The impact of pollution abatement investments on technology: Porter hypothesis revisited

Jean-Pierre Huiban, Camilla Mastromarco (), Antonio Musolesi () and Michel Simioni ()
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Michel Simioni: Toulouse School of Economics, INRA-GREMAQ and IDEI, France

No 815, SEEDS Working Papers from SEEDS, Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies

Abstract: This paper revisits the Porter hypothesis by pursuing two new directions. First, we compare the results obtained with two complementary approaches: parametric stochastic frontier analysis and conditional nonparametric frontier analysis. They presents relative advantages and drawbacks. Secondly, we pay attention not only on the average pollution abatement effort effect but we also focus on its variability across rms and over time. We provide new results suggesting that the traditional view about the effect of environmental regulation on productivity and the Porter hypothesis may coexist. This evidence supports the idea that a well-designed environmental regulation affects positively the rm performances in some instances.

Keywords: Porter hypothesis; pollution abatement investment; stochastic frontier analysis; time-varying eciency; Vuong test; conditional nonparametric frontier analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C23 D24 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2015-04, Revised 2015-04
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