"Voluntary" approaches to environmental regulation

Economic Institutions and Environmental Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 75-120

  Lyon, Thomas P ^a   Maxwell, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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