Environmental regulation: choice of instruments under imperfect compliance
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Environmental Regulation: Choice of Instruments under Imperfect Compliance∗
Compliance is an important issue in environmental regulation. We discuss some of the key elements of the problem and analyze a situation where emissions are not random and firms are risk-neutral. We study the firm’s decision on emissions and compliance when the environmental regulation is based on standards and the enforcement agency audits the firm with a certain probability. We compare total ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spanish Economic Review
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1435-5469,1435-5477
DOI: 10.1007/s10108-007-9025-3