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Main Title The reputational penalties for environmental violations /
Author Karpoff, Jonathan M.,
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Lott, John R.
Wehrly, Eric W.
Publisher [Social Science Research Network],
Year Published 2005
OCLC Number 62118156
Subjects Liability for environmental damages--United States ; Fines (Penalties)--United States ; Civil penalties--United States ; Offenses against the environment--United States
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=747824
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EJBM  KF1298.K37 2005 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 10/21/2005
Collation 33 pages ; 28 cm
Notes
Forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Economics. "This paper examines the sizes of the fines, damage awards, remediation costs, and market value losses imposed on companies that violate environmental regulations. Firms violating environmental laws suffer statistically significant losses in the market value of firm equity. The losses, however, are of similar magnitudes to the legal penalties imposed; and in the cross section the market value loss is related to the size of the legal penalty. Thus, environmental violations are disciplined largely through legal and regulatory penalties, not through reputational penalties."--Abstract.