Institute of Standards (CNIS) to include enforcement and monitoring. CNIS has already begun working on the issue of compliance … efficiency performance. Less attention has been paid to monitoring and enforcement with a minimal commitment of resources and … establishment of a regularized monitoring system for tracking compliance with the mandatory standard and energy information label …

inputs that are likely to lead to environmental services. The paper examines the costs and benefits of monitoring these …

costs, the costs of monitoring them for compliance, or the costs of collecting penalties from noncompliant firms. Moreover …We consider the pricing of a uniformly mixed pollutant when enforcement is costly with a model of optimal, possibly … firm-specific, emissions taxes and their enforcement. We argue that optimality requires an enforcement strategy that …

emissions trading programs be designed and implemented to achieve full compliance, or does allowing a certain amount of … abatement costs, monitoring costs, and the expected costs of collecting penalties from noncompliant firms. Under common … penalty. However, one can design a policy that induces full compliance with a constant marginal penalty that meets the …

designs. Thus, the circumstances under which it is efficient to implement policies that do not motivate full compliance appear … regulators may conserve enforcement costs by implementing emissions taxes that firms evade. I demonstrate that a regulator can … use a firm’s tax evasion to reduce monitoring effort, but only if its monitoring strategy can be made an increasing …