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Compliance and Enforcement: Air Pollution Regulation in the U.S. Steel Industry
Wayne B. Gray,Mary E. Deily +1 more
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In this paper, the authors use data on individual steel plants to study the relationship between regulators' enforcement of air pollution regulations and firms' compliance decisions and find that at the plant level, greater enforcement leads to greater compliance, while greater compliance leads to less enforcement.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.The article was published on 1996-07-01. It has received 344 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Enforcement.read more
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Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
TL;DR: The authors synthesize the expanding corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature from an economic perspective and develop a CSR taxonomy that connects disparate approaches to the subject and explore whether CSR should exist and investigate conditions when CSR may produce higher welfare than other public good provision channels.
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Environmental Policy, Innovation and Performance: New Insights on the Porter Hypothesis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present three variants of the so-called Porter Hypothesis: the weak, narrow and strong versions of the hypothesis are tested using data on the four main elements of the hypothesized causality chain (environmental policy, research and development, environmental performance and commercial performance).
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Environmental innovation and environmental performance
TL;DR: In this article, a simultaneous panel data model of environmental innovation and toxic air pollution is used to identify bi-directional causal links between the two and find that environmental innovation is an important driver of reductions in US toxic emissions.
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The Effectiveness of Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
Wayne B. Gray,Jay P. Shimshack +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the existing empirical evidence on the impact of environmental regulations on pollution violations is reviewed and a review of the empirical evidence for the impact on pollution enforcement is presented, and the authors conclude that "regulatory punishment for pollution violation is a mainstay of nearly every industrialized nation's environmental policy".
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The Enforcement of Pollution Control Laws: Inspections, Violations, and Self-Reporting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide empirical evidence on the role of targeting in regulatory compliance and propose that self-reporting by a firm is used to demonstrate that firms are willing to cooperate.
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