Regulatory Competition and Environmental Enforcement: Is There a Race to the Bottom?

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Regional variation in environmental inequality: Industrial air toxics exposure in U.S. cities (2014, background): “Furthermore, the environmental standards and their enforcement vary across States, and there is evidence that State policies may influence those of neighboring States (Fredriksson and Millimet, 2002; Konisky, 2007).”
Climate Regulatory Risks and Corporate Bonds (2020, positive): “We construct our measure of regulatory costs by employing methodology used in the political science literature (Konisky, 2007).”
Implementation of a multi-agent environmental regulation strategy under Chinese fiscal decentralization: An evolutionary game theoretical approach (2019, background): “, 2016), local government (LG) administrators regularly subsume the autonomy of local environmental regulators to collude with polluting industries in a quintessential “race to the bottom” (Konisky, 2007; Tao et al., 2009).”