Americas Program Dissertation Enhancement Award: A Conceptual and Working Framework for Optimal Improvement of Environmental Protection: The Case of Mexico City Air

小行星9414497 这个美洲计划奖资助约翰·C·史密斯先生的论文增强研究。Marchelya，在John J. Boland博士和M.约翰霍普金斯大学的帕特里夏·费尔南德斯-凯利。该项目旨在制定一个决策框架，以经济上最佳的方式改善环境保护。他们的研究将调查墨西哥城工业空气污染的监管执法实践，并确定信息，政治和社会背景。 该框架是基于决策变量的两个代理商被认为是最负责任的延迟或推进环境保护：利润最大化的污染者和环境执法机构。深入了解他们的相互作用，他们的决策变量和这种相互作用的背景下嵌入的理论解决：（1）投资，（2）执法，（3）博弈论和（4）经济社会学。 这项研究将提供重要的见解和结论，以改善墨西哥的环境质量，这是有关美国的经济安全两国之间的环境标准的差异提供了竞争优势，这些行业位于执法薄弱的地区。 因此，监管执法成为影响两国竞争平衡的重要问题。 ***

9414497 Boland This Americas Program award funds dissertation enhancement research by Mr. John C. Marchelya, under the supervision of Dr. John J. Boland and Dr. M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly of Johns Hopkins University. The project intends to develop a decision framework for improving environmental protection in an economically optimal manner. Their study will investigate the practice of regulatory enforcement of industrial air pollution in Mexico City and determine the informational, political and social context. The framework is based on decision variables of the two agents considered most responsible for retarding or advancing environmental protection: a profit-maximizing polluter and an environmental enforcement agency. Insight on their interaction, their decision variables and the context in which such interaction is embedded is gained from theory addressing: (1) investment, (2) law enforcement, (3) game theory and (4) economic sociology. This research will provide insights and conclusions important to improved environmental quality in Mexico, which is pertinent to the economic security of the U.S. The differences in environmental standards between the two countries provide a competitive advantage to those industries located in areas that have weak enforcement. Regulatory enforcement thus becomes an important issue that affects the competitive balance between the two countries. ***