Reported expenditures for environmental protection are often cited as an assessment of the burden of current regulatory efforts. However, the potential for both incidental savings and uncounted costs means that the actual burden could be either higher or lower than these reported values.<BR> Using a...

In a 1991 essay in Scientific American, Michael Porter suggested that environmental regulation may have a positive effect on the performance of domestic firms relative to their foreign competitors by stimulating domestic innovation. We examine the stylized facts regarding environmental...

A 400-sector input-output framework is used in the decomposition of industry output change in the United States during the period 1963-78 into the portion att ributable to changes in the level and composition of final demands, and the fraction attributable to changing input-output coefficients....