We show that websites' vendor use falls after the European Union's (EU's) General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR), but that market concentration also increases among …

Abstract The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses a dynamic approach to
enforcing air pollution regulations, with repeat offenders subject to high fines and …

This review surveys the growing literature on the econometrics of first-price sealed-bid
auctions and nonlinear pricing. The complexity of the economic models has initiated fruitful …

In the context of the era of common prosperity, this paper seeks to explore the influence of
human capital on the urban-rural income gap in China. To accomplish this, this paper …

Digital government transformation (DGT) is a major reform toward modernized governance.
It provides a new pattern to manage environmental pollution and promote sustainable …

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 …

Discretion given to local authorities is an essential feature when national governments
delegate enforcement of environmental regulations/laws to the local authorities …

We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers
exercise discretion over fines by deviating from statutory fine rules. Relying on variation …

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

We address empirically the issues of the optimality of simple linear compensation contracts
and the importance of asymmetries between firms and workers. For that purpose, we …