Does Plant Ownership Affect the level of Pollution Abatement Expenditure?

Working Papers from Portsmouth University - Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper considers a number of hypotheses. Primarily amongst them is the notion that foreign owned plants spend more on pollution abatement than domestically owned plants after controlling for productive efficiency and cognisant of the prevailing regulatory regime. In essence, this study directly estimates the influence of ownership and efficiency characteristics in firms' decisions regarding whether to spend or not on pollution control and how much to spend.

Keywords: POLLUTION; EFFICIENCY; MANUFACTURING (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L60 O52 Q20 Q30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001

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