This article reviews the economics literature on monitoring and enforcement of
environmental policy. In the last few years there has been a rapid growth in both theoretical …

Without monitoring and enforcement, environmental laws are largely nonbinding guidance.
Although economists and philosophers have thought seriously about the broader public …

Although one of the main reasons why governments offer environmental subsidies to firms is
to encourage environmental innovation, the effectiveness of such measures is unclear. In …

This paper uses new survey evidence to analyze the effects of regulation, plant-level
management policies, and other factors on the environmental compliance of Mexican …

This paper tests whether adopting the international norm ISO 14001 significantly impacts
environmental performance in Quebec's pulp and paper industry. Using monthly data …

Only a limited number of papers haveempirically examined the determinants of
themonitoring and enforcement activities performedby the environmental regulator …

In environmental economics, monitoring and enforcement issues have attracted relatively
little research effort. Moreover, the bulk of the literature on these issues has been of a …

Empirical analyses on monitoring and enforcement issues have focused attention either on
studying the impact of traditional monitoring and enforcement practices on the …

This paper analyzes the regulatory factors that shape the level of environmental
performance at individual polluting facilities. In particular, it examines deterrence generated …

This paper investigates how industrial plants react to inspections conducted by
environmental authorities under the pollution levy (taxation) regulation in China. Contrary to …