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Environmental regulation, pollution abatement and productivity: A frontier analysis.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Environmental regulation, pollution abatement and productivity: A frontier analysis./
Author:	Sharma, Shital.
Description:	110 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-01A(E).
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3574697
ISBN:	9781303516672

Environmental regulation, pollution abatement and productivity: A frontier analysis.
Sharma, Shital.

Environmental regulation, pollution abatement and productivity: A frontier analysis. - 110 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Clark University, 2013.

This research studies how environmental regulations and the resulting abatement costs that plants face translate into a loss in productivity and loss in output for plants among pulp and paper mills and oil refineries in the U.S primarily using the U.S. Census data and EPA's emissions and pollution abatement expenditure survey data. These data are used in different non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models to study plant productivity outcomes when accounting for abatement spending or emission regulations.

ISBN: 9781303516672Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Environmental regulation, pollution abatement and productivity: A frontier analysis.
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520 $a Results of cross-sectional analyses from various models studying the effect of regulation on productivity suggest that plants do experience reduced productive efficiency because of environmental regulations. These losses range anywhere between 2% and 10% of output. Results also indicate that the reported abatement expenditures are not able to explain all the losses arising out of regulation pointing to the possibility that the abatement expenditures are consistently under-reported. A plant fixed-effects approach to control for unobserved inputs affecting productive efficiency also yield similar results.
520 $a Next, the effect of including an 'environmental objective' in efficiency measurement is examined. Results indicate that including performance on emission reduction in efficiency measures changes the measure of cost of regulation for plants. Firms could benefit from this ability to measure plants' performance on differing objectives of production and pollution control or abatement at the same time depending on their needs. Researchers could also benefit from such methods of efficiency measurement when environmental objectives are important to a research. The final section looks at how the measure of productivity growth behaves over time. Results suggest that regulations did not have a noticeable impact on productivity growth. Productivity has grown for both pulp and paper mills and oil refineries for the sample period and is found to be affected by both technological changes and efficiency changes. While one effect is not dominant over the other all the time, plants are achieving growth mostly by catching up with their most efficient peers. Finally results suggest that the benefits of these environmental regulations far outweigh the costs providing some economic justification to the existence of regulations.
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