Monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations. Lessons from a natural field experiment in Norway
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Relying on a small natural field experiment with random assignment of treatments, I estimate effects of three core elements of most monitoring and enforcement practices: self-reporting, audit frequency and specific deterrence. I find evidence of evasive reporting of violations in self-audits, as more violations are detected in on-site audits than in self-audits. Announcing the increased audit frequency has no effect on compliance, but an audit raises the firm’s subsequent compliance substantially.
Keywords: environmental regulation, enforcement, EPA, natural field experiment, random assignment ________ Sammendrag
Klima- og forurensningsdirektoratet (Klif) driver tilsyn med bedrifters overholdelse av ulike typer
miljøreguleringer. Tilsynet med deler av disse reguleringene er utført på en måte som gjør det mulig å
teste effekter av tilsynsvirksomheten. Ved å benytte dette lille, naturlig felteksperimentet med tilfeldig
trekking av tilsynstyper beregner jeg effekten av tre trekk ved de fleste tilsynsvirksomheter: selvrapportering,
kontrollhyppighet og individualavskrekking. Jeg finner klare tegn til unndragende
rapportering av avvik i egenkontroller, da flere avvik avdekkes i besøkskontroller enn i egenkontroller.
Å annonsere økt kontrollhyppighet har ingen effekt på overholdelsen av regelverket, men en kontroll
øker bedriftens etterfølgende overholdelse betydelig.
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Statistics Norway, Research DepartmentSeries
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