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An Integrated Strategy to Reduce Monitoring and Enforcement Costs

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  • E. Hentschel
  • A. Randall

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A policy of effective environmental protection, inthe present political atmosphere, will requirelow-cost monitoring and enforcement (M&E) strategiesthat do not rely on draconian penalties. Infinite oreven very high penalties for environmental violationsare socially and politically unacceptable.Environmental violations are often classed as civiloffenses, and the occurrence of a violation may bethought insufficient to establish intent. If penaltiesare upper-bounded and each firm is inspected randomly,compliance cannot be maintained with arbitrarily smallinspection probabilities and, hence, small agencycosts. In this paper we examine possibilities forreducing agency M&E costs, including the requirementfor self-reports of effluents and the adjustment ofthe inspection probability to reflect a firm'scompliance or reporting reputation. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000

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  • E. Hentschel & A. Randall, 2000. "An Integrated Strategy to Reduce Monitoring and Enforcement Costs," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 15(1), pages 57-74, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:enreec:v:15:y:2000:i:1:p:57-74
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1008348915460
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