This review discusses the role of road transport policies in achieving the European Union's
ambitious zero-emission target for the transportation sector by 2050 and provides an …

This article studies the introduction of an EU-wide emission standard on the automobile
market. Using panel data from 1998 to 2011, I find that firms decreased emission ratings by …

In 2008, Volkswagen introduced a new generation of “Clean Diesel” cars and heavily
marketed them to environmentally conscious US consumers. Unknown to the public, these …

Regulators often rely on regulated entities to self-monitor compliance, potentially creating
strategic incentives for endogenous monitoring. This paper builds a framework to detect …

New technologies allow perfect detection of environmental violations at near-zero marginal
cost, but take-up is low. We conducted a field experiment to evaluate enforcement of water …

A host of regulations should protect fish, a common-pool resource, from overexploitation, but
detecting violations of these regulations is challenging, both at sea and in port. We present a …

We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases
and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant …

I quantify the welfare and environmental gains and losses from a policy establishing an
environmental tax/subsidy for new cars in France in 2008. I estimate a structural model of …

In many settings, misaligned incentives and inadequate monitoring lead employees to take
self-interested actions. This paper identifies and quantifies the costs of this principal-agent …

We study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation.
Firms increase variable profits by violating regulation and reduce expected noncompliance …