Can Consumers Enforce Environmental Regulations? The Role of the Market in Hazardous Waste Compliance
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Keywords
Commercial Environmentalism; Compliance; Enforcement; Hazardous Waste; Market Size; Competition;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2005-07-03 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2005-07-03 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-REG-2005-07-03 (Regulation)
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