Unwatched pollution: The effect of intermittent monitoring on air quality

EY Zou - American Economic Review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
Intermittent monitoring of environmental standards may induce strategic changes in polluting
activities. This paper documents local strategic responses to a cyclical, once-every-six-day …

Environmental externalities of activism

P Akey, I Appel - Available at SSRN 3508808, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the effect of hedge fund activism on corporate environmental behaviors. Using
plant-chemical level data from the EPA, we find that activism campaigns are associated with …

Hazed and confused: the effect of air pollution on dementia

KC Bishop, JD Ketcham… - Review of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study whether long-term cumulative exposure to airborne small particulate matter (PM2.
5) affects the probability that an individual receives a new diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease …

The effects of increased pollution on COVID-19 cases and deaths

CL Persico, KR Johnson - Journal of environmental economics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The SARS-COV-2 virus, also known as the coronavirus, has spread around the
world. A growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness …

The impact of campaign-style enforcement on corporate environmental Action: Evidence from China's central environmental protection inspection

H Wang, C Fan, S Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Regardless of the implementation of central environmental protection inspection, a
campaign style enforcement, across China to address the upsurging environmental issues …

Sliding window-based machine learning for environmental inspection resource allocation

Q Zhou, S Qu, Q Wang, Y She, Y Yu… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Environmental regulation is pivotal in mitigating environmental risks and promoting
sustainable development, yet regulators frequently encounter resource constraints when …

The optimal choice of environmental tax revenue usage: incentives for cleaner production or end-of-pipe treatment?

B Liu, J Ge - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The environmental tax system is effective in pollution abatement. However, levying an
environmental tax may be detrimental to economic growth. Reasonable use of …

Criminal deterrence: a review of the missing literature

A Raskolnikov - Supreme Court Economic Review, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
This review of the criminal deterrence literature focuses on the questions that are largely
missing from many recent excellent and comprehensive reviews of that literature and even …

[HTML][HTML] Can public environmental concern inhibit the market entry of polluting firms: Micro evidence from China

W Du, M Li, Y Fan, S Liang - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
When constructing a multigovernance environment system, it is important to systematically
study the impact of the public's environmental concern on the behavior of polluting firms. In …

Monitoring for waste: Evidence from medicare audits

M Shi - The quarterly journal of economics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article examines the trade-offs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing
unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and …