'Many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip': Direct and indirect public policy incentives to improve corporate environmental performance

Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 88-142

  Johnstone, Nick ^a   Glachant, Matthieu ^b   Serravalle, Céline ^c   Riedinger, Nicolas ^d   Scapecchi, Pascale ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Institut National des Statistiques et Etudes Economique   (France)

^d French Ministry of Industry (SESSI)   (France)

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