RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Does Plant Ownership Affect the Level of Pollution Abatement Expenditure?
JF Land Economics
JO Land Econ
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 171
OP 189
DO 10.2307/3147267
VO 78
IS 2
A1 Collins, Alan
A1 Harris, Richard I. D.
YR 2002
UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/78/2/171.abstract
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)