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
Repository Citation
Gray, Wayne B. and Deily, Mary E., "Compliance and enforcement: Air pollution regulation in the U.S. steel industry" (1996). Economics. 135.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_economics/135