Faculty & Research Published Research Research (-) Environmental Policy Facet Area of Focus - Research William Shobe Charles Holt Molly Lipscomb (-) Jay Shimshack Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Working Paper Environmental Policy Costly Sanctions and the Treatment of Frequent Violators in Regulatory Settings Authors: Jay Shimshack, Michael B. Ward Regulators typically treat frequent violators more harshly. When does such harsh treatment maximize overall compliance? Learn more Working Paper Environmental Policy Environment Spillovers: Lessons from Strategic Interactions in Regulation and Product Markets Authors: Jay Shimshack, Mary Evans, Scott Gilpatric We explore enforcement spillovers - when sanctions at one entity influence behavior at other entities. Our model illustrates when spillovers arise from a regulatory channel and when they arise from a channel not previously emphasized: product markets. Learn more Published Research Environmental Policy Environmental Enforcement and Compliance: Lessons from Pollution, Safety, and Tax Settings Authors: Jay Shimshack, James Alm Environmental monitoring and enforcement are controversial and incompletely understood. This survey reviews what we do and do not know about the overall effectiveness, as well as the cost effectiveness, of pollution monitoring and enforcement. Learn more
Working Paper Environmental Policy Costly Sanctions and the Treatment of Frequent Violators in Regulatory Settings Authors: Jay Shimshack, Michael B. Ward Regulators typically treat frequent violators more harshly. When does such harsh treatment maximize overall compliance? Learn more
Working Paper Environmental Policy Environment Spillovers: Lessons from Strategic Interactions in Regulation and Product Markets Authors: Jay Shimshack, Mary Evans, Scott Gilpatric We explore enforcement spillovers - when sanctions at one entity influence behavior at other entities. Our model illustrates when spillovers arise from a regulatory channel and when they arise from a channel not previously emphasized: product markets. Learn more
Published Research Environmental Policy Environmental Enforcement and Compliance: Lessons from Pollution, Safety, and Tax Settings Authors: Jay Shimshack, James Alm Environmental monitoring and enforcement are controversial and incompletely understood. This survey reviews what we do and do not know about the overall effectiveness, as well as the cost effectiveness, of pollution monitoring and enforcement. Learn more