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Environmental Policy, Public Interest and Political Market [PDF]
In this article, we highlight the factors which influence governments in their decision to implement environmental policies of varying degrees of severity.
Georges A. Tanguay +2 more
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Promoting proactive auditing behaviors
Abstract In this paper, we introduce the construct of proactive auditing behaviors to the accounting literature and report the first experimental investigation of their antecedents. Regulators and practitioners agree that proactive behaviors are needed to consistently achieve high‐quality audit outcomes, but also that these behaviors are scarce ...
Mark E. Peecher +2 more
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Environmental Policy, Innovation and Performance: New Insights on the Porter Hypothesis [PDF]
Jaffe and Palmer (1997) present three distinct variants of the so-called Porter Hypothesis. The “weak” version of the hypothesis posits that environmental regulation will stimulate certain kinds of environmental innovations.
Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti +3 more
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Remarks on Environmental Regulation, Firm Behavior and Innovation [PDF]
The Porter Hypothesis says that well-designed environmental regulation should trigger innovations and enhance the competitiveness of firms. This paper, which follows the invitation to participate at a recent workshop financed by the Environmental ...
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné
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Productivité et réglementation environnementale: une analyse de l'hypothèse de Porter [PDF]
The Porter hypothesis predicts that environmental regulations (ER) should have a positive impact on the productivity of the regulated firms. In this paper, we review the theoretical and empirical arguments surrounding this hypothesis.
Ambec, Stefan, Barla, Philippe
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The Choice of Instruments for Environmental Policy: Liability or Regulation? [PDF]
We address in this paper the problem of comparing and choosing among different policy instruments to implement the incentive objective of an efficient deterrence of environmental degradation and the remedy objective of an efficient clean-up of damages ...
Donatella Porrini, Marcel Boyer
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When and Why Does It Pay To Be Green? [PDF]
The conventional wisdom about environmental protection is that it comes at an additional cost on firms imposed by the government, which may erode their global competitiveness. However, during the last decade, this paradigm has been challenged by a number
Paul Lanoie, Stefan Ambec
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La réaction des consommateurs à l'information environnementale : une étude expérimentale [PDF]
Les préoccupations liées au développement durable font aujourd'hui partie intégrante de la société. Ce phénomène se traduit chez un nombre grandissant de citoyens-consommateurs par l'adoption d'une attitude positive envers les problématiques ...
François, Julien Claude Bernard
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The riparian protection strip of lakes and rivers has been regulated since 2007 in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez. This village is located in the province of Quebec in Canada.
Richard Massicotte
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Environmental Regulation and Productivity: New Findings on the Porter Analysis [PDF]
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between the stringency of environmental regulation and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the Quebec manufacturing sector. This allows us to investigate more fully the Porter hypothesis
Richard Lajeunesse +2 more
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