Economics

Compliance and enforcement: Air pollution regulation in the U.S. steel industry

Document Type

Article

Abstract

We use data on individual steel plants to study tile relationship between regulators' enforcement of air pollution regulations and firms' compliance decisions. We find the expected interactions between the decisions: at the plant level, greater enforcement leads to greater compliance, while greater compliance leads to less enforcement. We also test whether differences in firms' characteristics affect either compliance or enforcement decisions at the plant level, holding plant characteristics constant, and find that they seem to matter more for enforcement than for compliance.

Publication Title

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Publication Date

1996

Volume

31

Issue

1

First Page

96

Last Page

111

ISSN

0095-0696

DOI

10.1006/jeem.1996.0034

Keywords

pollution regulation, air pollution, steel plants, industry

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