Fighting Climate Change with Disclosure? The Real Effects of Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosure
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Keywords
Disclosure of non-financial information; greenhouse gas emissions; real effects;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
- Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
- M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
- M48 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Government Policy and Regulation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2019-03-18 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2019-03-18 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2019-03-18 (Regulation)
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