Models of Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance with an Application to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Asbestos Standard

摘要

The main analytic contribution of the dissertation to the literature on social regulation is an exploration of how formal regulatory standards, with fixed performance requirements across plants regardless of cost, are translated in the enforcement process to incorporate cost-sensitivity in the standard-as enforced. Part I presents an overview of the major public, and in some cases, private interventions in the asbestos sector decision-making affecting health and related economic outcomes. It provides the context for the analysis in Part II, demonstrating that OSHA was the greatest regulatory threat to the industry, by far, until the end of the 1970s.