Eco-label Adoption in an Interdependent World

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The growing popularity of national efforts to promote eco-labeling raises important questions. In particular, developing countries fear that the eco-label can deliberately impose the environmental concern of (high income) importing countries on their production methods. Yet, empirical studies of the adoption of eco-labelling schemes at the cross-country level are scarce due to the lack of data availability. In this paper, the decision to introduce an eco-label is analyzed through a heteroskedastic Bayesian spatial probit, which allows the government’s decision to introduce an eco-label to be influenced by the behaviour of the neighbouring countries. The estimation is performed by extending the joint updating approach proposed by Holmes & Held (2006) to a spatial framework. Empirical evidence highlights the importance of a high stage of development, innovation experience and potential scale effects in the implementation of an eco-label scheme. In addition, results confirm the existence of a strategic interdependence in the eco-label decision.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IRENE Working Paper ; No. 10-01

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Environment ; Bayesian Analysis: General ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
• Thema: Bayesian Spatial Probit ; International Trade ; Environmental Policy ; Eco-labelling

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Monteiro, José-Antonio
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Economic Research (IRENE)
• (wo): Neuchâtel
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/191460
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ