When Do Firms Shift Production across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?

Wayne Gray and Ron Shadbegian

Land Economics, 2024, vol. 100, issue 3, 443-457

Abstract: This article tests the impact of state environmental regulatory stringency on firms’ allocation of production across states using plant-level U.S. Census data for the paper industry during 1967–2012. We model firms’ production shares in each state with a conditional logit specification, testing several measures of state regulatory stringency and controlling for other state characteristics. Firms with relatively low compliance rates are more likely to avoid stringent states compared to firms with the highest compliance rates. This is consistent with our theoretical model when firms’ compliance decisions are affected more by differences across their costs, rather than their benefits, of compliance.

JEL-codes: Q53 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.100.3.071921-0084R
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Working Paper: When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation? (2002)
Working Paper: When Do Firms Shift Production Across State to Avoid Environmental Regulation? (2002)
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