Pollution abatement costs, regulation, and plant-level productivity

Economic Costs and Consequences of Environmental Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 65-96

  Gray, Wayne B ^a,b   Shadbegian, Ronald J ^c  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

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