Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship

Accepting a fixed trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress. Studies finding high environmental compliance costs have traditionally focused on static cost impacts, ignoring any offsetting productivity benefits from...

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Published in:	The Journal of economic perspectives Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 97 - 118
Main Authors:	Porter, Michael E., van der Linde, Claas
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville American Economic Association 01-10-1995
Subjects:	Business innovation Capital costs Competition Competitive advantage Competitiveness Compliance costs Costs Economic regulation Energy consumption Environmental agencies Environmental policy Environmental pollution Environmental protection Environmental regulation Environmental regulations Industrial policy Industrial regulation Innovation Innovations Productivity Profits Regulation Symposia: Might Environmental Regulation Promote Growth? Technological innovation
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