List of Articles Q52

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  1 - Impact of Environmental Policies in Value-Added of Transportation Sector
  mirhosein mosavi ghader safarzadeh
  Transportation is one of the most polluting divisions of economical interest, though it has various important negative effects on the national economy. Thus, environmental considerations in this field should be accounted for by high priority. In this work, by using diff More

  Transportation is one of the most polluting divisions of economical interest, though it has various important negative effects on the national economy. Thus, environmental considerations in this field should be accounted for by high priority. In this work, by using different pollution parameters in transportation, consumption and production divisions, the effects of shadow price of environmental pollutants resulting from combustion of fuels on value added growth will be investigated through structural time series model (STSM). Since, shadow price of the environmental pollutant must be extracted initially; the instantaneous frontier pattern is used. Hence, after the evaluation of shadow prices in the transportation field, total prices for CO2, NOx and SO2 are calculated by assuming the individual diffusion contributions from those of the total contributions. Finally, the effects of these totally calculated results on value added growth are investigated by considering other defining variables. The resulting coefficient of shadow price growth by the value of -0.25 indicates inverse relation for this price between the transportation and value added growth. Manuscript profile
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  2 - The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Industry Competitiveness: Evidence from Manufacturing Industries of USA, U.K & Canada
  somaye azami mojtaba almasi afsaneh golmohammadi
  This study investigates the effects of environmental regulations on manufacturing industries of the selected OECD countries (USA, U.K & Canada) using Porter Hypothesis (PH) and structure- conduct- performance- Paradigm (SCPP) during 1970-2013, by regarding to simult More

  This study investigates the effects of environmental regulations on manufacturing industries of the selected OECD countries (USA, U.K & Canada) using Porter Hypothesis (PH) and structure- conduct- performance- Paradigm (SCPP) during 1970-2013, by regarding to simultaneous equations, and considering interoperability among market elements.Pollution Abatement Capital Expenditures (PACE) and environmental innovations are substitute variables for environmental regulations and competitiveness subsequently. The results show that increased industries expenditure to reduce emissions significantly increases their innovations and this proves Weak Porter Hypothesis (WPH) indicating positive impact of environmental regulation on competitiveness of the industries. Therefore, environmental regulations promote not only environmental quality, but also improve the industries competitiveness. The results, also, confirm the view that environmental policies are a win-win strategy. Manuscript profile