Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill
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- Dietrich Earnhart & Sarah Jacobson & Yusuke Kuwayama & Richard T. Woodward, 2020. "Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill," Department of Economics Working Papers 2020-04, Department of Economics, Williams College.
- Earnhart, Dietrich & Jacobson, Sarah & Kuwayama, Yusuke & Woodward, Richard T., 2019. "Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill," RFF Working Paper Series 19-20, Resources for the Future.
- Dietrich Earnhart & Sarah Jacobson & Yusuke Kuwayama & Richard T. Woodward, 2019. "Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill," Department of Economics Working Papers 2019-11, Department of Economics, Williams College.
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