Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India*

In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This article reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by altering the market struct...

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Main Authors: Duflo, Esther, Greenstone, Michael, Pande, Rohini, Ryan, Nicholas
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115307
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-617X