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

9414497 Boland本美洲项目资助John C. Marchelya先生在约翰霍普金斯大学John J. Boland博士和M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly博士的指导下进行论文强化研究。该项目旨在制定一个决策框架，以最经济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监管执法的实践，并确定信息、政治和社会背景。该框架基于被认为对阻碍或推进环境保护负有最大责任的两个主体的决策变量：利润最大化的污染者和环境执法机构。他们的相互作用，他们的决策变量和这种相互作用嵌入的背景的见解是从理论解决：(1)投资，(2)执法，(3)博弈论和(4)经济社会学获得的。这项研究将为改善墨西哥的环境质量提供重要的见解和结论，这与美国的经济安全有关。两国之间环境标准的差异为那些位于执法不力地区的行业提供了竞争优势。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. ***