It remains an open question whether the impact of environmental regulations differs by the size of the business. Such differences might be expected because of statutory, enforcement, and/or compliance asymmetries. Here, we consider the net effect of these three asymmetries, by estimating the...

This paper has two main purposes: ( 1 ) to develop a method for measuring the extent and bias of technical change which involves the use of non-parametric production frontiers and does not require information on prices or factor shares; (2) to apply this method to individual farm data drawn from...

The modified data envelopment analysis (DEA) model used in this study models the joint production of good and bad outputs in order to determine the relative importance of factors associated with changes in SO2 emissions by manufacturing industries in the United States. This new decomposition...

Surveys have been the principal method used to estimate costs associated with environmental regulations in the United States. Although surveys have been widely used, there are concerns about their accuracy. In order to investigate the accuracy of survey estimates of pollution abatement costs,...

This study proposes a new theoretical framework - modeling the joint production of good and bad outputs - to determine the association between pollution abatement activities and changes in traditional productivity growth. After using the joint production model to investigate the theoretical...

This study derives the relationship between environmental production functions and environmental directional distance functions. These two approaches make different assumptions when modeling the joint production of good and bad outputs. The environmental production function credits a producer...