ECONOMIC COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

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How expensive is environmental regulation and how does it affect the economy? A proper understanding of the costs imposed by environmental regulation is important for policy-makers and others concerned with regulatory design.

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• Acknowledgements (p. ix)
• Series Preface (p. xi)
• Introduction (p. xiii)
• Part I Productivity and Production functions
• 1 'Effects of Selected Changes in the Institutional and Human Environment Upon Output Per Unit of Input', Survey of Current Business, 58, pp. 21-44 (1978) (p. 3)
• 2 'Public Regulations and the Slowdown in Productivity Growth', American Economic Review, 71, pp. 320-25 (1981) (p. 27)
• 3 'The Cost of Regulation: OSHA, EPA and the Productivity Slowdown', American Economic Review, 77, pp. 998-1006 (1987) (p. 33)
• 4 'Environmental Regulations and Productivity Growth: The Case of Fossil-fueled Electric Power Generation', Journal of Political Economy, 91, pp. 654-74 (1983) (p. 43)
• 5 'Pollution Abatement Costs, Regulation, and Plant-Level Productivity', NBER Working Paper 4994, pp. i, 1-30 (1995) (p. 65)
• 6 'The Impact of Pollution Abatement Investment on Productivity Change: An Empirical Comparison of the U.S., Germany, and Canada', Southern Economic Journal, 55, pp. 684-98 (1989) (p. 97)
• 7 'Environmental Regulation and Profitability: An Application to Swedish Pulp and Paper Mills', Environmental and Resource Economics, 6, pp. 23-36 (1995) (p. 113)
• Part II Plant Location
• 8 'The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Business Location in the United States', Growth and Change, 9, pp. 22-44 (1988) (p. 129)
• 9 'Environmental Regulations and Manufacturers' Location Choices: Evidence from the Census of Manufactures', Journal of Public Economics, 62, pp. 5-29 (1996) (p. 153)
• 10 'Effects of Air Quality Regulations on Polluting Industries', Journal of Political Economy, 108, pp. 379-421 (2000) (p. 179)
• Part III Macroeconomic and General Equilibrium Effects
• 11 'Environmental Regulation and U.S. Economic Growth', Rand Journal of Economics, 21, pp. 314-40 (1990) (p. 225)
• 12 'Social Cost of Environmental Quality Regulations: A General Equilibrium Analysis', Journal of Political Economy, 98, pp. 853-73 (1990) (p. 253)
• Part IV Trade and Competitiveness
• 13 'Economic Growth, International Competitiveness and Environmental Protection: R & D and Innovation Strategies with the WARM Model', Energy Economics, 19, pp. 2-28 (1997) (p. 277)
• 14 'Do Stringent Environmental Regulations Reduce the International Competitiveness of Environmentally Sensitive Goods? A Global Perspective', World Development, 27, pp. 1215-26 (1999) (p. 305)
• 15 'Industrial Pollution Abatement: The Impact on Balance of Trade', Canadian Journal of Economics, 21, pp. 187-99 (1988) (p. 317)
• Part V Miscellaneous Effects
• Plant Closures
• 16 'Enforcement of Pollution Regulations in a Declining Industry', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 21, pp. 260-74 (1991) (p. 335)
• Investment
• 17 'Environmental Regulation, Investment Timing, and Technology Choice', Journal of Industrial Economics, 46, pp. 235-56 (p. 353)
• Capital Turnover
• 18 'Differential Environmental Regulation: Effects on Electric Utility Capital Turnover and Emissions', Review of Economics and Statistics, 75, pp. 368-73 (1993) (p. 377)
• 19 'The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Optimal Plant Size and Factor Shares', Journal of Law & Economics, 27, pp. 1-28 (1984) (p. 383)
• Part VI The Porter Hypothesis
• 20 'Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9, pp. 97-118 (1995) (p. 413)
• 21 'Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9, pp. 119-32 (1995) (p. 435)
• Name Index (p. 449)