Hog Industry Structure and the Stringency of Environmental Regulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-358
Author(s):  
Azzeddine Azzam ◽  
Gibson Nene ◽  
Karina Schoengold
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Hog Industry

Environmental Regulation Cost and Industry Structure Changes

2011 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Burton ◽  
I. A. Gomez ◽  
H. A. Love
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Structure Changes

scholarly journals Estimation of cost efficiency of fattening pigs, sows, and piglets using SFA approach analysis: Evidence from China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261240
Author(s):  
Gangyi Wang ◽  
Chang’e Zhao ◽  
Yuzhuo Shen ◽  
Ni Yin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Hog Industry ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Efficiency Losses ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fattening Pigs

The hog industry is the core industry in the field of agriculture and animal husbandry in China, which development is related to the improvement of people’s quality of life. The production of the hog industry has been restricted by environmental regulations, which needs to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Based on the data of 29 provinces from 2008 to 2019, this paper aims to use the stochastic frontier analysis method to calculate the cost efficiency of fattening pigs, sows, and piglets in three stages of pig production and focuses on the impact of environmental regulation policies on cost efficiency. The study found that the cost efficiency of fattening pigs, sows, and piglets in China were 0.77, 0.79, and 0.53, respectively, and the efficiency losses were 23%, 21%, and 47%, respectively. The impact of environmental regulation policies on the cost efficiency of fattening pigs showed an ’ N ’ trend, and the impact on the cost efficiency of sows and piglets showed an inverted ’ N ’ trend. For fattening pigs, increasing the intensity of environmental regulation, and exceeding the second inflection point of the ’ N ’ curve can achieve the dual goals of environmental governance and cost reduction and efficiency increase. For sows, reducing the intensity of environmental regulation appropriately can avoid cost-efficiency loss. For piglets, environmental regulation policies have not effectively incentives the cost efficiency of piglets. In addition, raising the level of technology investment in fattening pigs and sows can achieve cost efficiency gains, and can farmers use emerging financial product tools such as ’ insurance + futures ’ to avoid market risks and efficiency losses.

Economic models of Environment monitoring under imperfect information and high Costs

2014 ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
M. Levin ◽  
K. Matrosova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Environment Monitoring ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Effective System

The paper considers monitoring of environmental change as the central element of environmental regulation. Monitoring, as each kind of principalagent relations, easily gives rise to corruptive behavior. In the paper we analyze economic models of environmental monitoring with high costs, incomplete information and corruption. These models should be the elements of environmental economics and are needed to create an effective system of nature protection measures.

Impacts of Environmental Regulation on Sustainable Economic Growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 749-773
Author(s):  
Jonathan Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Porter Hypothesis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Environment Agency ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

There is considerable concern and debate about the economic impacts of environmental regulations. Jonathan Fisher, former Economics Manager at the Environment Agency in England and Wales, reviews the available evidence on this subject. Section 2 presents estimates of the costs and benefits of environmental regulations. Section 3 examines the impacts of environmental regulations on economic growth, innovation and technical change as well as impacts on competitiveness and any movement of businesses to less pollution havens. He questions call for greater certainty regarding future environmental regulations, whereas in fact there should be calls for less uncertainty. This section then suggests how this could be achieved. This section then finishes with an overview of the available evidence. This includes an examination of the Porter Hypothesis that environmental regulations can trigger greater innovation that may partially or more than fully offset the compliance costs. Section 4 then sets out principles for how better environmental regulation can improve its impacts on sustainable economic growth and illustrates how the European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive is a good example of the application of these principles in practice. Section 5 reviews current and recent political perspectives regarding developments in environmental regulations across the EU and shows how the United Kingdom (UK) has successfully positively managed to influence such developments so that EU environmental regulations now incorporate many of these principles to improve their impacts on economic growth. Section 5.1 then examines the implications of Brexit for UK environmental regulations. Finally, Section 6 sets out some best practice principles to improve the impacts of environmental regulation on sustainable economic growth, innovation and technical change.

Lighting Industry: Structure and Technology in the Transition to Solid State

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Walsh Sanderson ◽  
Kenneth L. Simons ◽  
Judith L. Walls ◽  
Yin-Yi Lai
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Lighting Industry
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