Identification of the factors that affect the environmental administrative burden for businesses

Žiga Kotnik (Author), Maja Klun (Author), Renata Slabe Erker (Author)

Abstract

Environmental regulations bring social benefits and contribute to lessening environmental damage. At the same time, due to the rapidly changing and complex environmental legislation, businesses incur costs, including administrative burdens. The article presents quantitative evidence on the factors that affect the compliance costs of environmental regulations. For this purpose, we used a binary model of logistic regression with the following predictors: enterprise characteristics, the relevance of environmental regulations for business operations, and the impact of environmental stimulus measures on compliance costs. The results of the study suggest that medium-sized enterprises are less likely to experience the environmental administrative burden than small enterprises. However, no difference has been found between large and small enterprises. Further, we show that environmental consents are an important determinant of the environmental administrative burden and that financial environmental measures can have a positive impact thereon.

Keywords

trajnostni razvoj;varstvo okolja;podjetja;stroški;sustainable development;environmental protection;enterprises;costs;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2020
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	IER - Institute for Economic Research
UDC:	502.131.1:658
COBISS:	25119491
ISSN:	2071-1050
Views:	756
Downloads:	171
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Other data

Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	stroški uskladitve;okoljski predpisi;logistična regresija;birokracija;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Source comment:	art. 6555
Pages:	15 str.
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ12
Issue:	ǂart. ǂ6555
Chronology:	2020
DOI:	10.3390/su12166555
ID:	12704523