Environmental protection versus economic development: A false trade-off?
Environmental protection versus economic development: A false trade-off?
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DOI：
10.1111/0033-3352.00032
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发表时间：
2001-05-01
影响因子：
8.3
通讯作者：
Stream, C
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作者：
Feiock, RC;Stream, C
监管的社会效益和发展的经济效益之间的权衡不可避免吗？我们认为，在某些情况下，环境监管可能会阻碍经济增长，但在其他情况下，监管的好处可能会在很少或根本没有经济损失的情况下获得。我们基于公众对私人资源分配决策的影响模型，对国家环境政策的经济影响进行了解释。在这个模型中，我们假设效用最大化的公司将根据其投资的预期利润和他们接受与投资相关的风险的意愿来做出投资选择。我们断言，国家政策和行政机构通过增加或减少未来环境政策的不确定性来影响人们对风险的看法，并通过影响公司层面的生产成本来影响特定地点的投资回报。我们的结果证实，环境监管的某些行政安排可能会促进而不是阻碍经济发展。
Is a trade-off between the social benefits of regulation and the economic benefits of development inevitable? We argue that environmental regulation may deter economic growth in some contexts, however, in other contexts the benefits of regulation may be obtained with little or no economic loss. We develop an explanation of the economic impacts of state environmental policy based on a model of public influence on private resource allocation decisions. In this model, we assume utility-maximizing firms will make investment choices based upon the projected profits on their investments and their willingness to accept the risk associated with the investments. We assert that state policies and administrative institutions influence perceptions of risk by increasing or decreasing uncertainty over future environmental policy and influence return on investments at particular locations by affecting firm-level production costs. Our results confirm that certain administrative arrangements for environmental regulation may enhance, rather than impede, economic development.