Download or read book Essays on Environmental Policies and International Competitiveness written by Claire Brunel and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final chapter, co-authored with Arik Levinson, identifies the data and conceptual challenges of measuring the stringency of environmental policies, a central issue for any paper that studies the effects of environmental policies. In this paper, we also propose an improved emissions-based measure of stringency.