Standards and the regulation of environmental risk
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Keywords
Standards; Environmental regulation; Asymmetric information; D62; Q53; L51;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
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