To comply or not to comply? Pollution standard setting under costly monitoring and sanctioning

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-168

  Arguedas, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Convex fines; Monitoring; Non compliance; Non gravity sanctions; Standards

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; POLLUTION; POLLUTION DETECTION; STANDARDS;

CONVEX FINES; LINEAR PENALTIES; NON-COMPLIANCE; NON-GRAVITY SANCTIONS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; POLLUTION LEVEL; POLLUTION STANDARDS; REGULATORY POLICIES;

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

ABATEMENT COST; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLLUTION MONITORING; REGULATORY APPROACH;

EID: 52549125993     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-007-9185-5     Document Type: Article

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