Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155130 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 77. 2000
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
I model environmental overcompliance as a signalling device. In the model, a benevolent government may or may not tighten environmental standards. Production costs under the stricter environmental regulation are private information to the firms, and tightening environmental policy is socially desirable only if such costs are sufficiently low. The key assumption of the model is that firms differ in the cost of complying, and so those firms that enjoy a comparative advantage may actually benefit from tighter regulation. In these circumstances, such firms may overcomply in order to signal to the government that compliance costs are low, thus inducing the government to enforce stricter regulation.
Subjects: 
Environmental regulation
overcompliance
signalling
asymmetric firms
JEL: 
L13
K32
L50
Q20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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