Why some countries adopt ecolabeling schemes in their regulatory arsenal and others do not?

Gilles Grolleau and Sana El Harbi ()
Additional contact information
Sana El Harbi: Université de Sousse

Economics Bulletin, 2008, vol. 17, issue 3, pages 1-11

Abstract: We use data to investigate econometrically the determinants of the adoption of ecolabeling schemes among countries. Our findings show that economic and political freedoms, innovation capacities and experience with other environmental voluntary approaches play a major, sometimes counter-intuitive, role to explain the diffusion of governmental ecolabeling programs.

Keywords: Ecolabels; Diffusion; Environmental policy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q2 H8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01-14
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://economicsbulletin.vanderbilt.edu/2008/volume17/EB-07Q20029A.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from Economics Bulletin
Address: Economics Bulletin, Department of Economics, 414 Calhoun Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235, USA
Series data maintained by John Conley ().