Environmental tax and productivity in a decentralized context: new findings on the Porter hypothesis

Zárate‐Marco, Anabel; Giménez, Jaime Vallés

doi:10.1007/s10657-013-9400-5

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“…In other words, even if environmental taxes increase some of the company's operating costs in the short term, they will be offset in the long term by a range of benefits brought by technological progress. Research confirms that environmental taxes positively impact production costs in the long term (Yamazaki, 2022;Z arate-Marco & Vall es-Gim enez, 2015;Beladi, Chen, Chu, Hu, & Lai, 2021), financing (Zhu, Bu, Jin, & Mbroh, 2020) and the amount of tax liabilities (Cadoret, Galli, & Padovano, 2020).…”

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confidence: 71%

Managing health through environmental policies. Analysis for European Union countries

Postula,

Kluza,

Zioło

et al. 2024

CEMJ

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PurposeEnvironmental degradation resulting from human activities may adversely affect human health in multiple ways. Until now, policies aimed at mitigating environmental problems such as climate change, environmental pollution and damage to biodiversity have failed to clearly identify and drive the potential benefits of these policies on health. The conducted study assesses and demonstrates how specific environmental policies and instruments influence perceived human health in order to ensure input for a data-driven decision process.Design/methodology/approachThe study was conducted for the 2004–2020 period in European Union (EU) countries with the use of dynamic panel data modeling. Verification of specific policies' impact on dependent variables allows to indicate this their effectiveness and importance. As a result of the computed dynamic panel data models, it has been confirmed that a number of significant and meaningful relationships between the self-perceived health index and environmental variables can be identified.FindingsThere is a strong positive impact of environmental taxation on the health index, and the strength of this relationship causes effects to be observed in the very short term, even the following year. In addition, the development of renewable energy sources (RES) and the elimination of fossil fuels from the energy mix exert positive, although milder, effects on health. The reduction of ammonia emissions from agriculture and reducing noise pollution are other health-supporting factors that have been shown to be statistically valid. Results allow to identify the most efficient policies in the analyzed area in order to introduce those with the best results or a mix of such measures.Originality/valueThe results of the authors' research clearly indicate the health benefits of measures primarily aimed at improving environmental factors, such as environmental taxes in general. The authors have also discovered an unexpected negative impact of an increase in the share of energy taxes in total taxes on the health index. The presented study opens several possibilities for further investigation, especially in the context of the rapidly changing geopolitical environment and global efforts to respond to environmental and health challenges. The authors believe that the outcome of the authors' study may provide new arguments to policymakers pursuing solutions that are not always easily acceptable by the public.

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Section: Background: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 71%

Managing health through environmental policies. Analysis for European Union countries

Postula,

Kluza,

Zioło

et al. 2024

CEMJ

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“…When studying the impact of environmental regulations on green productivity or innovation, on one hand, previous studies have found environmental regulations are regarded as the initial source of green productivity or innovation 31,32 . In evidences from China, for instance, Wang et al 33 pointed that within a certain level of stringency, the environmental policy benefits urban green productivity growth by inducing the "innovation offset effect. "…”

Section: Impact Of Environmental Regulation On Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ambient Air Quality Standards, green innovation, and urban air quality: Evidence from China

Zhang,

2023

Preprint

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As the Chinese economy entering the transition period, the environmental issues have become the one of most concerned topics. Based on panel data of 284 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2006-2019, this study discusses the regulatory effects of the Ambient Air Quality Standards (AAQS) on urban air quality and its spatial spillover using the various DID models, and further builds a serial multiple mediation model to analyze the channel role of green innovation. The results reveal that (1) the implementation of the AAQS has a positive regulation effect on urban air quality, yet with a “inverted V-shaped” trend; (2) local implementation of the AAQS worsens the air quality of geographically adjacent cities within 400 km, while the effect is reversed for cities that are beyond 400 km; (3) heterogeneity analysis shows that the AAQS improves the air quality of central cities, medium-sized cities, cities of weak-intensity of environmental governance, recession or regeneration resource-based cities; and (4) it might reduce urban air quality only by inducing the green innovation per se. However, either by energy-use effect or industrial-structure effect triggered by the green innovation, can the AAQS favorably enhance urban air quality.

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“…Due to technology innovation input, it also greatly increases the ability of enterprises to resist risks (Khan et al, 2021;Zhang and Zheng, 2022). In addition to the advantages mentioned above, environmental taxes also positively impact corporate costs (Morris et al, 1999), production (Yamazaki, 2022;Zárate-Marco and Vallés-Giménez, 2015;Beladi et al, 2021;Li and Masui, 2019;Berman and Bui, 2001), financing (Zhu et al, 2020b) and redistribution (Leiter et al, 2011;Karydas and Zhang, 2017;Garbaccio et al, 1999), tax payment Cadoret et al, 2020;Zhou et al, 2019), and even macro industrial upgrading (He et al, 2021;Guan et al, 2019). In other words, even if a mandatory environmental tax increases some enterprise operating costs, these costs will be offset in the long run by a series of benefits brought about by technological advancement.…”

Section: Environmental Tax Revenue and Enterprise Economic Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of environmental taxes on economic benefits and technology innovation input of heavily polluting industries in China

Wang

Zhu

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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This paper defined heavily polluting enterprises as the treatment group based on relevant data on the listed companies in the 5 years from 2016 to 2020. Companies other than the heavily polluting enterprises were defined as the control group. An empirical analysis applying the double-difference technique was performed to assess the impact of China’s environmental tax on the economic performance and technological innovation input of industries that pollute heavily. The findings demonstrated an increased positive effects of environmental taxes on the economic performance and technology innovation input of heavily polluting industries since the inception of the environmental tax in China. As some enterprises in heavily polluting industries are under increased financial pressure owing to green upgrades and the low environmental tax rate in some regions, recommendations are presented to improve the environmental regulation system, adapt environmental taxes to local conditions, and strengthen the implementation and supervision of environmental taxes through big data technology.

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Environmental tax and productivity in a decentralized context: new findings on the Porter hypothesis

Cited by 28 publications

References 69 publications

Managing health through environmental policies. Analysis for European Union countries

Managing health through environmental policies. Analysis for European Union countries

The Ambient Air Quality Standards, green innovation, and urban air quality: Evidence from China

The impact of environmental taxes on economic benefits and technology innovation input of heavily polluting industries in China

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