Environmental regulation as a barrier to the formation of small manufacturing establishments: A longitudinal examination

被引:72
作者
Dean, TJ
Brown, RL
Stango, V
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, Grad Sch Business Adm, Div Strategy & Org, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Idaho State Univ, Coll Business, Dept Management, Pocatello, ID 83209 USA
[3] Univ Tennessee, Coll Business Adm, Dept Econ, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
关键词
environmental; regulation; entry; barrier; manufacturing; small business;
D O I
10.1006/jeem.1999.1105
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulations on the formation of small manufacturing establishments. Examining new business formations across 170 manufacturing industries over a ten-year span suggested that a greater intensity of environmental regulation is associated with fewer small business formations. There were no effects on the formation of. large establishments, implying that environmental regulations put small entrants at a unit cost disadvantage. This finding is consistent with our arguments fur compliance asymmetries, enforcement asymmetries, and statutory asymmetries. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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