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Publication - Policy Brief
Inducing Indian Plants to Abate Pollution (Policy Brief)
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Publication - Working Paper
Truth-Telling by Third-Party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms
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Data: Third-party environmental auditing
In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This article reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by altering the market structure for environmental audits of industrial plants to incentivize accurate...