Empirical Evidence on Environmental Performance and Operating Costs*
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We investigate how environmental performance affects operating costs using a sample of 785 U.S. firms for the period 2006 - 2014. Environmental performance is measured as the overall environmental score provided by Asset4. We find that better environmental performance is negatively associated with direct production costs, but increases overhead costs. Because direct production costs have a larger impact than overhead costs, aggregate operating costs decline as environmental performance improves. To deal with endogeneity and to interpret the results causal, we use an instrumental variables approach.
Keywords
Environmental performance; Natural Resource Based View; Operating Cost
Cite as
Koegst, J., & Guenster, N. (2017). Empirical Evidence on Environmental Performance and Operating Costs*. In Proceedings of the 2017 Corporate Responsibility Research Conference, Sevillia, Spanien. (accepted / in press (not yet published))Details
Publication type
Research article in proceedings (conference)
Peer reviewed
Yes
Publication status
accepted / in press (not yet published)
Year
2017
Conference
2017 Corporate Responsibility Research Conference
Venue
Sevillia, Spanien
Language
English