Environmental regulations and business decisions

Artikel

Environmental regulations raise production costs at regulated firms, though in most cases the costs are only a small fraction of a firm’s total costs. Productivity tends to fall, and firms may shift new investment and production to locations with less stringent regulation. However, environmental regulations have had enormous benefits in terms of lives saved and illnesses averted, especially through reductions in airborne particulates. The potential health gains may be even greater in developing countries, where pollution levels are high. The benefits to society from environmental regulation hence appear to be much larger than the costs of compliance.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2015 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy
• Thema: regulation ; productivity ; plant location ; pollution abatement costs

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gray, Wayne B.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.187
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125404
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ