PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Collins, Alan
AU  - Harris, Richard I. D.
TI  - Does Plant Ownership Affect the Level of Pollution Abatement Expenditure?
AID  - 10.2307/3147267
DP  - 2002 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 171--189
VI  - 78
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/78/2/171.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/78/2/171.full
SO  - Land Econ2002 May 01; 78
AB  - This paper considers a number of hypotheses. Primary among them is the notion that foreign-owned plants spend more on pollution abatement than do domestically owned plants after controlling for productive efficiency and cognizant of the prevailing regulatory regime. The evidence drawn upon in the first econometric assessment of this contention is plant level data from the U.K. metal manufacturing industry. In essence, this study directly estimates the influence of ownership and efficiency characteristics in firms’ decisions regarding whether to spend or not on pollution control and how much to spend. (JEL Q25)