Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed almost exclusively on US and Japanese firms. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major developed economic markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to...

Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed almost exclusively on US and Japanese firms. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major developed economic markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to...

Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed almost exclusively on US and Japanese firms. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major developed economic markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to...

Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed almost exclusively on US and Japanese firms. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major developed economic markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to...

The empirical environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature is vast but far from conclusive. Many authors have analysed the existence of an EKC for various pollutants. Others have used to EKC framework to identify country characteristics that help to explain the income-environment relationship....

We analyze the relocation decision of a monopolist under various assumptions with respect to the difference in environmental policy stringency between the home and foreign country. We show that relocation because of such a difference is highly unlikely in a model that includes uncertainty with...

This paper uses 5-year non-overlapping emissions growth equations for sulphur and carbon dioxide to estimate the impact of economic growth on environmental quality. It is shown that the impact of economic growth on emissions growth depends on the level of income. Economic growth reduces...