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Monitoring, Enforcement and Compliance Location: B004 Session Chair: Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics | |
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When The Eyes Are Closed: Strategic Interdependency Under Imperfect Monitoring 1: National University of Singapore; 2: Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 3: University of International Business and Economics This paper examines how disruptions in environmental monitoring reshape the behavior of both regulators and polluters in China. Leveraging outages in China’s national air quality monitoring network as a natural experiment, we find an 11% increase in SO2 emissions from polluters near affected air quality monitors, with emissions surging during outages and normalizing after monitoring recovery. Using geo-coded inspection records, we show that inspection intensity rises with observed pollution but drops sharply when monitoring fails. These results reveal coordinated behavioral shifts: local regulators retreat from enforcement, while firms exploit weakened oversight to emit more. Our findings highlight how transient information asymmetry destabilizes regulatory enforcement, facilitating a shift from static compliance to mutually reinforcing strategic behavior between local regulators and polluters. | |