How Does Environmental Policy Stringency Affect Inefficiency of Firms? New Evidence from International Firm-Level Data
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Environmental policy stringency; Porter hypothesis; Stochastic frontier analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
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