Environmental Regulation as a Barrier to the Formation of Small Manufacturing Establishments: A Longitudinal Examination

By Thomas J. Dean, Robert L. Brown, Victor Stango. 2000

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Air pollution abatement costs under the Clean Air Act: evidence from the PACE survey (2005, background): “None of these results, however, necessarily speak to hypotheses of the regulatory implications of establishment characteristics, as explored by Becker and Henderson (2000, 2001), Dean et al. (2000), among others.”
The need for innovation as a rationale for government involvement in entrepreneurship (2009, background): “Second, environmental regulations retard the formation of new and small manufacturing establishments, but show little effect on larger entities (Dean et al. 2000).”
External Determinants and Financial Outcomes of an Eco‐friendly Orientation in Smaller Manufacturing Firms* (2016, background): “A number of studies (e.g., Dean, Brown, and Stango 2000; Petts et al. 1999; Williamson and Lynch-Wood 2001) also point to the fact that environmental regulations may pose a problem for small firms, in the sense that (1) it is not very clear and/or obvious what one is actually required to do,…”
Does the Porter Hypothesis Explain Expected Future Financial Performance? The Effect of Clean Water Regulation on Chemical Manufacturing Firms (2010, background): “A third set of empirical studies examines the effect of environmental regulation on firms’ location or investment decisions (McConnell and Schwab 1990; Levinson 1996; Becker and Henderson 2000; List et al. 2003; Dean et al. 2000).”