RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Do Environmental Regulations Influence the Location Behavior of French Firms?
JF Land Economics
JO Land Econ
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 382
OP 395
DO 10.3368/le.84.3.382
VO 84
IS 3
A1 Raspiller, Sébastien
A1 Riedinger, Nicolas
YR 2008
UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/84/3/382.abstract
AB This paper investigates the impact of environmental regulations on the location choices made by firms for their industrial activities, using a sample of newly appeared imports of French firms from foreign industrial subsidiaries. A simple static model based on the production cost minimization is developed in order to control for heterogeneous factor costs within countries, distinguishing skilled labor, unskilled labor, and capital. Environmental regulations are then shown to be neither statistically nor economically a significant determinant of the location behavior of French firms. (JEL Q58, R38)