scholarly journals Environmental Regulation and Manufacturing Productivity at the Plant Level

10.3386/w4321 ◽  
1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Gray ◽  
Ronald Shadbegian
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Manufacturing Productivity ◽  
Plant Level

scholarly journals The Decline of British Manufacturing, 1973–2012: The Role of Total Factor Productivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 247 ◽  
pp. R19-R31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Harris ◽  
John Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Tfp Growth ◽  
Manufacturing Productivity ◽  
Plant Level

This paper uses plant-level estimates of total factor productivity covering 40 years to examine what role, if any, productivity has played in the decline of output share and employment in British manufacturing. The results show that TFP growth in British manufacturing was negative between 1973 and 1982, marginally positive between 1982 and 1994 and strongly positive between 1994 and 2012. Poor TFP performance therefore does not appear to be the main cause of the decline of UK manufacturing. Productivity growth decompositions show that, in the latter period, the largest contributions to TFP growth come from foreign-owned plants, industries that are heavily involved in trade, and industries with high levels of intangible assets.

Environmental Regulations and the Clean-Up of Manufacturing: Plant-Level Evidence

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Nouri Najjar ◽  
Jevan Cherniwchan
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Emission Intensity ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Manufacturing Plant ◽  
Entry And Exit ◽  
Air Quality Standards ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Plant Level

For much of the industrialized world, pollution from manufacturing has been falling despite increased output. We examine how air quality standards—a common environmental regulation—have contributed to this "clean-up" of manufacturing. We develop a general equilibrium model to show how air quality standards can lead to a clean-up by causing: (i) reductions in plant emission intensity, (ii) relative changes in plant output, and (iii) plant entry and exit. We provide quasi-experimental evidence from Canada to highlight the magnitude of these responses. Our results suggest that air quality standards explain just under 40% of the clean-up of manufacturing.

scholarly journals What's the big deal?: the effect of corporate reforms on manufacturing productivity in Korea

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hojong Kang
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Plant Size ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Interaction Term ◽  
Manufacturing Productivity ◽  
Plant Level ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Do So

Although Korea has achieved striking economic success during last four decades, following the 1997-98 foreign exchange crisis, Korea's economy was in urgent need of restructuring amid a series of corporate bankruptcies and a paralyzing credit crunch. In this paper using an unpublished plant-level panel data set, I explore changes in total factor productivity and its growth before and after the crisis. In order to do so, I sort out eight industries that were most likely affected by the "Big Deal Program". The results suggest the Big Deal had a positive and significant effect on TFP levels. Bigger plants in Big Deal industries had differentially higher TFP levels However, these results are not robust to the bigger plants classified as being in the top 5% in terms of K/L ratio. Unlike the results for TFP levels, coefficient for the three variable interaction term ( DiTt[arrow][tau] Spt ) are all positive and significant with the plant-size specification. It means the bigger plants in eight Big Deal industries have more productivity growth even though they have lower TFP levels than the smaller plants after the reform. Depending on the plant-size specifications, the Big Deal program had a positive effect on the bigger plants in the Big Deal industries of 0.1 to 1.39 percents.

The Effectiveness of Environmental Regulation on Manufacturing Productivity in Jiangsu Province

2012 ◽  
Vol 472-475 ◽  
pp. 3286-3291
Author(s):  
Dan Yun Shen ◽  
Hui Ming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Efficiency Frontier ◽  
Dea Model ◽  
Manufacturing Productivity ◽  
Environment Regulation

The impacts of environment regulation on production efficiency of manufacturing industry in Jiangsu province are analyzed based on DEA model. Results indicate that environment regulation has a positive impact for the whole manufacturing industry, but complex effects among the different cities. Nanjing, Lian Yungang and Taizhou enter the efficiency frontier when regulation is implemented; while the manufacturing industry of Huai’an and Zhenjiang drop in the technical efficiency. Finally this paper offers relative suggestions.

Multinationals and environmental regulation: are foreign firms harmful?

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelina Dardati ◽  
Meryem Saygili
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Monopolistic Competition ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Heterogeneous Firms ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Domestic Firms ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Multinational Production ◽  
Plant Level

AbstractThe rise of globalization has directed the attention of economists to the effect of trade and multinational production on the environment. We explore whether multinational firms, frequently the target of environmentalists, are harmful for a host country's environment. We introduce environmental regulation in a two-country model of heterogeneous firms with monopolistic competition. Using plant-level data from Chile, we test the model implications. We find that foreign firms are cleaner than domestic plants even after controlling for productivity that is likely to be negatively correlated with emissions. We also show that increasing the stringency of environmental regulations in a previously unregulated market affects the domestic firms more than the multinationals.

Environmental Regulation and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Reed Walker
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Clean Air Act ◽  
County Level ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Labor Reallocation ◽  
Regulatory Status ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Plant Level ◽  
The Impact

This paper uses newly available data on plant level regulatory status linked to the Census Longitudinal Business Database to measure the impact of changes in county level environmental regulations on plant and sector employment levels. Estimates from a variety of specifications suggest a strong connection between changes in environmental regulatory stringency and both employment growth and levels in the affected sectors. The preferred estimates suggest that changes in county level regulatory status due to the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments reduced the size of the regulated sector by as much as 15 percent in the 10 years following the changes.

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