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Air pollution 1 Location: Auditorium B: Frøystein Gjesdal Session Chair: Philipp Bothe, Paris School of Economics | |
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Public Environmental Complaints and Regulatory Intensity 1: Nanjing University, China; 2: University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; 3: University of International Business and Economics, China; 4: Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China Encouraging the public to report possible environmental violations can be a way to identify illegal polluting activity and subsequently improve the environment. However, responding to complaints is not costless and may divert limited resources away from other enforcement activities. This paper investigates the impact of China’s environmental complaints on the allocation and intensity of on-site inspections in Jiangsu Province. Estimating a Local Projection model, our results show that complaints trigger an immediate and sustained response from the regulator, increasing the probability that a firm is inspected by around 12.6 percentage points in the month the complaint is made and continuing to increase over the following two months. We find complaints do not significantly reduce the number of other types of inspections and may even increase the number of unplanned inspections, thereby increasing overall regulatory intensity. | |