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AUTHOR
Andrés García-reche
Evolution of innovation policy in Emilia-Romagna and Valencia: Similar reality, similar results?
Ingenio Working Paper Series.
What makes environmental performance differ between firms? Empirical evidence from the Spanish tile industry
Environmental performance is a matter of major concern both for policy makers and for firm managers. In this paper we interpret firms' environmental performance as their ability to reduce polluting wastes while maintaining observed levels of inputs and desirable outputs. Making use of data envelopment analysis techniques, we compute waste-specific environmental efficiency measures for a sample of ceramic-tile producers located in the eastern Spanish region of Valencia. Our results show that there exists substantial room for improving environmental performance, which would have highly beneficial consequences for the local environment. In a second stage of analysis, we find that affiliation …