Dear Asseem, Kevin and colleagues,
I have previously criticized measurements of stringency of environmental
laws, and to this day, I do not think we have one that is rigorous
enough. How would we define stringency of environmental law? Number of
inspections of industrial plants per year? Re-incidence of inspection?
Amount of money paid per infraction (fine)?
When I wrote my doctoral dissertation I used a combined measure of
number of plant inspections and fines to assess Mexican environmental
regulatory pressure, but I acknowledged it was a very rough measure. I
agree with Kevin that EPI could be used, but I think we still are far
away from a solid measurement of regulatory stringency.
Yours,
Raul
Kevin Gallagher wrote:
A. Prakash
I think the best you can do with that and a grain of salt is Esty's
"Environmental Performance Index" at Yale:
http://epi.yale.edu/
Best
Kevin Gallagher
wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for cross-national data on stringency of environmental
laws and levels of carbon taxation. Any suggestions where I might
find such data?
Many thanks,
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