facilities with good compliance records may receive a smaller benefit than facilities with poor records. Additionally, facilities …

facilities’ long-term compliance with U.S. hazardous waste regulations. We also investigate the factors that affect facilities … account for the potential endogeneity of our audit measure and the censoring of our compliance measure using a censored … stringent regulations are more likely to audit; facilities with poor compliance records are less likely to audit. However, we …

inadvertent violations. Self-policing can also serve as a complement to deliberate compliance and can thus further increase … environmental performance. However, under reasonable conditions self-policing can be a substitute for deliberate compliance and …

To assess the role that consumers can play in encouraging environmental compliance, we examine the U.S. hazardous waste … compliance behavior. We find that noncompliance does decrease demand, at least in the short-term. While we do not find any … evidence that market size affects compliance, local competition does appear to increase compliance. However, as competition …