Suppliers face increasing pressure from their customers to improve their environmental
performance. When firms downstream in the supply chain seek to achieve such …

This paper uses the dataset of Pollution Information Transparency Index covering 113
Chinese cities and the period of 2008–2011 to find out what contributes to different levels of …

Weak environmental regulatory institutions in developing countries often undermine
conventional command-and-control pollution control policies. As a result, these countries …

With more and more serious resource and environment issues in China, the upgradation of
industrial structure dominated by heavy industry is key to its sustainable development. In this …

Environmental information disclosure has been widely used as an approach of pollution
reduction. But its impact on firms' competitiveness is not adequately studied in the literature …

While theory suggests that information programs may correct market failures and improve
welfare, the empirical impacts of these policies remain undetermined. We show that …

Public disclosure programs that collect and disseminate information about firms'
environmental performance are increasingly popular in both developed and developing …

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national
environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of …

Virtually all US states have now created voluntary cleanup programs (VCPs), offering liability
relief and other incentives for responsible parties to remediate contaminated sites. We use a …

Policies that emphasize information provision are prominent and expanding. Yet their impact
on market outcomes remains largely undetermined. This paper examines empirically the …