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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 655-681Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2003.10.004
Keywords
environmental; enforcement; monitoring; inspections; deterrence; wastewater; treatment; performance; compliance; municipal
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This paper analyzes the regulatory factors that shape the level of environmental performance at individual polluting facilities. In particular, it examines deterrence generated by actual government interventions, namely inspections and enforcement actions, performed at particular facilities. This paper also examines the deterrence generated by the threat of receiving an intervention. As important, it controls for differences in the issuance of pollution control permits that impose effluent limits on individual facilities. For this empirical analysis, it examines wastewater discharges by municipal wastewater treatment plants in the state of Kansas for the years 1990-1998. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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