Incentives for Pollution Control: Regulation or Information?

Foulon, Jérôme; Lanoie, Paul; Laplante, Benoı̂t

doi:10.1006/jeem.2001.1196

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“…Furthermore, the greater the fall in stock price, the larger the observed emissions reduction. Foulon et al (2002) find that in a set of 15 pulp and paper firms in British Columbia, appearance on the Ministry of Environment's polluters list strengthened the conventional enforcement strategies (fines and penalties) and provided strong incentives for pollution control.…”

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Public disclosure of industrial pollution: the PROPER approach for Indonesia?

López

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Afsah³

2007

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Program for Pollution Control Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) in Indonesia. PROPER, the first major public disclosure program in the developing world, was launched in June 1995; though it collapsed in 1998 with the Asian financial crisis, it is currently being revived. There have been claims of success for this pioneering scheme, yet little formal analysis has been undertaken. We analyze changes in emissions concentrations (mg/L) using panel data techniques with plant-level data for participating firms and a control group. The results show that there was indeed a positive response to PROPER, especially among firms with poor environmental compliance records. The response was immediate, and firms pursued further emissions reductions in the following months. The total estimated reductions in biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) were approximately 32%.

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Public disclosure of industrial pollution: the PROPER approach for Indonesia?

López

Sterner

Afsah³

2007

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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“…For example, in the U.S., all major sources (by Title V of the Clean Air Act) have to evaluate their own compliance status and submit certified reports. 7 This is a sensible hypothesis. Moreover, Macho-Stadler and Pérez-Castrillo (2006), applying a set-up close to the one analyzed here to environmental taxes, show that restricting attention to this class of policy is without loss of generality in many scenarios.…”

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“…I assume that the probability of being audited may depend on the firm's parameter λ but is independent of the report made by the firm. 7 When audited, the firm's true emissions are identified without error. 8 The firm may choose a report z that does not coincide with the true emission level e.…”

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Environmental regulation: choice of instruments under imperfect compliance

Macho‐Stadler

2007

SpanEconRev

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Compliance is an important issue in environmental regulation. We discuss some of the key elements of the problem and analyze a situation where emissions are not random and firms are risk-neutral. We study the firm's decision on emissions and compliance when the environmental regulation is based on standards and the enforcement agency audits the firm with a certain probability. We compare total emissions when environmental regulation is based on different instruments: standards, taxes, and tradable permits. We show that when compliance is an issue, environmental taxes are superior to the other instruments, and we analyze the (static) efficiency of the solution.JEL Classification numbers: K32, K42, D82.

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“…Looking at environmental policy in particular, regulators have linked enforcement systems with information programmes to uncover levels of environmental performance of polluters (Foulon, Lanoie, & Laplante, 2002;Hsu, 2015;Wang et al, 2004). Based on big data, more sophisticated climate change models have been developed to reduce the uncertainty surrounding decisions linked to mitigating and adapting to environmental changes (Larson, White, Gober, & Wutich, 2015).…”

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Big data analytics for mitigating carbon emissions in smart cities: opportunities and challenges

Giest

2017

European Planning Studies

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The paper addresses the growing scepticism around big data use in the context of smart cities. Big data is said to transform city governments into being more efficient, effective and evidencebased. However, critics point towards the limited capacity of government to overcome the siloed structure of data storage and manage the diverse stakeholders involved in setting up a data ecosystem. On the basis of this, the paper investigates the challenges city governments face when dealing with big data in the context of carbon emission reduction. Through the lens of the evidence-based policy and policy capacity literature, the cities of Copenhagen (Denmark), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Oxford (UK) and Vienna (Austria) are analysed. The cases reveal that the institutional complexity underlying big data integration limits local government capacity to set up data management structures that would allow further utilization of big data and that current solutions focus on local pilot sites and outsourcing of data analytics. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Incentives for Pollution Control: Regulation or Information?

Cited by 172 publications

References 22 publications

Public disclosure of industrial pollution: the PROPER approach for Indonesia?

Public disclosure of industrial pollution: the PROPER approach for Indonesia?

Environmental regulation: choice of instruments under imperfect compliance

Big data analytics for mitigating carbon emissions in smart cities: opportunities and challenges

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