• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations. Lessons from a natural field experiment in Norway
  • Contributor: Telle, Kjetil [Author]
  • imprint: Oslo: Statistics Norway, Research Department, 2012
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: H41 ; K42 ; EPA ; random assignment ; enforcement ; D21 ; environmental regulation ; natural field experiment ; C93 ; Q58
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  • Description: Relying on a small natural field experiment with random assignment of treatments, I estimate effects of three core elements of most monitoring and enforcement practices: self-reporting, audit frequency and specific deterrence. I find evidence of evasive reporting of violations in self-audits, as more violations are detected in on-site audits than in self-audits. Announcing the increased audit frequency has no effect on compliance, but an audit raises the firm's subsequent compliance substantially.
  • Access State: Open Access