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Environmental regulation and enforcement Location: Lab 1 Session Chair: Christian Allen Vossler, University of Tennessee | |
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Reducing Overreporting in Wildlife Damage Claims: Harnessing the Power of Peer Information 1: University of Tennessee; 2: Renmin University of China; 3: Shandong University Countries worldwide have government programs that compensate landowners for damages from wildlife to crops, livestock, and property. As with other types of public insurance programs, when enforcement budgets are limited, this provides the opportunity for claimants to submit fraudulent reports which ultimately result in an inefficient use of funds. Wildlife damages tend to be spatially correlated, and in some circumstances neighbors or others who have suffered damages at a similar point in time will have better information than the authorities on the legitimacy of claims. With this idea in mind, this study uses theory and experiments to examine the potential for a new peer reporting mechanism (PRM), wherein peers vote on who to target for audit. We build theory models to compare the PRM with both random audits, and a competitive audit mechanism that assigns audit probabilities by a relative comparison of damage reports. Experimental findings confirm the PRM’s effectiveness in reducing overreporting, notably in the absence of explicit incentives for signaling to the authority the most noncompliant, and even when signaling itself is financially costly. | |