 22-44 (1988) / Timothy J. Bartik 129

9 'Environmental Regulations and Manufacturers' Location Choices: Evidence from the Census of Manufactures', Journal of Public Economics, 62, pp. 5-29 (1996) / Arik Levinson 153

10 'Effects of Air Quality Regulations on Polluting Industries', Journal of Political Economy, 108, pp. 379-421 (2000) / Randy Becker, Vernon Henderson 179

Part III Macroeconomic and General Equilibrium Effects

11 'Environmental Regulation and U.S. Economic Growth', Rand Journal of Economics, 21, pp. 314-40 (1990) / Dale W. Jorgenson, Peter J. Wilcoxen 225

12 'Social Cost of Environmental Quality Regulations: A General Equilibrium Analysis', Journal of Political Economy, 98, pp. 853-73 (1990) / Michael Hazilla, Raymond J. Kopp 253

Part IV Trade and Competitiveness

13 'Economic Growth, International Competitiveness and Environmental Protection: R & D and Innovation Strategies with the WARM Model', Energy Economics, 19, pp. 2-28 (1997) / Carlo Carraro, Marzio Galeotti 277

14 'Do Stringent Environmental Regulations Reduce the International Competitiveness of Environmentally Sensitive Goods? A Global Perspective', World Development, 27, pp. 1215-26 (1999) / Xinpeng Xu 305

15 'Industrial Pollution Abatement: The Impact on Balance of Trade', Canadian Journal of Economics, 21, pp. 187-99 (1988) / H. David Robison 317

Part V Miscellaneous Effects

Plant Closures

16 'Enforcement of Pollution Regulations in a Declining Industry', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 21, pp. 260-74 (1991) / Mary E. Deily, Wayne B. Gray 335

Investment

17 'Environmental Regulation, Investment Timing, and Technology Choice', Journal of Industrial Economics, 46, pp. 235-56 / Wayne B. Gray, Ronald J. Shadbegian 353

Capital Turnover

18 'Differential Environmental Regulation: Effects on Electric Utility Capital Turnover and Emissions', Review of Economics and Statistics, 75, pp. 368-73 (1993) / Randy A. Nelson, Tom Tietenberg, Michael R. Donihue 377

19 'The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Optimal Plant Size and Factor Shares', Journal of Law & Economics, 27, pp. 1-28 (1984) / B. Peter Pashigian 383

Part VI The Porter Hypothesis

20 'Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9, pp. 97-118 (1995) / Michael E. Porter, Claas van der Linde 413

21 'Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9, pp. 119-32 (1995) / Karen Palmer, Wallace E. Oates, Paul R. Portney 435.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754621928

OCLC:

46812080