Making things stick: enforcement and compliance
综述了环境政策执法方面的快速增长的文献,强调信息问题、处罚限制和企业的规避行为给监管机构带来的困难,并探讨了创新实施方法如何增强传统执法工具的效果。
Environmental rules and regulations are only useful insofar as firms can be persuaded to comply with them-in full or in part. We survey the rapidly growing literature on the enforcement aspects of environmental policy. The difficulties facing any regulatory agency are likely to be exacerbated by information problems, penalty constraints, and the evasion efforts of firms, and we emphasize the role that recent innovative approaches to implementation can play in bolstering more traditional enforcement instruments.