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

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

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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 paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by altering the market structur...

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Main Authors: Duflo, Esther, Greenstone, Michael, Pande, Rohini, Ryan, Nicholas
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013
Subjects:
Third-party auditing, environment and development, environmental regulation, information intermediaries, industrial pollution
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81785

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