Learning about compliance under asymmetric information

Carmen Arguedas and Sandra Rousseau

Energy, Transport and Environment Working Papers Series from KU Leuven, Department of Economics - Research Group Energy, Transport and Environment

Abstract: TOver time, inspection agencies gather information about firms that cause harmful externalities. This information may allow agencies to differentiate their monitoring strategies in the future, since inspections can be influenced by firms’ past performance relative to other competitors in the market. If a firm is less successful than its peers in reducing the externality, it faces the risk of being targeted for increased inspections in the next period. This risk of stricter monitoring might induce high cost firms to mimic low cost firms, while the latter might try to avoid being mimicked. We show that under certain circumstances, mimicking, or even the threat of mimicking, might reduce socially harmful activities and thus be welfare improving.

Keywords: Monitoring and enforcement; externalities; learning; mimicking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 H83 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2008-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cta, nep-law, nep-mic and nep-reg
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