Public environmental policy and corporate behaviour: Project background, overview of the data and summary results

Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-33

  Johnstone, Nick ^a   Serravalle, Céline ^b   Scapecchi, Pascale ^a   Labonne, Julien ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

^b Institut National des Statistiques   (France)

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