研討日期

2003年9月27日上午10:00 ~ 13:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院第二教室

討論文獻

題目

作者

文獻出處

COMMUNITY BLOCKADE AND POLLUTION ABATEMENT

Tsung-Hisu Tsai

Jin-Li Hu

Leonard F.S. Wang

初稿

報告人

蔡宗秀

參加人員

黃鴻、林燕淑、邱俊榮、楊雅博、吳世傑、梁文榮、胡均立、蔡宗秀、鄭義暉、陳宏易、郭虹瑩、許淑女英、黃璀娟、吳芝文、郭子綾、蔡爵丞

討論提要

Recently, the role of community on pollution abatement is stressed in several empirical studies.  These papers however do not analyze the strategic behavior of the resident group and the polluting firm formally.  In this paper, we build a theoretical model to examine the effect of the resident group’s blockade threat on the firm’s pollution abatement and bribery behavior.  Our analysis confirms the empirical finding: When facing the resident’s group blockade threat, the firm will increase its pollution abatement and bribes payment.  Nevertheless, the effect of community pressure on pollution abatement should not be exaggerated.  Our analysis indicates that the community often has to pay a great amount of blockade social costs to trade the efficiency of blockade.  To improve environmental quality and to reduce the frequency of community blockade, we suggest the regulator enhance its capacity on public enforcement and to rise the ex post liability payment when a pollution accident happens.

延伸研究

1.          改進居民目標函數之設定。

2.          是否能找出反直覺的理論命題？

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