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Rethinking Health-Based Environmental Standards

Livermore, Michael A. - 2014

Under the Clean Air Act, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to determine the stringency of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), arguably the most important federal environmental program, without considering the costs of achieving these standards. Instead, it...

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Flexible Environmental Regulation

Bennear, Lori Snyder; Coglianese, Cary - 2012

“Flexible regulation” might sound like an oxymoron but it has become a widely accepted catch phrase for a pragmatic approach to regulation that promises the achievement of important public policy objectives at relatively low cost. Given the growing interest in flexible regulation in recent...

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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited

Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The study not only considers the stringency but also the...

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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited

Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

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Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited

Yoon, Haeyeon - 2017

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A Prospective Look at Property Rights and Environmental Regulation

Eagle, Steven - 2012

This Article considers the future interaction of environmental regulation and private property rights, with an emphasis on climate change issues. It concludes that environmental issues not satisfactorily resolved at the federal level will lead to more state and local regulation that impinges on...

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Property Rights & Attitudes Toward Environmental Regulation : An Empirical Investigation

Metcalf, Cherie - 2012

Environmental regulation often involves the need to impose limits on the ways in which individuals can use their property. From municipal bylaws protecting urban trees, to greenbelt zoning and designation of land as critical habitat for endangered species, environmental restrictions can range...

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A Signalling Model of Environmental Overcompliance

Denicolò, Vincenzo - 2014

I model environmental overcompliance as a signalling device. In the model, a benevolent government may or may not tighten environmental standards. Production costs under the stricter environmental regulation are private information to the firms, and tightening environmental policy is socially...

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A Dissolving Paradox : Firms' Compliance to Environmental Regulation

Nyborg, Karine; Telle, Kjetil - 2004

theory, a result labeled the "Harrington paradox" in the literature. Enforcement data from Norway presented here appears, at … subject to credible threats of harsh punishment. This seems quite consistent with predictions from standard theory. Although … predicted by standard theory should be viewed with skepticism …

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Behavioral Instruments in Environmental Regulation

Rowell, Arden - 2019

This chapter briefly describes the use and usefulness of behavioral and psychological instruments in environmental regulation. Behavioral instruments — tools for regulating behavior that build on empirical research about how people actually behave — can contribute to environmental law in at...

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