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		| Gilles  Grolleau and Sana  El Harbi | 
	
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		| ''Why some countries adopt ecolabeling schemes in their regulatory arsenal and others do not?'' | 
	
		| ( 2008, Vol. 17 No.3 ) | 
	
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		| We use data to investigate econometrically the determinants of the adoption of ecolabeling schemes among countries. Our findings show that economic and political freedoms, innovation capacities and experience with other environmental voluntary approaches play a major, sometimes counter-intuitive, role to explain the diffusion of governmental ecolabeling programs. | 
	
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		| Keywords: Ecolabels  Diffusion  Environmental policy. | 
	
		| JEL: Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation: General H8 - Public Economics: Miscellaneous Issues: General
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		| | Manuscript Received : Jan 14 2008 |  | Manuscript Accepted : Jan 14 2008 | 
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