The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate the...
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Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72654 |