How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions in order to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do firm associations engage in environmental self-regulation and what kind of governance devices do they develop in order to tackle the...

This paper considers simultaneous estimation of the regression coefficients and baseline hazard in proportional hazard models using the maximum penalized likelihood (MPL) method where a penalty function is used to smooth the baseline hazard estimate. Although MPL methods exist to fit...

In technically complex areas, political actors increasingly rely on private actors to shape public policy. This is due to the greater expertise of the private actors, mostly industry. This article theorizes and empirically investigates the conditions under which self-regulation by industry...