Environmental R&D and the uncertainty of future earnings |
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Authors: | Derek Johnston |
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Affiliation: | Department of Accounting, Colorado State University, 256 Rockwell Hall, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States |
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Abstract: | This paper examines whether the variability in the future earnings stream generated by the investment in environmentally-related R&D projects is different than that created by the investment in other R&D projects. To carry out this investigation, I decompose total R&D expenditures into two components: those related to R&D projects aimed at reducing the firm’s costs to comply with environmental legislation (i.e., the environmental component), and those related to all other R&D projects, which are focused on increasing the firm’s revenues and/or decreasing its other operating costs (i.e., the residual component). As predicted, I find that the environmental component of R&D expenditures contributes significantly less to the variability of future earnings than the residual component. |
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