The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis

Jean-Pierre Huiban, Camilla Mastromarco (), Antonio Musolesi () and M. Simioni

Working Papers MoISA from INRA, UMR Moïsa

Abstract: This paper attempts to estimate the impact of pollution abatement investments on the production technology of firms by pursuing two new directions. First, we take advantage of recent econometric developments in productivity and efficiency analysis and compare the results obtained with two complementary approaches: parametric stochastic frontier analysis and conditional nonparametric frontier analysis. Second, we focus not only on the average effect but also on its heterogeneity across ?rms and over time and search for potential nonlinearities. We provide new results suggesting that such an effect is heterogeneous both within ?rms and over time and indicating that the effect of pollution abatement investments on the production process is not monotonic. These results have relevant implications both for modeling and for the purposes of advice on environmentally friendly policy. ....French Abstract : Cet article estime l’impact des investissements anti-pollution sur la technologie en suivant deux nouvelles directions. Premièrement, il s’inspire de travaux économétriques récents en analyse de la productivité et de l’efficacité et compare les résultats obtenus en utilisant deux approches complémentaires : l’approche paramétrique des frontières stochastiques de production et celle non paramétrique de frontières de production. Deuxièmement, l’analyse ne se concentre plus sur le seul comportement moyen mais s’intéresse à l’hétérogénéité des effets des investissements anti-pollution entre les firmes dans le temps. Une attention particulière est ainsi donnée à la détection de non linéarités. Les résultats empiriques apportent un éclairage nouveau sur ces effets en montrant qu’ils sont hétérogènes à la fois entre les firmes et dans le temps et qu’ils ne sont pas monotones. De tels résultats ont une implication en termes non seulement de modélisation des effets des investissements anti-pollution sur la technologie mais aussi de recommandations pour la politique environnementale de réduction des émissions polluantes des firmes.

Keywords: POLLUTION ABATEMENT INVESTMENTS; TECHNOLOGY; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS; CONDITIONAL NONPARAMETRIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED PRODUCT KERNELS; GENERALIZED LOCAL POLYNOMIAL KERNEL REGRESSION; INVESTISSEMENTS ANTIPOLLUTION; TECHNOLOGIE; FRONTIERES STOCHASTIQUE DE PRODUCTION; ESTIMATION NON PARAMETRIQUE DES FRONTIERES DE PRODUCTION; ESTIMATEURS DE NOYAUX; INDUSTRIE AGROALIMENTAIRE FRANCAISE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C23 D24 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis (2016)
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