There are two commonly accepted views about command-and-control (CAC) environmental regulation. First, CAC delivers … examine India's experience and find evidence that CAC policies achieved substantial environmental benefits at a relatively low … cost. Constructing an establishment-level panel from 1998 to 2009, we find that the CAC regulations imposed by India …

In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency … these results and recover the full costs of environmental regulation, we model the regulatory process as a dynamic discrete … costs of environmental regulation are largely reserved for extremely polluting plants. Applying the cost estimates to the …

results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …

propose a structural estimation framework to evaluate the hypothesis, and estimate the parameters based on the customs data of …

India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from …