| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13238 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13238 |
| Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies | |
| Howard Chang; Hilary Sigman; Leah G. Traub | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-07-08 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Under most federal environmental laws and some health and safety laws, states may apply for "primacy," that is, authority to implement and enforce federal law, through a process known as "authorization." Some observers fear that states use authorization to adopt more lax policies in a regulatory "race to the bottom." This paper presents a simple model of the interaction between the federal and state governments in such a scheme of partial decentralization. Our model suggests that the authorization option may not only increase social welfare but also allow more stringent environmental regulations than would otherwise be feasible. Our model also suggests that the federal government may choose its policies so that states that desire more strict regulation authorize, while other states remain under the federal program. We then test this hypothesis using data on federal regulation of water pollution and of hazardous waste, which are two of the most important environmental programs to allow authorization. We find that states that prefer more environmental protection authorize more quickly under both policies. This evidence suggests that states seek authorization to adopt more strict policies instead of more lax policies compared to federal policies. |
| 主题 | Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13238 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570907 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Howard Chang,Hilary Sigman,Leah G. Traub. Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies. 2007. |
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| w13238.pdf（473KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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