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The effect of inspector group size and familiarity on enforcement and deterrence

Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - 2013

The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...

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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation

Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …-term effects of enforcement. A simpler demand-side information campaign generates two-thirds of the gains compared to the most …

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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices

Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022

We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...

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Air pollution quotas and the dynamics of internal skilled migration in Chinese cities

Yu, Bo; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa - 2020

This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five-Year Plan on internal movements of high-skilled labour across Chinese prefecture cities. Using data on migration flows calculated through changes in Hukou status, this study suggests...

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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature

Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...

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Willingness to pay for carbon mitigation : field evidence from the market for carbon offsets

Rodemeier, Matthias - 2023

What do markets for voluntary climate protection imply about people's valuations of en- vironmental protection? I study this question in a large-scale field experiment (N=255,000) with a delivery service, where customers are offered carbon offsets that compensate for emissions. To estimate...

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility...

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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence

Falk, Armin - 2017

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual...

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Social norms or enforcement? : a natural field experiment to improve traffic and parking fine compliance

Sinning, Mathias; Zhang, Yinjunjie - 2021

government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement … enforcement letter is stronger than that of the social norms letter. Our analysis of heterogenous treatment effects indicates that … long outstanding debt and those with a debt above the median. In contrast, the enforcement letter is generally effective …

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Lending to the unbanked: relational contracting with loan sharks

Lang, Kevin; Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Xu, Haibo - 2020

We study roughly 11,000 loans from unlicensed moneylenders to over 1,000 borrowers in Singapore and provide basic information about this understudied market. Borrowers frequently expect to repay late. While lenders do rely on additional punishments to enforce loans, the primary cost of not...

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