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Self-policing in a targeted enforcement regime
Southern Economic Journal
  • Sarah L Stafford, College of William and Mary
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2008
Disciplines
Abstract

This paper adds to the debate over whether self-policing can increase environmental protection by considering an issue that has been ignored in previous models-that self-policing may influence future enforcement. The model combines self-policing with targeted enforcement and allows for both deliberate and inadvertent violations. As expected, rewarding self-policers with more lenient future enforcement increases auditing, remediation, and disclosure of inadvertent violations. Self-policing can also serve as a complement to deliberate compliance and can thus further increase environmental performance. However, under reasonable conditions, self-policing can be a substitute for deliberate compliance and could therefore be detrimental to environmental protection.

DOI
10.2307/20112008
Citation Information
Sarah L Stafford. "Self-policing in a targeted enforcement regime" Southern Economic Journal Vol. 74 Iss. 4 (2008) p. 934 - 951
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sarah-stafford/12/