Unpacking the Green Box: Endogenous Preferences and Environmental Policy Stringency in European Countries. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5127265 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5127265
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19 février 2025
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Environmental policy stringency Individual environmental preferences inequality Environmental Kuznets Curve Institutional trust Political factors European Union -fin]Sujets proches
Environmental management--Government policy Environment and state Environmental control State and environment Environmental quality--Government policy Environmental protection--Government policyCiter ce document
Francisco Serranito et al., « Unpacking the Green Box: Endogenous Preferences and Environmental Policy Stringency in European Countries. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5127265 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5127265 », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.2139/ssrn.5127265
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This paper identifies the determinants of OECD Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) index using a panel of 21 European countries for the period 2009-2019. If there is a large literature on the macroeconomic, political, and social determinants of EPS, the people's attitudes or preferences towards environmental policies is still burgeoning. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to estimate the effects of people's awareness regarding environmental issues on the EPS indicator. Due to the endogeneity of preferences, we have applied an instrumental variable framework to estimate our empirical model. Our most important result is to show that individual environmental preferences do have a positive and significant effect on the level of EPS indicator once the endogeneity bias has been taken into account : on average, a rise in individual preferences of 1% in a country will increase its aggregate EPS indicator by at least 0.23%. Furthermore, it is worth noting that the channels through which individual environmental preferences influence the EPS primarily operate via market and technological instruments. In these two cases, the estimated elasticities are almost three times higher than on the aggregate index. Our results have important policy implications.
