Regulation-Induced Pollution Substitution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19316707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Gibson (0000-0002-1894-2472, Williams College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 827-840 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_00797 |
| OpenAlex | W2562658076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 34 |
Environmental regulations may cause firms to reoptimize over pollution inputs. By regulating air emissions in particular counties, the Clean Air Act (CAA) gives firms incentives to substitute toward polluting other media, like waterways, and toward pollution from plants in other counties. I test these hypotheses using the EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). Regulated plants increase their ratio of water-to-air emissions by 177% (102 log points) and their level of water emissions by 105% (72 log points). Regulation of an average plant increases air emissions at unregulated plants within the same firm by 11
Air pollution · Biology · Business · Clean Air Act · Economics · Environmental protection · Environmental regulation · Incentive · Microeconomics · Natural resource economics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Ecology · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Environmental Engineering · Environmental Science · Pollution · Regulation and Compliance Studies
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Environmental Regulation, Labor Income Share, and Implications for Inequality
Navigating Rivalry and Insight
Transboundary spillovers and decentralization of environmental policies
Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect
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Who Loses under Cap-and-Trade Programs? The Labor Market Effects of the NO x Budget Trading Program
Flexible Functional Forms and Regularity
Who Benefits from Environmental Regulation? Evidence from the Clean Air Act Amendments
The Enforcement of Pollution Control Laws
Effects of Air Quality Regulations on Polluting Industries
The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity
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| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2027 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |