. Regulation, tax, and Coasean exchange, such as through cap-and-trade regimes, are presented as substitutes, based on the relative …I examine Ronald Coase's criticism of standard regulatory and tax policies to address environmental externalities. I … for the costs of political bargaining and lobbying that arise from implementing and administering government regulation …

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 …

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 …

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