Ex Post Evaluation of an Earmarked Tax on Air Pollution

Millock, Katrin; Nauges, Celine

doi:10.3368/le.82.1.68

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“…More recent studies focus on the role of environmental management systems and research and development (R&D) in improving the environmental performance of firms (Anton et al, 2004, Johnstone et al, 2007. Other studies are limited to sector-level and country-level analysis due to the lack of firm-level data (Millock and Nauges, 2006). In this paper we use the E-PRTR firm-level data, for the first time, to examine the determinants of environmental performance of manufacturing firms in Europe.…”

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Does the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Enable Us to Understand the Environmental Performance of Firms?

Fikru

2011

Env Pol Gov

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The study explores a new micro environmental data set, the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR), by identifying limitations and potential strengths. We find that reporting requirements exclude on-site abatement through end-of-the-pipe techniques and cleaner technologies causing underestimation of firms' actual abatement. In addition, the lack of a mandatory section on production volume and firm size hinders data normalization and the use of control variables in economic analysis. Addressing the above limitations can make the E-PRTR more usable for policy-makers, environmentalists and academicians. Furthermore, the paper proposes a normalization procedure based on calculating how much beyond the threshold a firm has abated or emitted; and normalized values are used to approximate the environmental performance of firms. Analysis based on a sample of manufacturing firms suggests that industrial facilities in Europe have performed well in terms of abating a higher percentage of their gross pollution.

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Does the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Enable Us to Understand the Environmental Performance of Firms?

Fikru

2011

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“…The study by Millock and Nauges (2006) evaluates the effect of a tax-cum-rebate scheme in France using observations for 226 plants from three industrial sectors between 1995 and 1998.…”

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Differential Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Vollebergh

2007

SSRN Journal

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“…Even with regard to R&D, it is relevant to analyse its external and internal causes and the complementarity between various output innovation drivers, including, amongst the others, R&D . 14 Millock and Nauges (2006) evaluate the effect of the French tax on air pollution using data from 1990 to 1999 for a plant level dataset. They find a negative, although small, effect of the tax on main examined emissions, using a two stage model where an innovation function is first estimated and then used as explanatory variable in a second stage, where emissions are the focus variables.…”

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Environmental Efficiency, Emission Trends and Labour Productivity: Trade-Off or Joint Dynamics? Empirical Evidence Using NAMEA Panel Data

Mazzanti

Zoboli

2007

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between environmental efficiency and labour productivity using industry level data. We first provide a critical and extensive discussion around the interconnected issues of environmental efficiency and performance, firm performances and labour productivity, and environmental and non-environmental innovation dynamics. The most recent literature dealing with environmental innovation, environmental regulations and economic performances is taken as reference. We then test a newly adapted EKC hypothesis, by verifying the correlation between the two trends of environmental efficiency (productivity, namely sector emission on added value) and labour productivity (added value on employees) over a dynamic path. We exploit official NAMEA data sources for Italy over 1990-2002 for 29 sectoral branches. The period is crucial since environmental issues and then environmental policies came into the arena, and a restructuring of the economy occurred. It is thus interesting to assess the extent to which capital investments for the economy as a whole are associated with a positive or negative correlation between environmental efficiency of productive branches and labour productivity, often claimed by mainstream theory dealing with innovation in environmental economics. We believe that on the basis of the theoretical and empirical analyses focusing on innovation paths, firm performances and environmental externalities, there are good reasons to expect a positive correlation between environmental and labour productivities, or in alternative terms a negative correlation between mission intensity of production and labour productivity. The tested hypothesis is crucial within the long standing discussion over the potential trade-off or complementarity between environmental and labour productivity, strictly associated with sectoral and national technological innovation paths. The main added value of the paper is the analysis of the aforementioned hypothesis by exploiting a panel data set based on official NAMEA sectoral disaggregated accounting data, providing both cross section heterogeneity and a sufficient time span. We find that for most emissions, if not all, a negative correlation emerges between labour productivity and environmental productivity. Though this trend appears driven by the macro sectors services, manufacturing and industry, this evidence is not homogenous across emissions. In some cases U-shapes aris...

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Ex Post Evaluation of an Earmarked Tax on Air Pollution

Cited by 38 publications

References 23 publications

Does the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Enable Us to Understand the Environmental Performance of Firms?

Does the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Enable Us to Understand the Environmental Performance of Firms?

Differential Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Environmental Efficiency, Emission Trends and Labour Productivity: Trade-Off or Joint Dynamics? Empirical Evidence Using NAMEA Panel Data

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